- ‘“Magic” Might Just Be The Best Nas Album Of The Millennium‘ by Deen for Passion of the Weiss
- ‘Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network’ by John Goerzen
- [PDF] ‘iCloud Private Relay Overview’ by Apple
- ‘The Assassination of Drakeo the Ruler’ by Jeff Weiss for LA Magazine
- ‘Hikaru Utada Returns, With ‘BAD Mode’ & A Better Sense of Self’ by Bradley Stern for Billboard
packetcat reads 2022 Week 2 – The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Pages: 381
Purchased from: Kobo
A lovely dark fairy tale set in the Russian wilderness. I love how the author borrows from Russian mythology and folk tales to weave a narrative that doesn’t feel like a well trodden path. It occasionally borrows tropes from the fairy tale genre but the book never relies on the tropes to carry the narrative.
I’ve added the sequel to my wishlist but I will save reading it for later!
What I’ve Read This Week (January 10 2022 to January 16 2022)
- The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
- ‘Ghost in the ethernet optic’ by benjojo
- ‘Using a mild Twitter addiction to actually get things done’ by nick comer
- ‘The Algorithmic Ad Monster Cometh for Podcasts’ by John Gruber
- ‘Consistency Sin’ by Craig Hockenberry
- ‘Mint’s Games of the Year 2021’ by Mint
- ‘A Blockchain Primer for Blockchain Skeptics’ by Bruno Dias
- ‘BGP in 2021 – The BGP Table’ by Geoff Huston for the APNIC blog
- ‘Back To Normal Isn’t Enough’ by Kelsey McKinney for Defector
packetcat reads 2022 Week 1 – Vicious by V. E. Schwab
This is the first week of these posts! I am doing a 2022 challenge of reading one book a week.
Vicious is a very interesting take on the superhero genre. I am normally not a fan of superhero fiction and I was initially not particularly into the premise of the book but as the story developed I became increasingly intrigued and I couldn’t put it down.
The feud between the protagonist and the antagonist builds up throughout the novel in an organic way and by the time the book ends, the final “showdown” felt like a true epic superhero battle.
A fantastic start to my year of reading!
What I’ve Read This Week (January 3 2022 to January 9 2022)
- ‘The new American dream: getting paid to do nothing?’ by Emma Rindlisbacher for The Verge
- ‘Five former SpaceX employees speak out about harassment at the company’ by Loren Grush for The Verge
- ‘A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution’ by Ian Beer & Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero
- ‘USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards and Cables’ by Glenn Fleishman for TidBits
- Vicious by V. E. Schwab