A problem of a book addiction -or- Too many books, Too little time

I got on Amazon today to look for some possible gift ideas. I’ve spent the last half hour adding books to my wish list, about math.

A week or two ago I read a chapter from a book for homework in one of my classes. The chapter was great and I decided the rest of the book would be nice to read. So I spent about an hour adding books to my wish list, about learning theory and metacognition.

About a month ago I realized I was behind on a series or two. So I went to Amazon and realized I’m behind on more series than I thought. So I spent about an hour adding books to my wish list, from the children’s literature area.

It’s an addiction I tell you. You look at one book and there are five or six suggestions of books that other people who bought that first book also bought, so I look at those. I add a book to my wish list and there are suggestions of other books I might like, so I look at those.

My list is the most hodge-podge collection of books, but I know I’d get a kick out of all of them.

These are just the books on my list. I already ran out of book shelves at home and have to take books to work when I finish them.

Children’s Literature
-> Among the Free by Margaret Peterson Haddix
->Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Cliff Nielsen (Illustrator)-> Charlie Bone And The Castle Of Mirrors by Jenny Nimmo
-> Charlie Bone And The Hidden King by Jenny Nimmo
-> Crispin: At the Edge of the World by Avi
-> Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
-> Eldest by Christopher Paolini
-> Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction by Lloyd Alexander, et al.
-> Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
-> Gossamer by Lois Lowry
-> The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
-> The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
-> The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer
-> The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Education
-> Experience And Education by John Dewey
-> How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice by National Research Council (Corporate Author), et al.
-> How We Think by John Dewey
-> Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers’ Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) by Liping Ma
-> Metacognition in Educational Theory and Practice (Educational Psychology Series) by Douglas J. Hacker (Editor), et al.
-> The Jossey-Bass Reader on Technology and Learning by Jossey-Bass
-> The Process of Education, Revised Edition by Jerome Bruner
-> The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World’s Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom by James W. Stigler, James Hiebert
-> To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher by William Ayers, Gloria Ladson-Billings (Foreword)

Math
-> An Imaginary Tale: The Story of i [the square root of minus one] by Paul J. Nahin
-> God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History by Stephen W. Hawking
-> History of Pi
-> The Divine Proportion by H. E. Huntley
-> The Geometry of Art and Life by Matila Ghyka
-> The Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Numbers by R. A. Dunlap
-> The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World’s Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio
-> To Infinity and Beyond by Eli Maor
-> Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
-> e: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor

Quilting
-> Every Quilt Tells a Story by Helen Kelley
-> That Dorky Homemade Look: Quilting Lessons from a Parallel Universe by Lisa Boyer

Random
-> History of My Life (Volumes I & II) by Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova, Willard R. Trask (Translator)
-> The Lost Language of Symbolism: An Essential Guide for Recognizing and Interpreting Symbols of the Gospel by Alonzo L. Gaskill

Science
-> A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
-> The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene (Author)