An attempt of keeping what I read and I’m reading in a simple way :)

Currently Reading

  • “Database Internals: A Deep Dive Into How Distributed Data Systems Work” by Alex Petrov [P][TC]
  • “Mercenary’s Star” by William H. Keith, Jr. [E][SF]
  • “Cibola Burn” by James S. A. Corey [A][SF]
  • “Java Memory Management” by Maaike van Putten, Seán Kennedy [E][TC]
  • “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code” by Martin Fowler [P][TC]

Read

(Roughly in reverse chronological order)

2024

  • July
    • “The Word for World Is Forest” by Ursula K. Le Guin [P][SF] - Recommended!
  • June
    • “Blockchain Radicals” by Joshua Dávila [A][TC] - Recommended!
  • May
    • “Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present” by Yanis Varoufakis [P][NF] - Okay
    • “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space” by Carl Sagan [A][NF] - Recommended!
    • “The Three-Body Problem” by Liu Cixin [E][SF] - Okay
  • April
    • “Abaddon’s Gate” by James S. A. Corey [E][SF] - Recommended!
    • “The Science of Storytelling” by Will Storr [A][NF] - Okay
    • “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” by Carl Sagan [A][NF] - Recommended!
    • “Red Team Blues” by Cory Doctorow [E][OF] - Okay
  • March
    • “Aurora” by Kim Stanley Robinson [E][SF] - Recommended!
    • “Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 166, March 2024” [E][SF] - Interesting
    • “British Rail” by Christian Wolmar [P][NF] - Interesting
    • “London’s Underground: The Story of the Tube” by Oliver Green [P][NF] - Interesting
    • “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism” by Yanis Varoufakis [P][NF] - Interesting
    • “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig [P][OF] - Okay
  • February
    • “Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games” by J. Robert Lennon, Carmen Maria Machado [P][NF] - Avoid :/
    • “Doing Time” by Jodi Taylor [P][SF] - Okay
    • “Caliban’s War” by James S. A. Corey [P][SF] - Recommended!
  • January
    • “The Revolutionary Ideas Of Karl Marx” by Alex Callinicos [P][NF] - Recommended!
    • “All Systems Red” by Martha Wells [P][SF] - Okay
    • “The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England” by Brandon Sanderson [P][SF] - Interesting
    • “Leviathan Wakes” by James S. A. Corey [P][SF] - Recommended!

Stats for 2024 (so far):

  • Total: 22
    • Type: 13 [P]; 5 [E]; 4 [A]
    • Category: 10 [SF]; 2 [OF]; 1 [TC]; 9 [NF]

Tags:

  • Book Type:
    • [P] - Physical / Paper
    • [E] - E-Book / Virtual
    • [A] - Audiobook
  • Book Category:
    • [SF] - Science-Fiction
    • [OF] - Other Fiction
    • [TC] - Tech-Related
    • [NF] - Non-Fiction but not mainly Tech-related