This summer, it’s Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale. It’s probably not possible to read every book ever written, but my subconscious doesn’t know that. I don’t have any book I’m really ashamed I haven’t read, because I have a very optimistic mindset (which applies to books only) that I will eventually get around to everything. I almost never quit a book, but that one defeated me with stupidity. I couldn’t spend another minute inside a universe where anyone with half a brain would accept any part of that premise. Pretty early in the plot there was a coincidence so big, so impossible, so imbecilic, that I couldn’t move forward. I once bought a murder mystery by a popular author when I ran out of reading material in an airport. And Murderbot made me laugh out loud about every third page. I have never related to a killing machine more deeply.
Murderbot is now one of my favourite characters, and kind of a piece of my soul. I recently raced through Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries series, loving every minute. I don’t have any book I’m really ashamed I haven’t read, because I have a very optimistic mindset I love non-Eurocentric fables that are new to me. Such a beautiful story of impossible love and sacrifice. My last big book cry was during The Bird and the Blade by Megan Bannen. When the dam finally broke, what poured out was a pretty integrated mix of my entire reading experience. There isn’t a single book that I ever read that made me think, “I want to do that,” or even “I could do that.” When I was writing my first book, I had no conscious thought of “I want to shape my story like this or that great novel.” I think that over the course of my life I just filled up like a reservoir with all the stories I’ve ever read (and watched). I don’t think I have a true answer to this question. I’ll just have to settle for reading it a million times. I wish I’d lived in it as immersively as she must have. I’m obsessed with the world she created, Weep. I know that the only thing more gripping, more immersive than reading a story I love is writing that story.
I wish I’d had the experience of writing Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor. I was a huge fan of the first book in the series, Dread Nation, and even on the first page I could tell this one is going to be difficult to put down. I just began Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland. Applications are emphasized wherever possible and more than 200 exercises at the ends of these chapters help students test. The present volume emphasizes combinatorics, graph theory with applications to some stand network optimization problems, and algorithms to solve these problems.Chapters 0?3 cover fundamental operations involving sets and the principle of mathematical induction, and standard combinatorial topics: basic counting principles, permutations, combinations, the inclusion-exclusion principle, generating functions, recurrence relations, and an introduction to the analysis of algorithms. Mathematics educators consider it vital that their students be exposed to a course in discrete methods that introduces them to combinatorial mathematics and to algebraic and logical structures focusing on the interplay between computer science and mathematics. This concise text offers an introduction to discrete mathematics for undergraduate students in computer science and mathematics.
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