Tag reading

Words, Words, Words

Read­ing is my pri­mary pas­time. There's a nat­ural incli­na­tion to think that if you don't read books that you don't like read­ing. Books are great, but read­ing isn't all about books.

When I want to learn about cur­rent web tech­nol­ogy and design? Web­sites and web-derived authors: Smash­ing Mag­a­zine. A List Apart. Net Tuts. A Book Apart.

Cur­rent events apart from the day-to-day head­lines? Atlantic Mag­a­zine.

When I have to give a big pre­sen­ta­tion at work? Books. I pur­chase and read Con­fes­sions of a Pub­lic Speaker. (Great book!)

Games. Movies. Rela­tion­ships. Par­ent­ing. Eco­nom­ics. Finances. Pol­i­tics. Phi­los­o­phy. Career. Pro­gram­ming. Fit­ness. Design. Gardening.

Books. Blogs. Forums. Web­sites. Twit­ter. Mag­a­zines. Op-eds. Essays. The Boston Metro that some­one just put down in the Red Line.

And that doesn't count undi­rected read­ing of the ran­dom and inter­est­ing cor­ners of the inter­net.

And then to relax? Fiction.

All read­ing. Read, read, read.

Finding a Great Author

The author is John Scalzi. I recently fin­ished his first book "Old Man's War" and the fol­lowup book "The Ghost Brigades". It's like dis­cov­er­ing a favorite new fla­vor of ice cream that you didn't know about. I'll write a full review later, but it's great when you fin­ish a book and you rush online to see how much more great read­ing is ahead.