Books!
In addition to the books I’ve recently read below, I also have the following book-related pages:
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Amazon 1998-2024 (I quit "Earth’s Biggest Bookstore" for good)
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TODO: got kobo (to replace kindle)
My reading journal and book reviews
In a continuing process of getting off of all big-corpo platforms, I’m back to hosting my book reviews on my own website again!
Oh jeez, I’m so behind. I’ve read books! But I need to get the entries transcribed…
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2026-05-07 The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis, 320 pages
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2026-05-04 The Ascetic Programmer by Antonio Piccolboni, 258 pages
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2026-05-01 An Introduction to Database Systems by C.J. Date, 938 pages
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2026-04-28 redacted, 296 pages
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2026-04-06 Making the Presidency: John Adams and the… by Lindsay M. Chervinsky, 440 pages
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2026-04-06 redacted, 288 pages
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2026-04-04 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, 497 pages
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2026-03-31 Httpd and Relayd Mastery by Michael W. Lucas, 231 pages
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2026-03-28 Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, 928 pages
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2026-03-14 God Emperor of Dune (Dune book 4) by Frank Herbert, 608 pages
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2026-02-26 redacted, 197 pages
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2026-02-13 The Book of PF, 4th Ed. by Peter N. M. Hansteen, 248 pages
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2026-01-16 Tarsnap Mastery by Michael W. Lucas, 124 pages
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…many books go here…
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2025-10-05 The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard W. Hamming, 432 pages
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…many books go here…
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2024-04-17 Programming Ruby 3.3 by Noel Rappin, 718 pages
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2024-04-16 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, 272 pages
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2024-04-13 Shell Script Pearls by Ron Peters, 318 pages
(For the interested, I’ve got a Ruby script that gets called from Vim to make it easier to add new reviews to this list: new-book source and my notes about it.)
(I’ll probably eventually split the reviews into years or something and the above will just be a "recent" list. More importantly, I’ll be able to incorporate them into my website, group them in different ways, etc.)
Other Book links
A book-related website I occasionally use to find titles, authors, and especially series, is LibraryThing. Here’s the page for books most frequently tagged "computer science":