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-    <p>I bought a copy of <em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em> from my local Half Price Books when I was in high school. It remained on my shelf for all of high school, and I donated it (probably back to Half Price Books) when I went to college. Last month, over 15 years after I first bought the book, I finally read The Count of Monte Cristo. My first impression of the book was that it was boring. I thought it would be a lot more swashbuckling than it was – a tale of revenge! Perhaps I was also mixing up The Count of Monte Cristo with the author’s other famous work, The Three Musketeers. Even though I had a hard time getting into the book, once I was in it, I loved it. It’s a slow burn revenge plot – scenarios take years (and many chapters) for the Count of Monte Cristo to set up, but the final reveal is always incredible.</p>
+    <p>I bought a copy of <em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em> from my local Half Price Books when I was in high school. It remained on my shelf for all of high school, and I donated it (probably back to Half Price Books) when I went to college. Last month, over 15 years after I first bought the book, I finally read <em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em>. My first impression of the book was that it was boring. I thought it would be a lot more swashbuckling than it was – a tale of revenge! Perhaps I was also mixing up <em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em> with the author’s other famous work, <em>The Three Musketeers</em>. Even though I had a hard time getting into the book, once I was in it, I loved it. It’s a slow burn revenge plot – scenarios take years (and many chapters) for the Count of Monte Cristo to set up, but the final reveal is always incredible.</p>
 
 <p><em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em> was originally serialized in eighteen parts over the course of a year and a half (1844-1846), and it reads like it was serialized – lots of recaps and subtle reminders to the reader. There are so many characters, many with aliases or names that have changed (Fernand becomes the Count of Morcerf; Benedetto is known for a time as Prince Andrea Cavalcant).</p>
 

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-      <p><p>I bought a copy of <em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em> from my local Half Price Books when I was in high school. It remained on my shelf for all of high school, and I donated it (probably back to Half Price Books) when I went to college. Last month, over 15 years after I first bought the book, I finally read The Count of Monte Cristo. My first impression of the book was that it was boring. I thought it would be a lot more swashbuckling than it was – a tale of revenge! Perhaps I was also mixing up The Count of Monte Cristo with the author’s other famous work, The Three Musketeers. Even though I had a hard time getting into the book, once I was in it, I loved it. It’s a slow burn revenge plot – scenarios take years (and many chapters) for the Count of Monte Cristo to set up, but the final reveal is always incredible.</p>
+      <p><p>I bought a copy of <em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em> from my local Half Price Books when I was in high school. It remained on my shelf for all of high school, and I donated it (probably back to Half Price Books) when I went to college. Last month, over 15 years after I first bought the book, I finally read <em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em>. My first impression of the book was that it was boring. I thought it would be a lot more swashbuckling than it was – a tale of revenge! Perhaps I was also mixing up <em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em> with the author’s other famous work, <em>The Three Musketeers</em>. Even though I had a hard time getting into the book, once I was in it, I loved it. It’s a slow burn revenge plot – scenarios take years (and many chapters) for the Count of Monte Cristo to set up, but the final reveal is always incredible.</p>
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="http://localhost:4000/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="http://localhost:4000/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2025-06-08T18:07:11-04:00</updated><id>http://localhost:4000/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Devin Logan, Technical Writer and Editor</title><subtitle></subtitle><author><name> </name></author><entry><title type="html">Reading Ann Patchett’s nine novels</title><link href="http://localhost:4000/2025/06/08/patchett.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Reading Ann Patchett’s nine novels" /><published>2025-06-08T00:00:00-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-08T00:00:00-04:00</updated><id>http://localhost:4000/2025/06/08/patchett</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://localhost:4000/2025/06/08/patchett.html"><![CDATA[<p>Over the past 33 years, Ann Patchett has published nine novels at a fairly regular cadence (2-4 years in between books). I can trace my interest in Patchett’s books to a <a href="https://cupofjo.com/2019/10/17/best-fall-books-2019/">2019 post on the blog Cup of Jo</a> about the book <em>The Dutch House</em>. After reading that post, I promptly got on the library waitlist (it was very long), got off of it, and then never read the book. In fact, five years went by before I read a book by Ann Patchett.</p>
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 <p>In September 2024, I randomly read <em>Bel Canto</em> and was completely enthralled. I considered reading her other books but none sounded as amazing as <em>Bel Canto</em>, so I took a few months off. In January 2025, I read <em>Tom Lake</em> and was once again enthralled. Over the subsequent three months, I read the rest of her novels.</p>
 
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 <p>I worked as a technical writer at Google for almost 7 years. (And wrote <a href="https://blog.google/inside-google/life-at-google/sowhat-does-technical-writer-actually-do/">this blog post</a> for Google’s The Keyword back in 2021, which captured my own journey into technical writing.) During that time, I interviewed a lot of candidates, including some people who were switching careers. Now, I’m a freelance technical writer and have spent a lot of time refining my resume and applying to jobs.</p>
 
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 <p>I first read <em>The True Deceiver</em> in August 2022. Since then, I’ve reread it fully twice, and I often pick it up to read a passage or two. Every time I read it, I realize something new about a character or truly appreciate a line I’d previously just glossed over. It’s tense and comforting and beautiful, and I think I’ll reread it every year for the rest of my life.</p>
 
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+<script data-goatcounter="https://dlog.goatcounter.com/count" async="" src="//gc.zgo.at/count.js"></script>]]></content><author><name> </name></author><category term="books" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[My favorite book is The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson, famed creator of the Moomin comics. It was published in 1982 (late in Jansson’s life; she started creating the Moomin comics in the 1940s) and released in English in 2009.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Finally reading *The Count of Monte Cristo*</title><link href="http://localhost:4000/2025/02/17/montecristo.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Finally reading *The Count of Monte Cristo*" /><published>2025-02-17T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2025-02-17T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>http://localhost:4000/2025/02/17/montecristo</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://localhost:4000/2025/02/17/montecristo.html"><![CDATA[<p>I bought a copy of <em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em> from my local Half Price Books when I was in high school. It remained on my shelf for all of high school, and I donated it (probably back to Half Price Books) when I went to college. Last month, over 15 years after I first bought the book, I finally read <em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em>. My first impression of the book was that it was boring. I thought it would be a lot more swashbuckling than it was – a tale of revenge! Perhaps I was also mixing up <em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em> with the author’s other famous work, <em>The Three Musketeers</em>. Even though I had a hard time getting into the book, once I was in it, I loved it. It’s a slow burn revenge plot – scenarios take years (and many chapters) for the Count of Monte Cristo to set up, but the final reveal is always incredible.</p>
 
 <p><em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em> was originally serialized in eighteen parts over the course of a year and a half (1844-1846), and it reads like it was serialized – lots of recaps and subtle reminders to the reader. There are so many characters, many with aliases or names that have changed (Fernand becomes the Count of Morcerf; Benedetto is known for a time as Prince Andrea Cavalcant).</p>
 

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-  <p>I write about technical things for technical and nontechnical audiences. More specifically, I:</p>
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+  <li>SDK docs for <a href="https://buildwithfern.com/">Fern</a> (current).</li>
+  <li>Walk-through videos and docs consulting for Class Constructor Corp.</li>
+  <li>Payment processing docs for Dowling Community Garden</li></ul>
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+<p>I write about technical things for technical and nontechnical audiences. More specifically, I:</p>
 
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