While I don’t have the time to write some more thorough reviews, let me just get some of the current stuff I’ve read out of the way:

Eragon

I’ve just finished reading the first book of the series, got the next one already downloaded on Kindle. I really liked the book, and I’ve high expectations for the remaining ones in the series. My only complaint is that Paolini tries too much to look like a veteran writer, and this shows in his choice of words and the construction of his phrases. This is mostly related to immaturity I believe, and much like J.K. Rowling I expect him to improve his writing skills on the next books.

One Jump Ahead: Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers

This is an amazing account of the development of the Chinook software, a Checkers playing engine that was developed by Jonathan Schaeffer and his team. I seriously recommend this one, specially to those interested in Artificial Intelligence for Games and the level of dedication required to achieve an almost-perfect engine. Though the book discusses several technical topics, they are always properly introduced so it should be pretty easy to follow. The same goes for Checkers, which I actually found out is not as easy as I had previously thought.

Bossypants

This is Tina Fey’s autobiography. Being a huge fan of her work, I thought this would be an amazing read, but she puts so much emphasis on sarcasm that I actually stopped halfway through this one.

I really honestly thought it would be much better given the fact I love Tina's writing on 30 Rock and others, but after going over some 15 or 16 chapters I just got fed up with the huge amount of sarcasm. It does provide a few funny moments, and it might even get better towards the end if you stick with it, but I didn't.

The Steve Jobs Way

Though it describes itself as focusing on the leadership skills of Steve Jobs, this book is actually a biography/mythology in disguise.

It does provide a nice account of the history of Apple, including detailing some of the detours from Jobs at NeXT and Pixar. But it markets itself as a view into the leadership ways of Steve Jobs, and though it does mention lots of tidbits related, most of the time it just ends up as some sort of shrine for him: "only Steve Jobs could have done this", "only Steve Jobs could have thought this", etc.

I haven't read it yet, but I bet Isaacson's official biography is probably a much better read than this, both for people interested in his life and for people interested in his leadership skills.

Founders at Work

This is a collection of interviews with Startup founders. They really go into the details of their beginnings and give plenty of advice for wannabes, while keeping a extremely light mood. This is one of those books which you can always go back to, rereading one or another interview (much like its companion Coders at Work).

Can’t recommend this one enough, hopefully more people in the “Startup scene” will read and learn something from it.