Ken Newquist

The second book in the Vatta’s Peace series (itself a follow up to the excellent Vatta’s War books) finds its hero, Admiral Kylara Vatta, in desperate straits. She and others maroon on an arctic island have escaped certain death, finding a secret base in the process. But now the shadowy organization who’d been exploiting that base is … Read moreWhat I’m Reading: Into the Fire

The follow-up to the DevOps novel The Phoenix Project looks at the growth of the movement over the last five years. It’s packed full of great information about DevOps, Agile, and Lean practices, and could easily spawn a summer reading list of its own. The “book” is an audio recording of two of Gene Kim … Read moreWhat I’m Reading: Beyond the Phoenix Project

I accidentally read the sequel to this book, Elysium Fire, as part of my 2018 Summer Reading list. That wasn’t a big problem; the book stood fine on its own and I’m already familiar with the larger “Revelation Space” universe in which it was set. That said, I wanted to go back and see what … Read moreWhat I’m Reading: The Prefect

Oathbringer is the third book in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive series, a work of epic fantasy in the vein of The Wheel of Time … though with a tighter, better-focused narrative. As with the previous two books, I’m listening to the novel as an audiobook during my morning walks and workouts. I broke my right … Read moreWhat I’m Reading: Oathbringer