By: John Twelve Hawks

Loved it.  I have to read the next two books of the trilogy.  1984 for 2010…

By: Ian Rankin

I didn’t really like this police procedural.  Long winded and meandering.  I agree with this reviewer from amazon:

“The Naming of the Dead,” at four hundred and fifty pages, could have been trimmed quite a bit. The plot is extremely busy, there are too many secondary characters, and the narrative quickly loses steam.

By:

Elizabeth Kostova

Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.

By: Stieg Larsson

Decent corporate crime/murder mystery.

By: Tana French

The character arcs were fairly well developed.  The story overall has mix of tragedy, procedure and psychology but very little compelling mystery.   The most interesting part of the story,  a case where 2 children went missing in the woods ~20 years before the story starts, went unresolved; it left me feeling as though the book ended abruptly with a lazy conclusion (meant to be intriguing).

By: Caleb Carr

Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else’s misfortune.

PythonTreemap

My PyQt treemap example.  It is based on the original work from the University of Maryland/HCIL:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/

I implemented the squarified, ordered and slice layouts.  Works for my needs…