The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England. Not sure what I'll read after. I was at a bit off a loss after reading race after technology.
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#62Actively reading:
- The Fountainhead
- Project Hail Mary
- Learning TypeScript
Passively reading:
- The Design of Everyday Things
- Dive into Design Patterns
Considering to read - This is mostly for anyone who has read them and would like to give their opinion about it.
- Algorithms to Live By
- Name of the Wind
- Malazan Book of the Fallen
- Good Girl's guide to murder
- The Paradox of Choice
- Moonwalking with Einstein
- The Boron Letters
- Storyworthy
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#63The series Darkover from Marion Zimmer Bradley.
It's more science fiction than my normal pick of fantasy, but nice reads.
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#64H. P. Lovecraft
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#65Just finished The Song of the Cell, currently reading Gravity’s Rainbow (lol) and starting The Horse, the Wheel, and Language.
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#66I bought a copy of Ben Hur in a second hand store for 3 dollars. The book was printed in 1887 and you can se it has been read by a lot of people and has been repaired at least once. I am hoping I can stick with it and finish it. Wish me luck.
Good luck! Please do pass long as soon as you finish it to people interested in reading it.
I have old books in my native language and some other languages inherited from my parents and grandparents and I have to find people to pass along as libraries will not take it because they don't have space or demand for it.
But when I find people who are interested in those topics, their eyes lit up when I pass along those books. I hope they cherish those books.
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#67- "Going Infinite", by Michael Lewis
- "Speed & Scale", John Doerr
- "Superintelligence", by Nick Bostrom
All great reads, strongly recommended.
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#68I’m on a bit of a “Big American Corruption” spree after finishing Succession so i’ve started “The Dark Side of Camelot” about the dirty dealings of the Kennedy family.
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#69Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Also got a few print issues of Lapham's Quarterly, so checking those out.
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#70I'm learning about US history as a non-American, for no particular reason other than I found some books in a second hand store.
- "1776", by David McCullough - a combination of American Revolution history with telling of leadership in times when defeat seems inevitable.
- "Team of Rivals", by Doris Kearns Goodwin - just started, reading about the pre-Civil War politics.