{"id":4207,"date":"2018-07-21T22:37:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T18:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/books\/reading-listening-updates\/"},"modified":"2018-07-21T22:38:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T18:38:22","slug":"reading-listening-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/books\/reading-listening-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading &#038; Listening Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Started reading (on my Kindle) &#8220;Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norell&#8221; by Susanna Clarke. Wow, never imagined I&#8217;d read a book like this and love it. I am hooked to the olden English used by the author and the way she writes &#8211; the long descriptions, details, foot notes, etc. Reads like a children&#8217;s novel from a long ago age. I am about 25% done. Looking forward to finishing it.<\/li>\n<li>Going to start listening to in Audible &#8220;The Dead Mountaineer&#8217;s Inn: One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre&#8221; by the Strugstsky brothers. I listened to the introduction. Sounds like an interesting book fingers crossed.<\/li>\n<li>Listened to <a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/+K8lh8cyNY\">this episode<\/a> of the Vector podcast. It&#8217;s an interview by Rene Ritchie of Ashraf Eassa who is an expert in CPUs, and is a good listen.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of podcasts, I came across (and loved the first episode of) a new podcast from Microsoft. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"https:\/\/behindthetech.libsynpro.com\">Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott<\/a>. Going to listen to the second episode next.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started reading (on my Kindle) &#8220;Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norell&#8221; by Susanna Clarke. Wow, never imagined I&#8217;d read a book like this and love it. I am hooked to the olden English used by the author and the way she writes &#8211; the long descriptions, details, foot notes, etc. Reads like a children&#8217;s novel from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/books\/reading-listening-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading &#038; Listening Updates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[145],"tags":[840,754,839],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}