Reading This Book is Overdue!, on librarians and computers. It's from 2007 so it's a bit dated, but as a librarian who does IT I am its entire niche audience.
Make that The first man in Rome. And then for The grass crown.Finally secured a copy of The Grass Crown by Colleen McCullough.
If a flush toilet is a metaphor for a civilisation that wants to wash its hands of its own wastes as long as they accumulate somewhere else, then a compost toilet is both a small restitution, and a declaration: I will not turn my back on the consequences of my actions. I will not hand them over to someone else to deal with. I will not crap into clean drinking water and ush it down a pipe to be cleaned with industrial chemicals at some sewage plant I have never visited. I will fertilise my own ground with my own manure, and in doing so I will control an important part of my life in this world, and that control will give me more understanding over it. I will claw something of myself back. Even in the rain, even in winter, I will deal with my own ----.
How was it? It's on my maybe list.Finished The Anxious Generation by Haidt yesterday
How was it? It's on my maybe list.
I'm going to read Asimov "Foundation' part 2 tomorrow. They are quick to go through and show all vices of common statesmen. How they can be bought and tricked.
For some reason I find these books to be very predictable (but they are exactly about that - common human can be predicted). Maybe I read them in another life or simply in English (reading Latvian translation this year) when I was 16 and consumed a lot of books as a way to learn new English words.
There is no love in those books, politics over and over again. Someone told me they are classics worth reading just like Dune.
Oh, and I should read my own manuscript more often. Someone challenged me to write a story of at least 40 pages long and I'm at page 9.