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Yes, I am reading a book about beavers.

5% in a book of such heft is milestone, and I'll report my progress in such increments to keep myself motivated to finish. So far, I've learned that New York's govt at the beginning of the 20th century operated without any budget; and that a group of gentlemen uncovered fraud cases by walking around the city, counting bags of cement at construction sites, and running them against official records from the press.

This book clocks in at over 1200 pages, but size aside, any author who can make me read for half an hour straight about the intricacies of urban planning in New York in the first half of the 20th century takes precedence over anything else I am currently reading.

To finish before May 23 for a book club

The chapter on tails is blowing my mind. Especially the bit where Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, says "Our hit ratio is *way too high* right now."

Even though this book starts out incredibly bloated, and you can see it's based on an article by the chains of paragraphs that do nothing more than paraphrase each other, I gotta love the second chapter for giving a slap in the face to all the biography lovers who pore over billionaires' memoirs in the hopes of replicating their success. I detest biographies, and this book has given me another reason for it.

Ładne rzeczy, sam początek a ja już łzy w oczach i musiałem przerwać żeby się nie popłakać w kawiarni

Dzięki kioskowej kolekcji zaczynam swoją przygodę ze Światem Dysku. Może już kiedyś czytałem jakieś pozycje z tego cyklu, ale już nic nie pamiętam.

Tylko trochę dziwna kolejność tomów jest w tym wydaniu, taka niechronologiczna. Nie pasuje do żadnego klucza, który znalazłem w necie. Ten tom jest jako pierwszy. Na razie jesy fajnie

Helen Burns [*]