Weekend reading

[nanila]

What are you planning to read this weekend? Everything counts! Menus, maps and mysteries included.

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[nanila]

Having gotten stuck with Jet, which is really badly written although the subject matter is quite interesting, I've moved on to Skunk Works, a firsthand account of the aerospace programme at Lockheed Martin that produced the first stealth fighters and the SR-71 Blackbird, which is both interesting and well written. I'm enjoying it very much and would like to steal another hour or two to gobble up a few more chapters this weekend.

[rmc28]

Ooh, ooh, I've read this and really liked it. Hope you get those spare hours.

[nanila]

I got a spare 45 minutes, which is pretty amazing given the current state of my life, and devoured another chapter. Still enjoying very much!

[ironed_orchid]

I'm re-reading Kraken and trying not to stay up too late.

[nanila]

:) Sounds lovely.

[rmc28]

A couple of SCOTUS judgements :-)

[weaverbird]

Me, too! \o/\o/\o/

[nanila]

O frabjous day! :D

[dhampyresa]

Congrats!

[rmc28]

:-) I'm not even American, I'm just very happy.

[dhampyresa]

Darkness Over Cannae. *nods decisively*

PRIDE BANNERS!

[nanila]

YAY! :D

[fred_mouse]

Having read on an info-graphic that reading an hour a day in ones chosen field brings one to international expert in seven years, and being thoroughly bemused at such an idea, have gone back to reading in my chosen field ... hoping to finish the first two chapters of R Graphics.

[nanila]

Interesting notion - I imagine the reading has to be pretty focused/targeted? I wonder how tight the focus actually needs to be for it to be effective.

[fred_mouse]

I'm figuring that anything that relates is better than nothing. So, at the moment, pretty simple stuff (making pretty graphs in my analysis program of choice). Later, I hope to work my way through the other text books on my bedside table, and then the folder of journal articles that I've been collecting for the last ten years. I'm probably also going to read the various '100' level texts that I have, so that I'm familiar enough with them to be able to point students at the right sections.

My hope is that the 'easy' stuff will be come so routine that I can scan through a text and find out what is different/new, and that the 'hard' stuff will become clearer.