http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2026-01-06T18:08:53Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2026-01/2025-reading-list/ <p>Another year, another 121 books completed, or about 1 every 3 days. My <a href="https://www.iamcal.com/misc/reading-list/#2025">2025 reading list</a> has a very brief review/summary of each one.</p> <p>Highlights were <em>The Thursday Murder Club</em> by Richard Osman, <em>Piranesi</em> by Susanna Clarke, <em>The Repeat Room</em> by Jesse Ball and <em>Little Eyes</em> by Samanta Schweblin.</p> <p>While I strive not to be, I can be pretty inconsistent in my reading pace. More books take 1 day to read than any other length of time, with 72% in 3 days or less and 93% within a week. The longest took a full 23 days (because I was on a vacation where I didn't read much).</p> <p class="bimg"><img src="/images/blog/2025_books_histo.png" width="600" height="371" /></p> <p>I read much less on vacation than when I'm at home, and I read the most when I get really dug into a series I love - October was 13 books from Mick Herron's Slough House.</p> <p class="bimg"><img src="/images/blog/2025_books_month.png" width="600" height="371" /></p> <p>With ~20 years of my reading history tracked, my biggest take away is that there are still so many great books to find :)</p> 2026-01-06T18:08:53Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2023-01/2022-reading-list/ <p>I've updated my <a href="https://www.iamcal.com/misc/reading-list/#2022">2022 reading list</a> with all the 112 books I read in the year.</p> <p>Highlights were <em>Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow</em>, by Gabrielle Zevin and <em>A Memory Called Empire</em> by Arkady Martine.</p> 2023-01-09T21:18:09Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2021-01/10164/ <p>I've updated my <a href="https://www.iamcal.com/misc/reading-list/#2020-01">2020 reading list</a>. In contrast to 2019, where I finished 116 books, I only completed 72 in 2020. This is largely due to the pandemic, no longer having a daily commute, but also not traveling around the world.</p> <p>My favorites of the year:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Agency - Drones, Book 3, by William Gibson</strong> - Excellent finale to his latest trilogy and set in San Francisco. <ul> <li><strong>Edit:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/deflatermouse?lang=en">Simon Wistow</a> points out that it's really book 2, and that Archangel is 'book 1.5'. A third book might still happen</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Billion Dollar Whale, by Bradley Hope</strong> - Incredible story of the man who stole billions of dollars from the Malaysian government and has evaded justice</li> </ul> 2021-01-18T18:18:33Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2018-08/books-2018-06-07/ <p>I've updated my <a href="https://www.iamcal.com/misc/reading-list/2018/06">2018 reading list</a> to include my June and July picks.</p> 2018-08-06T22:34:47Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2016-09/cliff-notes-rainbow/ <p>Some great <a href="http://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/links/culture/rainbow.bell.html">notes</a> for each chapter in Gravity's Rainbow to try and follow how everything is connected. I've been trying to find out how many characters are mentioned during the book, but can't find it anywhere.</p> 2016-09-08T23:28:43Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-06/2694/ <p>writing a book <a href="https://github.com/stoyan/Book-of-Speed">on github</a> is pretty cool i guess</p> 2011-06-28T23:33:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2010-11/2585/ <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookland">bookland</a> is a fictional country used for mapping ISBNs to EANs</p> 2010-11-19T06:09:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-12/2443/ <p>the "i can read movies" series of <a href="http://spacesick.com/books.html">book covers</a> is incredibly well done</p> 2009-12-14T03:26:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-12/2422/ <p>the twilight formula <a href="http://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight">explained</a>! nice illustrations</p> 2009-12-01T04:26:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-11/2414/ <p>there's not really any excuse for not contributing to <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nickd/cadence-and-slang-is-a-book-about-interaction-design">nickd's book project</a> on kickstarter</p> 2009-11-22T02:31:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)