Tag: reading
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Reading 2025
I read 37 books from 21 different authors, 15 of the books were rereads of books I’ve read in previous years I’ve now read the nine full books of the First Law series and enjoyed every one of them. The first trilogy is still the stand-out though. I love the character arcs, the subverted expectations…
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Reading 2024
I think I read thirty nine books from twenty five different authors, though Good Reads thinks I read 41 books and has listed 39. Twelve of the books were rereads of books I’ve read in previous years, mostly the Song of Ice and Fire series and The Stormlight Archive, as I planned last year. Reading…
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Reading 2023
I read 14,936 pages across twenty six books from fourteen authors. Four of the books were rereads of books I’ve read in previous years. I finished reading the Wheel of Time series that I started last year. I enjoyed the series as a whole. It was a bit of a slog in places though and…
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Reading 2022
I’m inspired this year by one of my colleagues to do a little more than just a list of their books and a brief thought. I read 23,154 pages across fifty books from twenty-nine authors. 13 of the books were rereads of books I’ve read in previous years. I really enjoyed reading the Kingkiller Chronicles…
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Reading 2021
Shiang: Empire of Salt book II by Conn Iggulden, second part of the trilogy I started reading at the end of last year. The Sword Saint: Empire of Salt book III by Conn Iggulden Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. This felt big. Henry VIII is kind of a big deal in British history, his marriages…
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Reading 2020
Used to spend my commute reading, which obviously didn’t happen after March. I read a bit less fiction this year and hardly any re-reads. First Law: The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. really well written, classic fantasy. Loved this and the direct sequel. The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. Interesting sci-fi, loved the human computer. follow…
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Weeknotes: 9th-15th March
I’ve been concentrating a lot on catching up on various things, lots of odds and ends to tidy up. I’ve also been concentrating on my leadership course. At the prompt of the leadership course, I read Dan Pink’s Driven in preparation for a talk on motivation I’m doing. His theories about motivation really chime with my experience:…
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Reading 2019
Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson – short story from the Stormlight Archive Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwall – really good historical fiction, some of Cornwalls output seems a little formulaic but this standalone novel felt really imaginative. Codebreakers Secret History – massively comprehensive book covering cryptography until about 1960 (post-enigma computer cryptography is covered only in the…
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The Soul of a New Machine
I’ve just finished reading The Soul of a New Machine by Tracey Kidder. It’s a brilliantly written non-fiction account of creating a new computer in the late 70s under massive time constraints. It describes the characters involved, their leadership styles and creative processes, and has a healthy but very readable dose of technology. Lots of it really…
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Reading 2018
Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Dick – fantastic, though ending let it down slightly. World War Z by Max Brooks – unusual format – a series of fictional interviews. Nice take on zombie fiction though. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson. Gripping This is the Way the World…
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