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July 2013 Reading
I have never read much Woolf and always thought I ought to. I found her essay, which looks at what it means to be a woman who makes art was a lot more accessible than I had been led to believe her writing would be. She does tak …
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June 2013 Reading
I started my Scheme interpreter a few weeks back and then realized I didn't know Scheme that well. This book cam recommended as an intro to the language and is available online for free. Its very accessible, and wonde …
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May 2013 Reading
Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 hours is a wiki tutorial that has been turned into a free PDF. I am working on writing a programming language this year and Scheme is a reasonable start being relatively simple to parse and make into a …
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April 2013 Reading
Ramnath tells an history of decolonization from an anarchist perpective. Or anarchism from a decolonizationary perspective. Focussing on the history of liberation struggles in South Asia, Ramnath tells the stories of people who …
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March 2013 Reading
A recent translation of this Guatemalen novel of the mid 70s, it reads like Joyce and indeed references him a few times. Its also uncomfortably misogynistic at times, brutal, occasionally funny, and very moving. Oh and heavy going. I really need to read …
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February 2013 Reading
A gift from a friend of mine in Germany. A fast paced thriller. Its kind of fun but I found the animal rights guy a little on the unbelievable side. Nevertheless Boyle writes wonderfully and the story was well told and …
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January 2013 Reading
Lim uses statistical modelling and interviews to back up his central thesis that presidential rhetoric has been becoming increasingly simplif …
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2013 Reading
Here’s all the books that I read in 2013, by month. On the each month's page there’s quick review or synopsis of each book. …
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2012 Reading Highlights
It is traditional — and who am I to dispute traditions? — to publish navel-gazing lists and yearly roundups at or about New Year. So, I have had a self-indulgent look back at 2012 through the lens of the books that I read and articles that I wrote this year. …
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December 2012 Reading
A Christmas present from my dad, this is a collection of 9 counterfactual accounts of history, rooted in what contemporary observers believed likely or possible, written by leading (mostly British) historians. Ferguson’s introduc …
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