What are y'all reading this summer (fiction or non-fiction)? My list so far:
- 'Bad Blood' by John Carreyrou (about Theranos)
- 'Habeas Data' by Cyrus Farivar
- 'Now My Heart is Full' by Laura June
- 'Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions' by Valeria Luiselli
- 'Asymmetry' by Lisa Halliday
I'm also looking at this list from Vulture: http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/books-to-read-this-summer-2018.html
@schlink ever anticipating "The Rust Programming Language" :) https://nostarch.com/Rust
@schlink oh, i didn't even notice you linked to the amazon book in another response! FWIW the link from NoStarch has a coupon code for preordering!
@schlink I'm reading 1Q84 in English. I definitely won't read any more Murakami and I'm not sure I will finish this translation. The translation is verbose and the style is annoying. Maybe it's better in Japanese.
I'm enjoying Elif Batuman's The Idiot, a book with limited dramatic appeal (nothing happens) about Elif's witty Harvard years. It's really just a collection of anecdotes. I'm glad there's room at a major publisher for work like this.
@schlink so far this year:
- roadside picnic
- the last wish (witcher series)
- attack of the 50 foot blockchain
- bad blood: secrets and lies in a silicon valley startup
- glass house: the 1% economy and the shattering of the all-american dream
- a distant mirror: the calamitous 14th century
currently working through:
- the gray house
- deep work
- in cold blood (capote)
@schlink I'm reading "The Go Programming Language" by Kernighan et al. Really well written so far.