📚 Started reading: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers. This one wasn’t on my radar at all, but a friend had an extra copy, and I’m intrigued!
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📚 Finished reading: Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke. What a beautiful, riveting, and emotional journey, all told through journals!
📚 Started reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. I read Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell years ago and enjoyed it, so am really excited for this one.
📚 Finished reading: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Nihilistic, weird, brutal, and well observed. I really liked it.
📚 Started reading: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. One of those books I never read. This is one of those books I probably wouldn’t have appreciated when they were required reading, but am loving now.
📚 Finished reading: Sourcery: A Discworld Novel. As with any Discworld novel, its total escapist fun, with the problems of the real world layered in. Some of the probably-progressive-seeming-at-the-time characterizations of Conina could be left back in 1988, but overall really enjoyable.
📚 Started reading: Sourcery: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett.
📚 Finished reading: Bea Wolf, by Zach Weinersmith and illustrated by Boulet. An adaptation of Beowulf for children, and absolutely delightful.
📚 Finished reading: But now am found, by Patricia Horvath. Beautiful short story collection, each a compact gut punch.
📚 Started reading: But Now Am Found by Patricia Horvath.
📚 Finished reading: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. Breezy fun for people who like to think.
📚 Started reading: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi.
📚 Finished reading: A Subversive’s Guide to Improvisation by David Razowsky. It took me about a month. I found the biography section pretentious and long winded, but found the improv philosophy and practices inspiring.
📚 Started reading: A Subversive’s Guide to Improvisation by David Razowsky.
📚 Finished reading: Responsible JavaScript by Jeremy Wagner. Good quick read on performance and minimizing JS, and I learned a few things. Felt good to know a lot of it and/or agree on the philosophy already.
📚 Started reading: Responsible JavaScript by Jeremy Wagner.
📚 Started reading: The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018).
📚 I did not finish: Middlemarch by George Eliot. I got a bit over 200 pages in, and while I did really enjoy a lot of it, the whole thing is just too floridly Victorian for me at the moment.
📚 Finished reading: HTTP Pocket Reference by Clinton Wong, in one day. ETags, anyone?
📚 Started reading: HTTP Pocket Reference by Clinton Wong. Published in 2000, it’s still a good refresher, although distressingly it omits status code 418.