What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech
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Currently reading Zero Downtime Migration (http://www.zerodowntimemigration.com/) as we have a number of clients on various SBS platforms that will be migrating.
Starting with Customer 0 (us).
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On my Kindle for pleasure reading I am partway through Madeleine L'Engle's Dragons in the Water the second book in her "O'Keefe" cycle. I already finished the "Wrinkle in Time" cycle. It's a nostalgic throwback for me. I am rereading her entire corpus which I enjoyed when young.
Most of her works were written in the sixties. But some in the seventies and eighties and a few I missed because I had stopped reading her before she had finished them. So I'm reading them all again and adding in the ending that was written when I was an adult.
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For my kids I have been reading the Chronicles of Narnia at bedtime. We've made it all the way to book five, my favorite of the series: A Horse and His Boy
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And my current technical reading: Node.js the Right Way
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@scottalanmiller said:
I read typically one thing while commuting via Audible on my iPhone and then one or two things at a time on my Kindle at home.
My current Audible title is: An Endless Ring of Light which is the fourth title in Madeline L'Engle's "Austins" cycle. I've worked my way through the cycle which I haven't read since I was probably in middle school.
I never did read more than "A Wrinkle in Time" and "A Wind in the Door" back in middle school, but Madeline L'Engle was the author that sparked my interest in Science Fiction.
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For pleasure reading, I am about to start the final book of the Wheel of Time series, "A Memory of Light"
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I read typically one thing while commuting via Audible on my iPhone and then one or two things at a time on my Kindle at home.
My current Audible title is: An Endless Ring of Light which is the fourth title in Madeline L'Engle's "Austins" cycle. I've worked my way through the cycle which I haven't read since I was probably in middle school.
I never did read more than "A Wrinkle in Time" and "A Wind in the Door" back in middle school, but Madeline L'Engle was the author that sparked my interest in Science Fiction.
I don't recommend going back to that cycle. Much more poorly written than you probably remember. They are actually pretty bad. Many Waters is the best of that series. Written fourth but should be read third.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
I never did read more than "A Wrinkle in Time" and "A Wind in the Door" back in middle school, but Madeline L'Engle was the author that sparked my interest in Science Fiction.
I don't recommend going back to that cycle. Much more poorly written than you probably remember. They are actually pretty bad. Many Waters is the best of that series. Written fourth but should be read third.
I skimmed the books 10 years ago or so in a bookstore and could not bring myself to buy them to reread. I wanted to keep my memory and inspiration intact.
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For fiction, I'm about 70% of the way through Storm of Swords (third book in the Game of Thrones series, which is actually called A Song of Fire and Ice but most people don't seem to know it by that name.) I finally caught on to this series within the last year, after 2 previous failed attempts to get past the first 100 pages of the first Game of Thrones book. I've resisted the urge to watch the series until I'm done the books are done.
My current technical book is Training Kit (Exam 70-461): Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (I'm working my way towards some certifications in MS SQL Reporting Services; I've used the technology every day for the last 10 years and I'm still surprised by how many little tidbits and shortcuts I'm learning from the books)
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Just finished Final Battle (In Her Name: Redemption, Book 3) by Micheal Hicks
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I am reading "Learn HTML5
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I've been reading Steve Jobs on and off.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@lance said:
I've been reading Steve Jobs on and off.
What he wrote or about him?
The biography by Walter Isaacson
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@lance said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@lance said:
I've been reading Steve Jobs on and off.
What he wrote or about him?
The biography by Walter Isaacson
I read this right after it came out. I learned a lot. It wasn't a bad read either.
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@Dashrender said:
@lance said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@lance said:
I've been reading Steve Jobs on and off.
What he wrote or about him?
The biography by Walter Isaacson
I read this right after it came out. I learned a lot. It wasn't a bad read either.
The man lived an interesting life to say the least.
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If you like his story, check out: http://www.amazon.com/The-Difference-Between-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768/r
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@scottalanmiller said:
If you like his story, check out: http://www.amazon.com/The-Difference-Between-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768/r
What? it's not on the Kindle?
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The Steve Jobs autobiography was the first book I purchased digitally.. I try to stay there now
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
If you like his story, check out: http://www.amazon.com/The-Difference-Between-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768/r
What? it's not on the Kindle?
Too old.
