While living in Australia and more so while traveling, I read a good few books. I am definitely not a fast reader but still managed to get through about one every 3 weeks or so (more when i wasn’t working)[ I reckon that’s good with only about an hours reading time a day]. The books I like to read are usually gangster/mafia related, spy stories or true crime stories. I can drift away into a world of total concentration when reading these types of books. Since coming back to Ireland/Uk, I have not been able to get time to read that many non-technical books. When I get home from work , I am usually too tired to do more than an hour or so on the PC, a few chores and then flake in front of the TV. I do try to read a good few technical books, they are interesting but by no means do I love reading them.

I’ve started a policy of one technical book/ one non-technical/ one technical and so on. This seems like a good compromise but I wish I could drop the technical books altogether (not an option really considering the amount of stuff I want to learn). I was wondering what other people do when it come to reading and what you do to get a good balance between the two.

Book I am reading now (technical): “The cathedral and the bazaar” – Eric S. Raymond – discussing open sourse development.
Last non-technical book read: “A man in full” – Tom Wolfe.