What We Weading Wednesday
Dec. 10th, 2025 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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What I've read lately:
- Katabasis by RF Kuang - Two analytic magic grad students go to Hell to try to retrieve their terrible mentor. This was inventive and ponderous and kind of inherited the kind of pretentiousness you'd expect when the main characters were Cambridge grad students. The main character is incredibly flawed and I didn't always understand her mood shifts. Still, I finished it and ended up liking it more than I disliked it.
- The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien. A good, originally-indie book on...common sense, really. Philosophy and logic and reasoning. Most of this I already had heard of and use, but it was a good rundown of things that folks might need to be reminded of, lest they fall into fallacies and such.
- Quit Like A Millionaire by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung. Current events this year have left me crunching a lot of numbers, and this was one of the first financial independence/retire early (FIRE) books to come out. I feel like it's a bit glib in some ways, and it is a bit dated now since finance and the economy move so fast, but it did have a great discussion of investing and how to calculate when you have enough to retire.
Reading now:
- The Last Watch by JS Dewes. Unsure on this one. Ragtag group of misfits and malcontents save the universe is one of my fave tropes, but temporal shenanigans are not my fave, and I don't know if this has enough oomph to hook me yet.
What I've read lately:
- Katabasis by RF Kuang - Two analytic magic grad students go to Hell to try to retrieve their terrible mentor. This was inventive and ponderous and kind of inherited the kind of pretentiousness you'd expect when the main characters were Cambridge grad students. The main character is incredibly flawed and I didn't always understand her mood shifts. Still, I finished it and ended up liking it more than I disliked it.
- The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien. A good, originally-indie book on...common sense, really. Philosophy and logic and reasoning. Most of this I already had heard of and use, but it was a good rundown of things that folks might need to be reminded of, lest they fall into fallacies and such.
- Quit Like A Millionaire by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung. Current events this year have left me crunching a lot of numbers, and this was one of the first financial independence/retire early (FIRE) books to come out. I feel like it's a bit glib in some ways, and it is a bit dated now since finance and the economy move so fast, but it did have a great discussion of investing and how to calculate when you have enough to retire.
Reading now:
- The Last Watch by JS Dewes. Unsure on this one. Ragtag group of misfits and malcontents save the universe is one of my fave tropes, but temporal shenanigans are not my fave, and I don't know if this has enough oomph to hook me yet.