July 2024 Reading
More books read this month, which felt good. I'm a little bit closer to being back on track to finishing my goal of 40 this year.
Dune: Messiah - Frank Herbert
This was a difficult book. Much more of the story was internal - characters thinking about time and its effects on their own particular plot. I felt confused frequently and wondered how everything came together. The end was satisfying with the resolution making sense, though a lot was relegated to characters just talking about what happened to others who were mostly absent for the last third of the book.
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software - Nadia Eghbal
This was a great look at open source from a philosophical and practical perspective. I appreciated the distinctions made between the product - the code - and the people behind the code. I got it thinking that it would be a book I could use in a new course I'm teaching this year, but I don't think it really applies. Maybe some snippets here and there, but this is much more focused on libraries rather than products.
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
I picked this up not really knowing what to expect. This was an incredibly dark and horrifying look at the extreme ends of patterns which are clearly visible today.
As always, I log books as I finish on LibraryThing.
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