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Finished reading **The Keeper of Hidden Books** by Madeline Martin. It is a novel about a young woman who works at the library during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Some clumsy writing, and not my usual genre, however I appreciate it was a well-researched story and a love-letter to literature.
* Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh
My “leisure” reading currently, even though the imagery is often kinda gross.
* Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security, by Brian W. Kernighan
Highly recommended book on a very important subject. It’s based on a course for students in other, non-technical fields, i.e., aimed at laypeople and provide them with basics to be grounded in reality when dealing with ICT (you know, like when legislators push nonsensical policy that deals with online security etc.). But even as someone with a compsci background, it’s interesting to see perspectives of an industry legend.
Previously, I read the first half that covers how computers work in broad strokes, then passed the copy on, and now I’ve come back to the second half on communication: the Internet, security and privacy.
* Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations, by Avi Shlaim
A very good overview of existing sources (from Israeli archives, Arabic publications and others). Starts with Balfour Declaration and goes into topics such as relations with Syria or Jordan in the first half.
Finished reading **The Secret History** by **Donna Tartt.**
It was fun reading this novel. Excellent characterization, theme and language.
Owls do cry by Janet Frame. Excellent, beautiful writing and feeling of impending doom just under the surface. Not sure how it’s all going to pan out which is a delight.
**Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens.** Damn it Nancy, I wish you’d listened
**The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop, by E. E. Dunlop.** Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the point where they’re starting to die.
**Of Women And Salt, by Gabriela Garcia.** Of all the women in this book, Carmen is the one I saw least interiority from…and she’s the one I want to know so much more about
**Vox, by Christina Dalcher.** I’m starting to have a notion of where this is going…
**An Excellent Mystery, by Ellis Peters.** I have no memory of this book, so it should be fun rereading it. I know I HAVE read it, I just can’t bring anything concrete to mind about it fifteen years later.
Finished storm front from Dresden files by Jim butcher- incredibly good
Started mistborn hero of ages, loving it
**The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger**
I finished reading the biography Horatio Nelson by Tom Pocock, and now I’ve started Nelson: A Dream of Glory by John Sugden.
I’m a super slow reader, and that was the first book I’ve finished in a long time, but at least I’m getting back into it so I’m happy with myself.