2025 Reading Log
in Reading
Fiction
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
Sphere by Michael Crichton
Congo by Michael Crichton
Non-Fiction
The NVIDIA Way by Tae Kim
Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Sellout by Dan Ozzi
The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuściński (re-read)
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Excerpts
The River of Doubt
from Chapter 21:
At 7:00 a.m. on March 23, the men carefully climbed into their dugouts under the cloak of a white mist. “The day was overcast and the air was heavy with vapor,” Roosevelt would recall. “Ahead of us the shrouded river stretched between dim walls of forest, half-seen in the mist.” The landscape ahead, behind, and on either side of them was so obscured that it must have seemed as if anything could rise out of that fog, from a band of Indians to a brutal series of rapids. As the sun rose, it slowly began to burn off the vapor, “and loomed through it in a red splendor that changed first to gold and then to molten white,” Roosevelt wrote. “In the dazzling light, under the brilliant blue of the sky, every detail of the magnificent forest was vivid to the eye: the great trees, the network of bush ropes, the caverns of greenery, where thick-leaved vines covered all things
