What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech
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I have just finished reading all the Conan books by Robert Ervin Howard, which are better reading than I expected for the genre.
I am currently reading the autobiography Believe Me by the English transvestite actor, comedy performer and charty supporter Eddie Izzard ... Interesting, irreverent at times, often funny and always thought provoking.
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@SemperOSS said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Starting the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tonight with the kids.
I re-read that with my daughter about two years ago. Excellent book.
Mine is seven, so this is her first time through it.
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The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Very interesting stuff.
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The kids are busily reading The Cricket in Times Square.
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I think this is outside of tech. I mean it is close, but it isn't an O'Reilly book.
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Just read some more of Squirrel Girl to Luciana.
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Just starting into The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.
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Currently reading "Every word is a bird we teach to sing" by Daniel Tammet. Daniel was the subject of documentaries due to being one of the greatest savants in the world. He experiences a synaesthetic and emotional response for numbers and words. The book is a study on language and how things change dramatically depending on the way it is used or the culture. He's a very fascinating person and has a very unique thought process. I have enjoyed this one so much that I will likely buy all of his books in the near future.
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"The Last Mohican" last night.
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I've been rereading the Pern series.
Currently on All the Weyrs of Pern
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Does NIST Special Publication 800-53 r4 count as "outside of tech"?
If not then I did start re-reading Monstress Vol 3 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. (graphic novel), so I could move onto all the individual issues that came out after that which haven't been released in graphic novel format yet.
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Reading "Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes" with my kid, lol.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Reading "Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes" with my kid, lol.
I'm so sorry.
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@Reid-Cooper said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@dafyre said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Reading "Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes" with my kid, lol.
I'm so sorry.
Ha ha ha. You read it?
It seems to be a half decent book so far, but we're only like 2 chapters in.
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Currently re-reading the World War series by Harry Turtledove.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwar_series
Currently on book 2
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My daughter just finished reading The Illiad (Fagles) for one of her online classics reading courses (we home school).
We had great discussions about the very descriptive gore sequences so it's sitting on top of my Next to Read pile as I'm reading a new canon "Last Shot" which is meh. I'll finish it just 'cause.
EDIT: And the gods, and the characters, and their crazy ways as far as the Illiad goes.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Reading "Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes" with my kid, lol.
We're now about 3/4 the way through the book. It's a decent book so far. Don't tell my kid, but I'm going to read it again after we finish, lol.
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So as we pack to move I am very carefully unloading books that I don't feel that we should store, ship, and unpack in a foreign country. But it's hard, I own SO many books still, even after going through this process many times, and there are many that are like unread or I want to read with my kids. But HB had a deal on RA Salvatore books this week, so I bought like 20 RAS Drizzt titles and then was happy to put all of those physical books into donation boxes. That freed up a lot of moving box space!
