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Rated Thinking, Fast and Slow 10/10

Finished reading Tattoo: Symbol and Meanings

Rated The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House 10/10

Wants to read Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

Rated The Giver Graphic Novel 8/10

Rated Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia 8/10

Rated A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow 8/10

Wants to read A Memory Called Empire

Wants to read Islands in the Net

Rated Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House 8/10

Finished reading Weeds of the Northeast

Rated Crafting Interpreters 10/10

Wants to read The Armour of Light

Wants to read Footfall

Rated Life After the Third Reich: The Struggle to Rise from the Nazi Ruins 8/10

Finished reading Thrill Switch

Finished reading The Mirror & the Light

Rated The Rose That Grew From Concrete 10/10

Rated The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 10/10

Rated We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe 6/10

Rated The Physics of Hockey 8/10

Finished reading Behind the Bench: Inside the Minds of Hockey's Greatest Coaches

Wants to read The Wandering Earth: Classic Science Fiction Collection

Rated System Collapse 10/10

Rated Functional Programming in Scala 10/10

Fantastic book about functional programming in general using the Scala language.<br/><br/>I really liked the way they went through some well chosen examples before introducing higher level abstractions like Monoids, Applicatives and Monads. That really helped to cement the general pattern to look for and how to structure your code to use these abstractions. It helped that the book used Scala which doesn't necessarily include special support for these sort of abstractions, as you got to see how to build them yourself and it didn't gloss over how they worked. Which is sometimes a failing of other Haskell FP material and it's certainly refreshing not to hear about burritos or such nonsense in describing Monads.<br/><br/>I felt that the use of algebras, while interesting and something I'll likely lean on, was a bit vague and not followed through as much as I'd have liked.<br/><br/>Fantastic book, that I'll be coming back to again. I view this more of a FP book rather than a Scala book so I think it has value for people interested in Haskell, OCaml or other FP languages.