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title: "Some Books I've Read This Year"
date: 2025-10-17T10:23:06-07:00
year: "2025"
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One of my goals for this year was to read 10 books start to finish. I haven't really read for recreation since I was a child, so I felt 10 was a high enough number to have to work towards but still low enough to be attainable. So far, I have finished 7 books, so I thought I'd write out some brief thoughts on them.
## The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
The first two entries to the Wayfarers series. Dubbed "cozy" science fiction, these books were a lot of fun to read. Exploring the world that Chambers has built is so interesting and fun, I look forward to finishing out the series.
## The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
Follows a fox woman on an adventure throughout China and Japan. The story takes place around the turn of the 20th century, with lots of Chinese mythology throughout the book, creating an interesting intersection of the modern world and ancient lore. This was an incredible experience, I highly recommend this book.
## The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Some non-fiction following the creation of the minicomputer codenamed Eagle. At the time, Data General was scrambling to release a competitor to Digital Equipment Corporation's new VAX computer. There were two projects to release a 32-bit computer ongoing simulatenously, one of which was essenitally a black-ops project started as a backup in case the first failed. The book follows the young engineers on the team as they bring the computer to life over the course of a year. It's a great look into that period of computer history.
## Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Holy hell what the fuck is wrong with Facebook. Wynn-Williams details her horrific experiences at Facebook and how plain irresponsible most of the people in charge are. A gripping, but depressing, read.
## Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
The third book in the Neuromancer trilogy, credited as one of the earliest pieces of cyberpunk fiction. The trilogy is basically required reading for science fiction fans. The world Gibson builds up is fascinating, both as an example of the feelings toward the future at the time, and as an actual prediction of today's world. The depiction of cyberspace and beings living within it is a prescient depiction of the modern Internet.
## The Wager by David Grann
Some historical non-fiction following the crew of HMS Wager, which shipwrecked in South America in 1741, resulting in mutiny and murder as the crew fights to survive and make it back to England. The book takes care to frame the events within the context of European imperialism. There are several times the castaways are (or would be helped) by indiginous people, but the mindset of the natives being "savages" ends up screwing themselves over and reducing their chances of survival.
## Yu-Gi-Oh by Kazuki Takahashi
This doesn't really count towards my goal of 10 books since it is a manga, but re-reading it was a lot of fun. The Yu-Gi-Oh! manga is the definitive version of the story, and the anime adaptation doesn't really do it justice. Of course the anime is iconic and has a lot of memorable moments, but as an adaptation is really loosewith a lot of chapters that just are completely cut or are changed so much to be basically unrecognizable.
## My compilers textbook
Don't really recommend this one.