What book/books are you reading right now?
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Re-listening to Deep Work and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.
Actually reading YDKJS - Scope & Closures from Kyle Simpson.
Big fan of “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck”
I've read this book travelling India last summer, must read !
I am re-reading Deep Work and reading Digital Minimalism for the first time
I've recently read Digital minimalism and Essentialism :D They go very well hand in hand, one targeted "mainly" to your digital life and the other to your whole approach in life.
These are my next month reads. Really looking forward to them! Got more into those topics in the last couple month.
+1 for The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.
Read both. Very good books.
I'm currently reading the first two, but for the first time.
A bit related -- I liked Sarah Knight's The Life Changing Magic Of Not Giving A Fuck.
Listening to Ender's Game on Audible. It's pretty good; I'd recommend it.
The Ender's series/branch/tree? is pretty vast, but I really enjoyed Ender's game, and Ender's Shadow.
I really liked the one with the piggies. Whatever one that is.
Speaker for the dead, the sequel to Ender's game.
I thought it was good also.
Can't go wrong with Orson Scott Card!! One of my fav sci-fi authors, I never tried audiobooks, I think this is going to be my first.
Great book! Love it!
It is one of the best read audiobooks that I've ever listened too. It comes off as practically being acted out.
the ultimate hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
I read this in 8th grade, but wouldn't mind reading it again.
wow! in 8th grade i was trying to wrap my head around "the road not taken"
Classic! :D
yes, i heard a lot about it in those "must read books" blogs. thought i'll give it a try and it's really good
Nice one 😁 That's on my shelf too! But haven't read it yet :(
please do! the sarcasm and wit level is off the charts
Spaceman by Mike Massimino: The journey of an astronaut coming from a totally ordinary background. Very inspiring.
Educated by Tara Westover: Born to survivalists in the mountains, she lived off the grid for the first 17 years of her life. She then began to educate herself, learned enough math and grammar to get accepted by an university. She then travel the world and goes on an adventure that changes her life. I am just at the beginning of the book, but I just can't put the book down.
I read Educated earlier this year and found the same thing. Once I started it was impossible to put down. The book has lots of simple details that add so much color to her world.
Educated sounds like an interesting read. I'd check it out.
I got it from Bill Gates yearly reading list. You're hardly wrong with that list. Enjoy!
I'm reading "Where the Crawdad Sings" and "The Power of Habit" right now (I have one Audible and one paper book going at a time). I also keep a thread on twitter with stuff I've currently read with mini-reviews!
I couldn't put "Where the Crawdad Sings" down!
The Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer. A series of four books with two currently released. I'm reading the third right now and like it quite much. It's an interesting take on Scifi with new social structures and such and not too far in the future.
I'm also reading The Business Value of Developer Relations by @mary_grace because I have to make a social media plan for a dev-rel position I want to start.
I can't wait to hear what you think about it! I'm always happy to answer additional questions :)
Been in a bit of a crabby mood toward the "traditional" workplace lately, so I've circled back to three of my standbys:
And since my doctor recently gave me a hard time about my carb'tastic eating habits and sedentary desk job, I'll probably pick up one more title for motivation:
I just finished reading The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal. It's a sci fi fiction of an alternate universe where a meteorite hits the Earth (Washington, DC specifically) and causes huge climate changes that will make the Earth inhabitable in a few years. The only solution? Colonizing space!
The book features a lot of well-written and brilliant female pilots, computers, physicists and astronauts.
This book is soooo good. I loved it.
It was great 😄 did you get a chance to read its sequel?
No, it sounded interesting, but I like the book so much stand alone, I don't want to know what happens next.
But it ended with such a cliffhanger! 😲
As far as I know the second book is out and the third one will be out in 2020. So I'll wait until then to read the two back-to-back.
Listening to "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
and reading The Linux Solution: How to Build and Support Scalable IT Systems using the Power of LINUX by Keith Edmunds
Homo Deus and My Hero Academia Vol 1. Only ever really been into Dragon ball anime until recently so trying feed the gap between Super manga releases. Also really enjoyed Sapiens, some fascinating stuff in both those books
Oh yey manga!
I'm studying-up to be a D&D Dungeon Master for a new campaign I'm doing with my coworkers, and am reading through the Dungeon Master's Guide and the Curse of Strahd campaign book.
I've the Guide too! It's worth every penny.
I've somehow never read Stephen King before so I'm jumping right into the deep end and reading the Stand. 400 pages in and I've barely made a dent, but am enjoying it thus far!
I'm not a fan of Stephen King but I can recommend the Dark Tower series. I loved those books.
I'm definitely interested in getting into the Dark Tower series. It's actually what led me to the Stand, because of how so many of his other novels tie into the multiverse.
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Oh Interesting! I'll add it to the shopping list :D
If i may recommend one Stephen King book, it is Revival.
Pragmatic Programmer is on my list to get to somewhere.
How is “The Go Programming Language”? I haven’t written any Go in over a year but I keep re-reconsidering trying it.
At this moment, I'm really enjoying The Pragmatic Programmer, probably one of the best tech books I've ever read.
Now The Go Programming Language is a really good book. You don't need to read it from start to end (In fact, Authors recommend the opposite in the book and invite you to jump around the chapters).
The thing I like the most about Go is their documentation, but I started to read this book because of his authors (I did read loooong time ago The C programming Language) and I'm glad I bought it, but if you only are in that phase of wanting to try again, maybe is not necessary spend money in a book, just the official docs can do the trick.
Re-listening to Seanan McGuire's October Daye series because I wish I could live in Seanan's version of San Francisco.
Physically rereading Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
NVC is great for learning communication skills for diverse work places. (It's also just a really good book.)
I'm reading
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems (Martin Kleppmann)