A collection of Agatha Christie I found in a free library, first "novella" is "The Secret Adversary"

We have a technical book club at work and I started reading the Programatic Programmer 20th anniversary edition. I read the original book 15 years ago, and it was really amazing to read at the time, still relevant today. I'm excited to read it again, with so much more experience and refresh the things I may have forgotten.

If you are a software engineer, or working in software, it's a really great take on how to navigate developing software on teams.

Just finished Blitzed. Thought it was great though very depressing at times.
If you thought the sixties was the decade of drugs influencing Western living this book says 'wait a minute there pardner'.

Started Robert Caro's LBJ series. I only read the intro and I'm hooked.

Dude is 88, definitely gonna croak before he finishes the series. It's like Berserk for boomers.

GuyLaCroix wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 10:20 am Started Robert Caro's LBJ series. I only read the intro and I'm hooked.

Dude is 88, definitely gonna croak before he finishes the series. It's like Berserk for boomers.

I'm sure you have already, but just in case - read The Power Broker.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 11:11 am

GuyLaCroix wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 10:20 am Started Robert Caro's LBJ series. I only read the intro and I'm hooked.

Dude is 88, definitely gonna croak before he finishes the series. It's like Berserk for boomers.

I'm sure you have already, but just in case - read The Power Broker.

I expect that will be next, based on the 100~ pages I've gotten into the LBJ book

GuyLaCroix wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 10:20 am Started Robert Caro's LBJ series. I only read the intro and I'm hooked.

Dude is 88, definitely gonna croak before he finishes the series. It's like Berserk for boomers.

Read the first 2 the winter and summer before my diagnosis. Been a long time. SHould probably get after 'em again.

PASTA wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 7:58 pm

GuyLaCroix wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 10:20 am Started Robert Caro's LBJ series. I only read the intro and I'm hooked.

Dude is 88, definitely gonna croak before he finishes the series. It's like Berserk for boomers.

Read the first 2 the winter and summer before my diagnosis. Been a long time. SHould probably get after 'em again.

I'm learning so much about soil quality in 1800s hill country Texas

https://reverb.com/news/interview-anjal ... tely-maybe

Doesn't qualify as a long-read, so leaving it here. Lovely piece.

Recently finished-

Southernmost by Silas House. Meh. Started strong and got tedious.

The Horse by Willy Vlautin. Tore through it over the course of a couple of nights. Vlautin gets bleak again with his usual themes of alcoholism and depression. This time it’s a musician on the casino circuit who retires to a remote mining claim in Nevada. A blind horse suddenly appears outside his trailer, and he has no idea what to do with it. Vlautin does a great job writing about music and musicians, probably because he’s a musician-turned-writer himself.

Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith. Some of the same themes as Larry Brown’s Fay, but I liked it better than Fay. I like the cut of MFS’s jib, and I’ll be looking into his other books. Mississippi has an incredible array of literary talent. It may be last place in a lot of things, but it certainly rides the crest of storytelling.

Speaking of musicians-turned-writers, I’m starting John Darnielle’s Universal Harvester when I get home from work today. I’ve read his others and have enjoyed them all, even if the first one was a little clunky. He certainly has my respect.