I haven't logged/reviewed books for a long while, so I have some catching up to do if I intend to record them all. Fortunately I can simply check iTunes to see what I've listened to, and I've even rated some of them at Audible.

On the "classics" side I recently finished The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy. It's a long story and the audiobook is ( Read more... )

Some of the audibooks I've listened to the past few months:

The Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson:
Nice, slightly different fantasy. Definitely worthwhile. Sanderson is excused for not having finished WoT yet.

Shelters of Stone, Jean M Auel ( Read more... )

When you see something you don't like, you form an Opinion against it. Many of those with an Opinion will share it, and their friends will share it to their friends, who share it further. Some create a symbol for the Opinion, even name a day for it, in order to share it even wider and remind themselves and others of it ( Read more... )

Last week I finished listening to Eragon (Christopher Paolini).

I've recently read or listened to The DaVinci Code and the entire Twilight series and Eragon fits into this "get through all that mainstream crap" theme quite well. It's neither better nor worse than those. It's more stolen though. The DaVinci Code was at least a bit imaginative. ( Read more... )

Snatched from various people ( Read more... )

Four years ago I was getting tired of writing code(*) for a living. Three years ago I did something about it and started writing documentation for a living instead. Two years ago I decided to give coding another shot, in what could be one of the best teams I you can find in Sweden. A year later I could only admit that I was right in my earlier ( Read more... )

Tomorrow will be my last day at Oracle for a while. I've taken six months of "Personal Leave of Absence" in order to try running my web shop Silvergrejs full time and see if it works ( Read more... )

When you start typing in Google's search box, you get a popup list with suggested key words. I assume the suggestions are based on the most common searches that begin with the string you have typed so far. So what happens if you only type one letter and look at the top suggestion? You'll get Google's own ABC book :-) The results will vary by ( Read more... )

I took a long bath this morning, and since the next book on my to read-pile is a borrowed book, I grabbed something thin from the bookshelf for reading. I thought I was grabbing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for a re-read, but when I got down to the bathroom and looked at the book, I realized I had picked Charlie and the Glass Elevator instead ( Read more... )

Having a cold gives you time to read. I haven't had this much time to read in a long while, so in two days I've read two books ( Read more... )