Weekend reading roundup

[nanila]

How did your weekend reading go? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it? (Reminder link to intended weekend reading post.)

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[nanila]

Surprisingly, I managed to start a new book (Con Men & Cutpurses by Lucy Moore).

[nonethefewer]

I started reading Coraline.

I read a few tutorials on TCP/IP and OSI reference model layers.

All with a sleeping infant on my lap! Somehow.

[legionseagle]

I finished A Very English Agent (Julian Rathbone) which I'd been plodding dutifully on with for some time. Quite glad to have finished it. There were sparks of amusement but I felt the author thought his conceits were a lot more interesting than they were. Not a patch on Kings of Albion, and I haven't noticed a desire to re-read that one, either.

At the Boat Show, I unexpectedly acquired Sailing Ancient Seas and devoured most of it on the train journey home and the DLR etc journey from ExCel to Euston. Very well worth it, including for its thorough debunking of "What the ancient peoples would have known about foreign parts" including extracts from a 6th/4th century BCE set of sailing guides to the Red Sea/Gulf of Aden/Horn of Africa.

[nanila]

Go you! And sympathies. I have spent most of the last three days reading things (mostly either a book or my phone) with a sick baby koala'd on my middle.

[nanila]

Congratulations on an unexpectedly appealing find! I might have to acquire that for my father-out-law.

[chickenfeet]

I read the Lavery as planned. Good value with enough information new to me to be worth the effort. Now I'm back on the Buchan binge.

[nanila]

Huzzah! I'm glad the Lavery was worthwhile.

[chickenfeet]

I'm looking forward to the post 1850 volume which is apparently in the works. I know far less about the subject in that period. (Which is actually a bit odd since I have a cousin who was a CPO in the RCN)