Last book you read?
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:46 pm
At the end of last year I decided to try something very achievable this year:
Every month complete a book and learn a new game. I typically read six or seven books at once (depending on my mood and what kind of book they are) and love games of all types (boardgames in particular) so I figured this would be easily attainable – 12 games and 12 books in a year. I also decided that if I don’t reach this, its no big deal. Its not a New Years resolution, just something I thought would help me find time to do certain things I enjoy.
I started off with reading The Seuss, The Whole Seuss, and Nothing but the Seuss which, as you can imagine, is a biography of Ted Gesiel/Dr Seuss. It was soso. It repeated itself constantly and jumped through his timeline so much it got confusing. Others have stated that it reads like a text book, but it was fascinating taking a deeper look into his life.
This month I finished the Essential Groucho – which only took me a year…I kept getting distracted by other books (Hajii Baba comes to mind). Groucho has always been one of my favorite comedians and between this book and an Evening with Groucho Marx, I think Ive learned a lot about the man. His comedy was bar none fantastic, even if his life was terrible. But the part that really got me was when he said he didn’t blame his first wife for leaving him because if he was in a similar situation, he would have left. And how he describes that feeling just hit me like a sledgehammer.
Right now I am reading:
- Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women by Ricky Jay - A history of the carnival industry
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe – Which I try to read every few years
- The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick – No tech hacking
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre – One of the definitive spy novels and Ive actually never finished it
- IPv6 Essentials (O’Reilly book) – While almost a decade old, still interesting and no one questions me reading it at work.
- Shadowrun 4th Edition – RPG rulebook, my group is playing on Sundays, testing the GM’s campaigns for conventions this year.
But I am always up for reading a good book. I have a stack of books on masonry, historical fiction, and some Gibson Cyberpunk waiting for me when I finish these. You?
Every month complete a book and learn a new game. I typically read six or seven books at once (depending on my mood and what kind of book they are) and love games of all types (boardgames in particular) so I figured this would be easily attainable – 12 games and 12 books in a year. I also decided that if I don’t reach this, its no big deal. Its not a New Years resolution, just something I thought would help me find time to do certain things I enjoy.
I started off with reading The Seuss, The Whole Seuss, and Nothing but the Seuss which, as you can imagine, is a biography of Ted Gesiel/Dr Seuss. It was soso. It repeated itself constantly and jumped through his timeline so much it got confusing. Others have stated that it reads like a text book, but it was fascinating taking a deeper look into his life.
This month I finished the Essential Groucho – which only took me a year…I kept getting distracted by other books (Hajii Baba comes to mind). Groucho has always been one of my favorite comedians and between this book and an Evening with Groucho Marx, I think Ive learned a lot about the man. His comedy was bar none fantastic, even if his life was terrible. But the part that really got me was when he said he didn’t blame his first wife for leaving him because if he was in a similar situation, he would have left. And how he describes that feeling just hit me like a sledgehammer.
Right now I am reading:
- Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women by Ricky Jay - A history of the carnival industry
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe – Which I try to read every few years
- The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick – No tech hacking
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre – One of the definitive spy novels and Ive actually never finished it
- IPv6 Essentials (O’Reilly book) – While almost a decade old, still interesting and no one questions me reading it at work.
- Shadowrun 4th Edition – RPG rulebook, my group is playing on Sundays, testing the GM’s campaigns for conventions this year.
But I am always up for reading a good book. I have a stack of books on masonry, historical fiction, and some Gibson Cyberpunk waiting for me when I finish these. You?
