Books

My books about greenkeeping, turfgrass science, and clipping volume.

These are the books I finished reading, for the first time, in 2023. I’ve included a few notes. Breasts and Eggs, by Mieko Kawakami. I quite enjoyed this one. It was my favorite this year.

These are the books I finished reading, for the first time, in 2022. I’ve included a few notes. Crossroads, by Jonathan Franzen. This was a good read. Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee.

These are the books I finished reading, for the first time, in 2021.1 The list has more literature than I had been reading, and some great practical books. I’ve included a few notes.

These are the books I finished reading, for the first time, in 2020. I’ve added a few notes about my favorites … It will be difficult to beat Hemingway, Hitler, and Bridge to the Gods.

I started using R in 2011. I’ve read some books, done a lot of Google searches, read a lot of questions and answers that turned up on stackoverflow after executing those searches, and read a lot of blog posts and package vignettes and manuals and documentation.

These are the books I finished reading in 2019. And notes about my favorites. Ten Years in Japan by Joseph Grew. Grew was the US ambassador to Japan from 1932 until the war.

Writing is difficult. This week it has been especially so, and I’ve been reading instead. This is what’s on my desk tonight.

Bangkok is a big city, and I enjoyed this view of it for the past few months. There are big buildings in all directions, but this direction has the most.

I’ve been working on the Micah no jikan book for a long time. I am happy to report that all the final changes and edits have been made, and it is now with the publisher.