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Martin Kleppmann: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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Specifically reading about distributed locking strategies...

Go on...admit you bought the book to find out what a wild boar has to do with Designing Data-Intesivzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...snore.....zzzzzzzzzzzzz........snore........
 
I have decided to learn about cooking, which I've been "intuiting" for 20 years. Not only did I refuse to read about it, I refused to follow recipes, preferring to mess up and try again. Many spoiled meals later, I put together this reading list:
You only need one bro. I got you covered.
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If you want to learn to Cook and make recipes by yourself, this is the way.
 
You only need one bro. I got you covered.
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If you want to learn to Cook and make recipes by yourself, this is the way.
I'll read it, but I'm not so interested in recipes as I am in principles.
 
I'll read it, but I'm not so interested in recipes as I am in principles
I got that, and that's exactly why I pointed at a simple and efficient book like this one, you'll learn everything as you go along. This is the way. You'll end up doing your own soup and successfull experiments in no time.
 
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I got that, and that's exactly why I pointed at a simple and efficient book like this one, you'll learn everything as you go along. This is the way.
Oh, by actually cooking?

I've done enough of that. It's time for theory.
 
Started Don Winslow's Neal Carey series, I'm about halfway through the second book. I'd never heard of the series but I'm familiar with Winslow's other work. Based on what I've read so far, I highly recommend these to anyone who likes detective/ crime novels.
 
Recently finished:

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Lots of fine research on the life of Leonard Bernstein, too bad the quality of the writing is so flat.

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This biography of Dorothy Parker is much better written, the tales told evoke an amazing period of creativity in American letters and the arts. Though Dorothy Parker is noted for her wit and comedy, there is little that is comical about her life.
 
Like CJ Box, Lee Child, James Patterson, and John Sanford, John Scalzi is a novel-writing machine, albeit less blood and gore and more Grue and Minions.
John Scalzi: Starter Villain

Always a treat to discover new-to-me authors who know how to hook a reader from page 1.
Django Wexler: How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
Olivia Blacke: A New Lease on Death
Charlie N Holmberg: Boy of Chaotic Making

Had to set aside horror for awhile, as I was already feeling gloomy for much of 2024, but what I read of this was very good
Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams (editors): Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

And of course there's Murakami.
Haruki Murakami: The City and It's Uncertain Walls
 
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Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead. Great follow-up to Harlem Shuffle.

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Like CJ Box, Lee Child, James Patterson, and John Sanford, John Scalzi is a novel-writing machine, albeit less blood and gore and more Grue and Minions.
John Scalzi: Starter Villain

Always a treat to discover new-to-me authors who know how to hook a reader from page 1.
Django Wexler: How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
Olivia Blacke: A New Lease on Death
Charlie N Holmberg: Boy of Chaotic Making

And of course there's Murakami.
Haruki Murakami: The City and It's Uncertain Walls

Starter Villain was a fun read. I enjoyed Old Man's War and The Interdependency series and have The Kaiju Preservation Society on my list to read.
 
Re-reading Edson, by the late folk singer Bill Morrissey who hung around here for a while (Seacoast NH). He isn't a great novelist but he does a good job of capturing Newmarket, NH in the 1980s. I was hooked at the very beginning of the story when the main character stopped into Martello's Fruit and Real Estate. Marelli's in real life, where I used to buy beer.
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Starter Villain was a fun read. I enjoyed Old Man's War and The Interdependency series and have The Kaiju Preservation Society on my list to read.
I recall KPS being a fun romp, and also had a good time with Scalzi's The Android's Dream.
 
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