What Am I Reading Wednesday - January 3

[lebateleur]

First Wednesday of the year! Let's try to get these entries back on track.

What I Read Last Week
This week I read Rebecca Roanhorse's Tread of Angels, Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin illustrated by Kate Greenaway, Gerald Morris's The Ballad of Sir Dinadan, and Meng Shi Xi's Thousand Autumns, all of which I reviewed in this reading roundup and so won't revisit here.


What I'm Currently Reading

Celtic Tree Rituals – Sharlyn Hildalgo
It was two bucks at the library booksale, so I thought, why not?

Wings of Fury – Emily R. King
This started off pretty strong and has steadily descended into genre tropes in its latter half, but oh well, I'm strapped in for the ride by this point.

Translation State – Ann Leckie
I gave ma soeur the entire Ancillary series for Thingsgiving, and seeing as this is the volume I've read the least number of times, I decided to pick it back up.

Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics – Lucy K. Tsado and Robert Osgood
So badly written I'm basically hatereading at this point.


What I'm Reading Next
This week I acquired Mara Freeman's Kindling the Celtic Spirit, Philip Pullman's Once Upon a Time in the North, and Lynda Rutledge's West with Giraffes.

これで以上です。

Comments

[queenlua]

i've found most books on cybersecurity to be terribly written (and often obviously written not because the author felt like they had somethign important to say, but because they needed "cred" to get consulting gigs, or just wanted the shiny badge on their linkedin)... which is a shame, because it's such a cool topic. sorry to hear this one's another one of the bad ones lol

[lebateleur]

Agreed, the authorial craft of books on the topic and often leave something to be desired, for sure. But what broke me with this book was its authors' repeated insistence that entrants to the field need the ability to write logically and clearly in addition to technical skills—while being incapable of writing logically and clearly themselves. As you say, this one definitely reeks of cash cow.