Books on order

[mdlbear]

So, I ordered three books today from Powell's. All are, in one way or another, related to the River:

1. In Quest of the Mythical Mate by Ellyn Bader - recommended by my therapist.
2. You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen - recommended in a comment.
3. A Girl's Guide to Dating a Geek by Omi Inouye - for competative analysis. Ran across this at ThinkGeek; based on the blurb and the author's website, I expect it to be lightweight, ostensibly funny, and useful primarily in the "I can do better than that" sense.

Should be arriving in a week or so.

Comments

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Never underestimate the utility of "I can do better than that." It has gotten me started on many an intimidating project.

[mdlbear]

I am alternately encouraged and highly skeptical of my ability to write a self-help book for geeks and partners of geeks, but having a bad example to compare it to can't possibly hurt.

"I can do better than that" is also a large part of the motivation for most of the software I'm using. (With the software I write it's more likely to be "nobody does it the way I want to".)

[chaoswolf]

Could I borrow the Girl's Guide to Dating a Geek when you're done? I need to see if there's a chapter on blanket arguments.

[mdlbear]

Sure. Likely to be more amusing than helpful, but you're welcome to look.