Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

I just finished Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause and wrote a short review [1]. I'm not a huge fiction person so maybe my standards are not so high but I found it quite inspiring and relevant to my current life. Grappling with feelings about climate change and housing shortages and how to use my skills to improve the world but also setting limits and enjoying life. Well... At least those are the things I felt in the book but maybe not really the main topic. Currently reading Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow which I like but I only started reading because I found a copy in a free pile. I'd like to read some nonfiction next and I think it'll be A City is Not a Tree by Christopher W. Alexander. I think it was recommended on HN recently but I'm also doing and Urban Studies master program so the urban things have been on my mind lately. [1] https://blog.rayberger.org/book-review-the-lost-cause

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - This was best read of 2023 for me. The narration is very immersive and the author makes you very invested in the story. Shows the messy, complicated human side of things. And another plus was that it was about game dev, quite fun to learn about it through fiction.

My non-fiction pile is very peculiar to me (maths, probability, gambling, Rust and Elixir books, a backlog of a load of recent Humble Bundle deals), but I have some solid fiction recommendations: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is the sort of novel where you start to get sad as the weight of unread pages in your right starts to lighten. A novel about some friends who build some games (set in the 1990s and 2000s, with references to games of that era), it's really about friendship, social awkwardness and creativity. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke can't really take a review. When I first of it in Literary Review, the reviewer refused to disclose any plot for fear of providing spoilers, and I'm the same. I can just tell you, it's lovely. Her writing has got even better since she wrote Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and it's a really, really solid novel. Yesterday, my Dad messaged me about a current read I'll share here as a warning, and because his style is just hilarious:…