diff --git a/content/blog/2024/books/index.md b/content/blog/2024/books/index.md index 3d101a4..e4ece8e 100644 --- a/content/blog/2024/books/index.md +++ b/content/blog/2024/books/index.md @@ -3,13 +3,20 @@ title: "Books I Read in 2024" date: 2024-11-16T08:34:34-08:00 publishDate: 2024-12-31 draft: true +tags: + - Books + - Reading --- I enjoy reading quite a bit. Nevertheless, it's something I need to be intentional about incorporating into my life. I usually to finish a modest -number of books in a year. Here's my list. +number of books in a year. This year I made it to a nice round ten. ---- +A big theme of the year is the [Murderbot Diaries][murderbot]. My friend Jess +recommended them to me a while back, and I finally got around to [All Systems +Red][murderbot1] last year. I was hooked enough that {{< tess >}} bought me the +subsequent three for Christmas last year. So you're gonna see almost all the +Murderbot books on this list. [Bindle Punk Bruja](https://marthawells.com/networkeffect.htm) by Desideria Mesa : Mesa's debut novel is set in 1920s Kansas City and centers around Rose, the @@ -28,11 +35,6 @@ far-off planet. A gift from my sister. : Mystery, intrigue, gay ladies, and some incredible plot twists. Tess gave me this one. -My friend Jess recommended the [Murderbot Diaries][murderbot] to me a while back -and I finally got around to [All Systems Red][murderbot1] last year. I was -hooked enough that {{< tess >}} bought me the subsequent three for Christmas -last year. So you're gonna see almost all the Murderbot books on this list. - [Artificial Condition](https://marthawells.com/murderbot2.htm) by Martha Wells : Murderbot investigates its past. @@ -47,9 +49,15 @@ GrayCris. : Continuing the Murderbot obsession, I picked up this one from a [Books Inc][booksinc] in San Francisco's Marina district. -[I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom](https://marthawells.com/networkeffect.htm) by Jason Pargin -: Anna and I decided to read this together, book club style. It's ridiculous so -far. +[I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250285959/imstartingtoworryaboutthisblackboxofdoom/) by Jason Pargin +: Anna and I decided to read this together, book club style. It's a ridiculous +romp across the US with some deep commentary on the perils of social media: how +it promotes dogpiling in ways that can destroy lives, and the groupthink that +arises from being terminally online. + +[The Full Moon Coffee Shop](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746333/the-full-moon-coffee-shop-by-mai-mochizuki/) by Mai Mochizuki +: A cute, short read about a mysterious popup coffee shop that appears in Kyōto +during the full moon. [murderbot]: https://marthawells.com/murderbot.htm [murderbot1]: https://marthawells.com/murderbot1.htm