Reading
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25 Books In 2025
It is never too early to begin mapping out your reading list for the upcoming year, right? Well, who asked you? Next year, I’d like to incorporate more Classics and non-fiction titles into the rotation. I’ve come up with fourteen and need a few more.…
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23/24
I just finished my 23rd out of 24 books to hit my reading goal for the year 2024. You can catch up with what I’ve been reading on the Bookshelf page of this website. I’ve mentioned it previously, but shelved the book called “S.” by…
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18/24
I just wrapped up a sobering re-read of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. A cautionary tale of what happens when books are outlawed and burned upon discovery by firemen. This novel carried more weight for me today, then when I first read it back in junior…
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Should I Buy More Books?
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Unlimited- For Three Months
Amazon was kind enough to offer a three month trial of Kindle Unlimited. So I installed a few books to the Kindle for reading, because, I.Don’t.Have.Enough.To.Read.As.It.Is. There are a few titles on the waiting list from my libraries but those will take weeks to deliver…
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Soma
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” — Aldous Huxley Huxley’s words from 1932 are truer now than when he wrote it. His novel Brave New World deserves a re-read.
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Three P’s
For digital documents you want to keep for a long time, I suggest the Three P’s: While in college in the mid 1990’s, and prior to purchasing my first computer, I utilized a word processor. Think manual typewriter but with a 3.5″ floppy disk for…
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Theseus’ Paradox
While researching an unrelated article, I came across that phrase, “Theseus’ Paradox” and went down a rabbit hole of nerd-scrolling after that. The Wikipedia page here details the story and the philosophy about it so I won’t get into details for now. However, it does…
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14 Down 10 To Go
Picking up the pace here on my 24 books in 2024 reading goal. Check them out on the Library page
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12 Down, 12 To Go
Halfway through the 2024 reading list and I feel as if I am on a spree. The first quarter of the year was slow reading with work travel, relocating and heavy, difficult books to sort out. The libraries felt generous and dumped four books on…
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Read & Write
The Los Angeles Library system recently purchased a local book publisher and plans on publishing even more from local authors. Brilliant! Local libraries could and should support people to self-publish books, e-books, websites, etc. Instead of just computers for the homeless to play games on,…
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Read-O-Matic
I want to design and place a machine to fill up with books that people can purchase on the go as opposed to them buying a soda or a snack. I know we will all be a lot healthier. They remind me of the Little…