Reading List
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”
- Gary Provost
I like to read.
What I’m currently reading:
-Conversation with Friends by Sally Rooney
Here are some books I’ve read.
Fiction
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks
- Feed by M.T Anderson
- The Name of the Wind by _Patrick
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
- 15 Dogs by Andre Alexis
- Turtles All the Way Down by John Greene
- Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card
- Origin by Dan Brown
Less-fiction
- 12 Rules of Life by Jordan Peterson
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
- The Drunkard’s Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
- Unlocking the Atom by David Phillip Jackson
- Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
No-fiction (I actually enjoy these ones)
- Practical Electronics for Inventors by Scherz Monk
- An Introduction to Interfaces and Colloids by John Berg
- Process Dynamics and Control by Dale Seborg et al.
- Excel 2016 VBA and Macros by Bill Jelen and Tracy Syrstad