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 📚.

Started reading: Middlemarch by George Eliot 📚.

Finished reading: First Love, by Joyce Carol Oats. What a precisely rendered master crafted gut punch. Loved it.

Started reading: First Love, by Joyce Carol Oats. 📚

Finished reading: The Mythical Man-Month, by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. I liked the insights into managing software, and the time traveling to the computing industry circa 1975–1995. Took me 1 month and 6 days.

“Read” the short story The Simplest Equation by Nicky Drayden, via Levar Burton Reads. Really beautiful. 📚

“Read” River’s Giving by Heather Shaw, Tim Pratt, and River Shaw over on LeVar Burton Reads. Cute, all ages holiday fantasy story.