The sleek black Tesla slid off the highway and purred down the exit before stopping at the small green sign, “Wild Thing Resort one mile turn left.” “Turn that damn thing off, Desiree!” the driver…
Below are my most impactful reads of 2017, with a brief description and link to my full review. New this year is a list of impactful concepts that I encountered in my reading, followed by the full list of books I read at the bottom. Random stat: 16 of the 38 books were non-fiction (42%).
Happy reading in 2018!
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, 2014
Being Nobody, Going Nowhere by Ayya Kheema, 1987
The Idiot by Elif Batuman, 2017
I Served The King of England by Bohumil Hrabal, 1971
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Frederik Backman, 2015
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, 2015
Love and Trouble by Claire Dederer, 2017
Dederer gives us room to ‘forget’ she is a mother, and a wife, and to see and hear her as a fully dimensional person anyways.
Creating a style guide and UI component library after the company’s rebranding.. “UI style guide” is published by Youlanda Kuo in portfolio-youlanda-kuo.
So the other day I was minding my business modding, and I had to ban someone. But as usual, some context. When I was growing up, my mom had this….fixation with me going to Catholic school. I had to…