[mindcrime]

Seeing this reminds me of something I'm not proud of. I've done effectively no reading this year. At least not by my normal standards.

I generally read between 30-50 books a year (mix of fiction and non-fiction). But this year I knew my focus was going to be more on research, reading papers, writing code, etc. so I set my reading goal lower than normal (I usually set it to like 75, knowing that that's a bit aspirational). This year? I set it to like, 30. And I won't come close to hitting that. Right now I'm at 7 books for the year. So I don't have a big sample set to choose from. :-(

That said...

Of what I did read, a couple were pretty good:

Non-fiction:

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks- Scott J. Shapiro

Readings in Agents - Huhns, Singh (eds)

Programming Multi-Agent Systems in AgentSpeak using Jason - Bordini, Hubner, & Wooldridge

Fiction:

In Too Deep (Jack Reacher, #29) - Lee Child

[edanm]

You know, I misread your opening sentence at first and thought you said you are proud of this.

And I gotta say, I've considered a few times lowering my "target" books read per year, to make more time for studying, reading articles, etc. And I totally thought that's what you were doing since you mentioned reading papers, research etc. And I was super proud on your behalf for doing that.

So anyway, just popping in to say that maybe there's a bright side to lowering your goal.

[mindcrime]

Yeah, no doubt. I mean, don't get me wrong: I'm proud of the work I've done this year in total. I'm just not pointedly proud of having to say "I've only read 7 books this year", especially in light of my traditional norms in that regard.