Books · @Jason’s Microblog!

… “there is no such thing as the essential spirit of a text, because what is “essential” will vary from person to person. it is, again, all interpretation.”

Notes on adaptation, https://www.tumblr.com/trans-elrond/722964776975728640/a-general-reply-to-people-in-the-notes-assigned

#Books #Films #Media #Adaptation

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“i will start and not finish whatever the fuck i want”, is exactly the thing I needed to hear today :)

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via DD’s Tumblr (#DianeDuane)

#Reading #Writing #Books #Creativity #Arts

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Here’s what I read last month

Head First Go, Jay McGavren
The Rest is History, The Roman Conquest of Britain, Episodes 499-502
All Systems Red, Martha Wells
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells
Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells
Exit Strategy, Martha Wells
Network Effect, Martha Wells
Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells
System Collapse, Martha Wells
Grit, Angela Duckworth
The Art of Resilience, Ross Edgley
When the World Screamed, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Disintegration Machine, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Captain of the Polestar, Arthur Conan Doyle
Playing With Fire, Arthur Conan Doyle
How It Happened, Arthur Conan Doyle
One Crowded Hour, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Fall of Lord Barrymore, Arthur Conan Doyle
Dreams With Sharp Teeth, Harlan Ellison & Erik Nelson
A Rare Benedictine, Ellis Peters
A Morbid Taste for Bones, Ellis Peters
Once Corpse Too Many, Ellis Peters
Monk’s Hood, Ellis Peters
Saint Peter’s Fair, Ellis Peters
The Leper of Saint Giles, Ellis Peters
The Sealed Room, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost Special, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sanctuary Sparrow, Ellis Peters
Github Actions in Action, Michael Kaufmann, Rob Bos & Marcel de Vries
Strange Beasts, Susan J. Morris
Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie
Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go, Ricardo Gerardi
Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie
The Devil’s Novice, Ellis Peters
Dead Man’s Ransom, Ellis Peters
The Pilgrim of Hate, Ellis Peters

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/2024/

#mjbReads #Books #mjbBooks #Reading #mjbReading

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You should write in your #Books

— Ben Orlin

#Reading #Notes #Learning #NoteTaking

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Fellow #Programmers, #Coders (and possibly #Mathematicians) lend me wisdom!

I’m learning from books and I “know” the best way to learn from them is to work through them. But what I don’t know is how I’m doing. I’m often frustrated at my pace, since I don’t know what normal is.

And I need to learn stuff, to land a job. (I’m old. I want to pivot into a remote job, ergo devops. Anyway, that’s enough about me.)

So here’s the question(s),

How long do you take to work through a new text / proof / new book on a new topic that you don’t know?

How long did it take you (if you remember) when you were just starting out?
Were you doing this on your own?
Were there other people / things / places that aided you?

Please boost, to help a slow learner?! Thank you!

#Coding #Maths #Books #Workbooks

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