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shauna

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governance nerd; open source developer & community manager; novelist; labor activist; NWSL fangirl

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What are your thoughts on DNF (Did Not Finish)-ing books? Do you feel guilty about it? Do you worry you missed out on something? Or are you confident in dropping a book and reaching for the next one?

At what point are you most likely to DNF, if ever? What sorts of things cause you to DNF?

My friend, book blogger Kriti, was musing on these questions a while back, and it sparked this new post: https://armedwithabook.com/dealing-with-dnf-the-practice-of-did-not-finish/

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@skaeth @bookstodon With the pandemic I got really into taking ebooks out of the library and the extreme ease of switching books made me much more likely to DNF than I used to be. I usually try to make it 10% of the way into the book (unless it's really long, in which case I aim for 30 pages) before giving up, unless I'm sure I won't finish before that.

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@skaeth @bookstodon Things that make me DNF include: a narrative voice I find grating, topics that bore me or really bother me (I was really enjoying one book until it killed off a cat, and I immediately stopped reading), or when absolutely nothing is happening. I like pretty words, but I need a plot.

Every once in a while there's a book I know I'm just in the wrong headspace for, and I put it aside. I did that with Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series. But that's more DNFFN (DNF For Now).

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I'm looking for recommendations for books set in the tech industry. I'm interested in any genre (except, like, kids books, but why would you have middle grade fiction or a picture book set in the tech industry) and am open to wide definitions of tech. Like, a book about an uber driver counts, a book about a Silicon Valley venture capitalist counts, a book about a programmer at a mid-sized firm in Ohio counts.

Thank you in advance!

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@pwramsey @bookstodon Thank you so much! I actually meant any genre of fiction book - I've edited the post to say so. I will definitely check out Microserfs! And Close to the Machine, as a memoir, might be near enough to fiction to count.

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@jared @bookstodon I love Lifecycle of Software Objects. Ted Chiang is one of my favorite living writers - and the short story writer I most look up to/want to write like.

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@matthew @bookstodon Thank you!

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@yvonnezlam @bookstodon I don't usually read mysteries, but I'm interested in trying these out!

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@luis_in_brief @bookstodon Just fiction - sorry I forgot to specify

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@trif @bookstodon I read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow last year (and last year and last year)

it was very good, and gave me a new appreciation for games (although my favorite game-related novel I read last year, and surprisingly I read 3, was Leonard Richardson's Constellation Games (full disclosure: Leonard is a friend))

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