Books 📚

Collection of essays - the one I read the collection for was the cruise ship experience. DFW is an incredible author. Paints the entire picture with words. Also witty and funny.

Did not know this was an autobiography prior to picking it up. Always interesting to learn about the lives of others who’ve had things objectively far more difficult than I have.

I was at a restaurant in the Florida Keys where there was a caged bird chirping and remembered there was a book with that name and decided to read it.

Currently my favorite Vonnegut book.

I loved the ending when the people start repairing the machines that the main characters worked so hard to destroy. The idea that there’s a level of inevitablility to certain outcomes makes life easier to digest.

About a girl discovering she’s asexual at university.

Interesting but a bit repetitive/dry about 3/4 of the way through. Could be due to the fact that I don’t really relate but I didn’t finish the book.

A story about Shakespeare’s son Hamnet. Enjoyed it but it took a while to finish due to how fast it put me to sleep before bed.

Easy but good read.

I find that a lot of right wingers (in the areas of the internet that I frequent) liken Orwell’s 1984 to todays society as a means to scare readers but I wonder how many of those readers know Orwell described himself as a democratic socialist.

George Orwell Was a Socialist

I loved these books. I could not put them down and that is not something that happens often for me.

Second favorite Vonnegut book.

Another fun idea that all of humanity is more or less a joke or a tool of some far more advanced civilization.

I have added the word Trafalmadore to at least one code base that I’ve worked on.

I read all of it on a plane ride and genuinely do not remember a word.

Easy classic.

One of those books I never had to read in school

I think it’s trendy to rag on the internet atheists (Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, etc) of the early/mid 2010s but they undoubtedly had a major impact on my life coming from parents that are religious fundamentalists.

Another book I think most kids read in highscool but I somehow avoided.