Lecturi

Citesc între 15 și 50 de cărți pe an, cu o medie undeva pe la 30 pe an. Din 2018 am început să folosesc goodreads pentru a-mi organiza mai bine lecturile și pentru o chestie care-mi place foarte tare: au ceea ce ei numesc "provocări". Îți propui să citești un anumit număr de cărți pe an și, dacă reușești, primești un premiu de la ei. Premiile sunt simbolice (ecusoane, abțibilduri etc), dar mie mi se pare haios. Prima "provocare" am avut-o în 2018, 40 de cărți, și am reușit să o duc la bun sfârșit. Anul trecut mi-am propus să citesc la fel de mult, dar, din păcate, nu am reușit decât 12 cărți. În general citesc 3-5 cărți în paralel; subiectele sunt diferite, dar nimic altceva decât beletristică, ceva eseuri și programare sau alte lecturi tehnice.

2020

• SPQR – Mary Beard (în curs)
• Pompeii: Viața unui oraș roman – Mary Beard (în curs)
• Math Adventures with Python: An Illustrated Guide to Exploring Math with Code – Peter Farrell (în curs)
• Omul revoltat – Albert Camus (în curs)
• Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction – John C. Polkinghorne (în curs)

2019

• MATLAB for Dummies – Jim Sizemore
• The Sea Raiders – H.G. Wells
• I Have More Souls Than One – Fernando Pessoa
• The Life of a Stupid Man – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
• Flush – Virginia Woolf
• Programming the Raspberry Pi: Getting Started with Python – Simon Monk
• Doing Math with Python – Amit Saha
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners – Al Sweigart
• [Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters] – Justin Seitz
• Python Crash Course: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming – Eric Matthes
• The Dialogue of Two Snails – Federico García Lorca

2018

• To Be Read at Dusk – Charles Dickens
• The Queen of Spades – Alexander Pușkin
• Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer – Wendell Berry
• Of Dogs and Walls – Yūko Tsushima
• The Stolen White Elephant – Mark Twain
• Lot No. 249 – Arthur Conan Doyle
• Rich in Russia – John Updike
• Lunar Caustic – Malcolm Lowry
• The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland – Frank O'Connor
• Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby – Donald Barthelme
• My Enemy's Enemy – Kingsley Amis
• The Lady in the Looking-Glass – Virginia Woolf
• The Mark-2 Wife – William Trevor
• Autocracy and War – Joseph Conrad
• Youth – Joseph Conrad
• The Strange Crime of John Boulnois – G.K. Gilbert
• A Pocket Full of Rye – Agatha Christie
• Tape-Measure Murder: Miss Marple – Agatha Christie
• A Slip Under the Microscope – H.G. Wells
• Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, & Baking Biscuits – Reese Witherspoon
• Blandings: Company for Gertrude – P.G. Wodehouse
• Blandings: Lord Emsworth and the Girlfriend – P.G. Wodehouse
• The Crime Wave at Blandings – P.G. Wodehouse
• Blandings: The Go-Getter – P.G. Wodehouse
• Blandings: Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey! – P.G. Wodehouse
• Flypaper – Robert Musil
• The Moving Finger – Agatha Christie
• Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
• ARRL's Small Antennas for Small Spaces – Steve Ford
• Radio-Frequency Electronics: Circuits and Applications – Jon Hagen
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again – David Foster Wallace
• SuperSpeed Device Design By Example – John Hyde
• Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries – Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams
• C# 5.0 Unleashed – Bart De Smet
• Hand-carried QRP antennas: Simple antennas and accessories to operate from almost anywhere – Peter Parker
• Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors – Richard Hooker
• Chira Chiralina. Codin. Ciulinii Bărăganului – Panait Istrati
• The Sittaford Mystery – Agatha Christie
• A Murder is Announced – Agatha Christie

2017

• The Body in the Library – Agatha Christie