Half the book is about expositions on how we can possibly live on the moon. It’s about a girl, on a moon colony, sabotaging something, getting into a murder plot, escaping, and doing a lot of stuff and then lives happily every after. I didn’t read the book, so I thought, OK, let’s pick this one up.Īrtemis is the sort of book that you could probably read through within a few days, which was exactly what I did. So, to make life easy, I start off the year with Artemiswhich is completely unrelated to our work and industry but works as a warm up to reading more related books.Īrtemis is written by Andy Weir, the guy that wrote The Martian, which was turned into a film starring Matt Damon as the guy stuck in Mars for God knows how many days. And specifically those that has actual papers and does not consist of me staring into a screen. This year, as every year, starts with amazing resolutions and one of it is to get back on track to read BOOKS, specifically those related to our work and industry. Obviously life doesn’t work out the way you plan, so after that period, reading has been limited to just online stuff and magazines. I recall reading several translations of Les Miserables in the university’s library and wasting away in one corner when I was supposed to be studying something else.

The books tackled were War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, David Copperfield (not the magician, but the book by Dickens), all of Thomas Hardy’s (not the actor, but the English novelist and poet) works and so on.

So the books read weren’t your typical books. That’s an average of 2.5 books per month! And back then I wasn’t keen to pursue technology or anything, I was trying to pursue a career in literature. When I was back in college days, there were years where I targeted 30 books read per year. One of the things under New Year Resolution would be to read at least one book per month.

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