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Book two is finished. Book one's theme was - freedom and confinement are not always antitheses. And in book two, the author plays with the theme of time and relevance. Life goes on, titles and fame get insignificant... Book two got more momentum, loving the journey with Count Rostov's.

Book one finished... very well written! The confined life of an aristrocat in the new Russia, after the Revolution of 1920s, is portrayed inside hotel Metropol. I am glued to the story, but even more liking the writing!

Done with chapter 8: IO as values.
It taught me how to think IO as values and separate side-effectful IO code from the rest of the application.
I would like to practice this in my future project, but I skipped some exercises from this chapter as they were mostly based on Scala 2 and depended on third party code, hence my laziness to get my hands dirty.

Done with Chapter 7: Requirements as types

In this chapter, we designed a problem with data types. Got to know some wonderful ADTs (Algebraic Data Types) like newtype, sum type with which interconnected requirements can be designed easily. Did Scala exercises on Option, Either, case class, enum, opaque type, case-match etc.

In Part 3: Chapter 11: Lethal Gift of Livestock

So fascinating to know: what fever is, how microbes manipulates it hosts so that the microbe can win the evolution game-reproduce as many, why microbes prefer dense population and how that determined today's world.

Done with chapter 6: Error Handling
Instead of throwing exceptions, FP lets you handle error like values. Function signature indicates if error is returned from it. Option and Either are two amazing concepts that are used to propagate errors, so you can write code without worrying you have to catch exceptions and do something.