Posts for March 2015

2015-03-15: Another haul post

Wow, it's been quite a long time since I've posted something here.

Everything is going well -- I'm just very, very engrossed with the new job, since I'm still in exponential ramp-up mode. It's lasting for longer than I expected, although my expectations didn't have much basis since this is the first time I've started a new job in 17 years. I'm feeling more and more capable every day, but the combination of a very heavily social learning process, a lot of new technical areas to learn, and not having taken a vacation since last June means that my weekends are spent just passively watching things and zoning.

Not sure yet how long that will last, and I don't want to make any predictions, although I do have my first significant vacation coming up next month.

Anyway, book reading and buying has continued, although I'm again far behind on writing reviews. With luck, I'll be writing one of those (for posting later) right after writing this post.

Michelle Alexander — The New Jim Crow (non-fiction)
Elizabeth Bear — Karen Memory (sff)
Becky Chambers — The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (sff)
Fred Clark — The Anti-Christ Handbook (non-fiction)
Charles de Lint — The Very Best of Charles de Lint (sff)
S.L. Huang — A Neurological Study on the Effects... (sff)
S.L. Huang — Half Life (sff)
Kameron Hurley — The Mirror Empire (sff)
Sophie Lack — Dissonance (sff)
Sophie Lack — Imbalance (sff)
Susan R. Matthews — An Exchange of Hostages (sff)
Kaoru Mori — A Bride's Story #1 (graphic novel)
Donald Shoup — The High Cost of Free Parking (non-fiction)
Jo Walton — The Just City (sff)

Pretty nice variety of different stuff from a huge variety of recommendation sources. I've already read the Chambers (and can recommend it). A review will be forthcoming.

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