Tal Cohen's Bookshelf

My 2025 read log is more of the same: fiction and nonfiction, James Bond (the end of it) and flying castles, Roman history and criticism of Hasidic history, bad reviews of Homer's work and fascinating works on literary theory, and much much more.

My read log for 2024 includes, as in all past years, lots and lots of books about ancient Greece, but also (oh, the novelty!)

A bulk update about my reading in over last nine month.

Mostly about the Odyssey... but also about other comedies, as well as an alternative history time travel literary mystery, and more.

A time-traveler's survival guide, two novels involving book-loving Japanese people, two retellings of the Greek mythology, and five comedies made most of my reading for the last three months of 2022.

I've read many books in my life, and many programs, but this was the first time I've read a book which is simply the documentation of a program; and a particularly short one at that (this isn't Knuth's Literate Programming project).

I've spent much of April to June making progress on the second volume of The Complete Greek Drama, but didn't finish this hefty tome by the end of June.

Greek tragedies, and sci-fi, and manga, and decision-making theory, oh my.

Reading the Iliad twice doesn't mean I can't read it twice... again.

Over the past three months I found myself reading science fiction books in preparation for a sequel, science fiction books in preparation for a TV series, a children's book that got me thinking about a new science fiction idea, an important translated book

A few more Bildungsromane, in English, Hebrew, and German, and a great interview with a comic artist.

The bildungsroman that started it all... and then another one.

In early 2021, I've read about algorithms to live by, but also freshened up my C++, in case I have to deal with actual algorithms.

Lots of Jane Austen; even more Greek plays; and a book on management by the head of Pixar.

Evil by Design is a brilliant UX design book; in fact, it's the best of three different UX design books that are part of my read log for September and October.