Such a good list!
#Books #Reading
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/02/booklish/





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#books, #reading


… “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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#books, #films, #media, #adaptation


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


https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/765964861184278528


via DD’s Tumblr (#DianeDuane)


#Reading #Writing #Books #Creativity #Arts





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#DianeDuane, #reading, #writing, #books, #creativity, #arts


Here’s what I read last month


  1. Head First Go, Jay McGavren
  2. The Rest is History, The Roman Conquest of Britain, Episodes 499-502
  3. All Systems Red, Martha Wells
  4. Artificial Condition, Martha Wells
  5. Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells
  6. Exit Strategy, Martha Wells
  7. Network Effect, Martha Wells
  8. Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells
  9. System Collapse, Martha Wells
  10. Grit, Angela Duckworth
  11. The Art of Resilience, Ross Edgley
  12. When the World Screamed, Arthur Conan Doyle
  13. The Disintegration Machine, Arthur Conan Doyle
  14. The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle
  15. The Captain of the Polestar, Arthur Conan Doyle
  16. Playing With Fire, Arthur Conan Doyle
  17. How It Happened, Arthur Conan Doyle
  18. One Crowded Hour, Arthur Conan Doyle
  19. The Fall of Lord Barrymore, Arthur Conan Doyle
  20. Dreams With Sharp Teeth, Harlan Ellison & Erik Nelson
  21. A Rare Benedictine, Ellis Peters
  22. A Morbid Taste for Bones, Ellis Peters
  23. Once Corpse Too Many, Ellis Peters
  24. Monk’s Hood, Ellis Peters
  25. Saint Peter’s Fair, Ellis Peters
  26. The Leper of Saint Giles, Ellis Peters
  27. The Sealed Room, Arthur Conan Doyle
  28. The Lost Special, Arthur Conan Doyle
  29. The Sanctuary Sparrow, Ellis Peters
  30. Github Actions in Action, Michael Kaufmann, Rob Bos & Marcel de Vries
  31. Strange Beasts, Susan J. Morris
  32. Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie
  33. Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go, Ricardo Gerardi
  34. Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie
  35. The Devil’s Novice, Ellis Peters
  36. Dead Man’s Ransom, Ellis Peters
  37. 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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1ef8a61a13952ce6.pngYou should write in your #Books


— Ben Orlin


#Reading #Notes #Learning #NoteTaking


https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024/10/29/please-deface-my-books/




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#books, #reading, #notes, #learning, #notetaking


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),


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

  1. How long did it take you (if you remember) when you were just starting out?
  2. Were you doing this on your own?
  3. 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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#programmers, #coders, #mathematicians, #coding, #maths, #books, #Workbooks


Two good authors I follow, from two different worlds: Kitty Kildare & David Kadavy have had their books blocked on Amazon for unspecified reasons.


@mwl was paranoid when he diversified
@mwl was prescient
and @mwl was right



Buy their books and support them if you can.


#Authors #Books #BookPublishing




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How to support your favourite authors—even if you can’t buy their books, Suyi Davies Okungbowa


https://suyidavies.com/essays/support-authors


#Books #Reading




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cdfe5d0567d4e80f.pngFinally! A chart I can identify with …


Via, https://www.tumblr.com/bookgeekdom/748234807054614528


#Books #Reading




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#books, #reading


92f806deb132eb6f.pngI pay a terrible price to bring this news to you …


More fun here …


https://petermorwood.tumblr.com/post/758245883901001728


#Books #Reading #Humour




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