Doing
I read a lot of fiction and try to keep learning interesting things. I also listen to a load of music, mainly on the darker end of the spectrum. Inspired by various blogs I decided to track what I’ve been consuming in 2025, mainly in case I find it interesting later.
Also see my projects page, which is a giant jumble of projects I’ve either done or started.
February 2025
Fiction
- Read: A Conventional Boy by Charles Stross
- Reading: BRZRKR Deluxe Edition by Keanu Reeves et al.
- Listened: Absolution by Jeff VenderMeer
Non-fiction
- Reading: How To Measure Anything in Cyber Security Risk by Hubbard and Seiersen
- Still Reading: The Business-Minded CISO by Bryan C. Kissinger
- Still Reading: CISSP Official Study Guide
Learning
Music
- Dream Theater - Parasomnia
- Antimatter - Parallel Matter
- Pothamus - Abur
- Wyatt E. - Zamzaru ultu qereb…
- Saor - Amidst the Ruins
- Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun
Late 2024 - January 2025
I can’t actually remember how far back this goes, probably from Autumn 2025. I’ve tried to list them in reverse chronological order.
Fiction
- Read: Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
- Read: Usurpation by Sue Burke
- Read: Polostan by Neal Stephenson
- Read: Tidal Creatures by Seanan McGuire
- Read: Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby
- Read: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Read: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Listened: The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Listened: The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Listened: The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville
- Listened: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Non-fiction
- Reading: The Business-Minded CISO by Bryan C. Kissinger
- Still Reading: CISSP Official Study Guide
Learning
Favourites
- Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- The Algabraist by Iain M Banks
- The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey
- Revelation Space series
- Aurora Rising series
- Laundry Files series by Charles Stross
- Embers of War series by Gareth L Powell
- Murderbot series by Martha Wells
- Monk and Robot and other work by Becky Chambers
- New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Borne by Jeff VenderMeer
- Children of Eden series by Chris Beckett
- Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
- Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovich
- Bas-Lag series by China Miéville, plus Embassytown and the City and the City