Pete's Log: Of Books and Trees

Entry #2621, (Books, Writing, n such, Life in General)
(posted when I was 46 years old.)

Jamie is doing a thing called Februlage which gives her a theme for a collage for every day in February. The starting theme today was trees and I found it peaceful to be in the same room in which Jamie was crafting. Here's her lovely result:

A collage of tree pictures made by Jamie

Tomorrow's theme is Shells, and the fact that I could interpret both trees and shells in a computery way gives me ideas that I will avoid pursuing, since a) I don't have any pictures of red-black trees or binary trees handy to cut out and b) I have other things I should be doing.

Like reading for example. My current to-read pile has gotten out of hand, and I'm pretty sure there are more books around the house that belong on there.

Pile of books: Tad Williams - The Dragonbone Chair, W.H. Auden - Selected Poems, Thomas Mann - Der Zauberberg, Terry Pratchet & Stephen Baxter - The Long Earth and The Long War, Cixin Liu - The Three-Body Problem, Kaliane Bradley - The Ministry of Time, List Klotz - Subtract, Dorothy Sayers - Whose Body? Julian Rubinstein - The Holly, Timothy Egan - A Fever in the Heartland, Cory Doctorow - The Bessel, Roger Zelazny - The Great Book of Amber, James McBride - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, R. F. Kuang - Babel, Matt Dinniman - Dungeon Crawler Carl, Rosemary Kirstein - The Lamguage of Power, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone - This Is How You Lose the Time War

I haven't completed a book yet this year, although I'm working on at least three right now.

Three books: How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims, Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage and The Lost Steersman by Rosemary Kirstein

I say "at least" because I just remembered I also started A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith way back in March and I don't think I finished it. Not sure why. I think I might have misplaced it for a while. Does it just belong back on the to-read pile at this point?

Either way, I'm excited to see what Jamie comes up with tomorrow.