Too busy to read, too busy to think
Fading Memories was a book log, originally. But I haven't read -- really read, from cover to cover, or at least the majority of chapters -- a book for a few weeks now. Dostojevsky is gathering dust in the study, Sophrony has somehow lost its way and now sits next to Java 2D Graphics and Accelerated C++, De Zilveren Hazewind did grab me, but then I put it aside and forgot to pick up again. De Drie Musketiers is bed-time reading, and the travel journal of Huc and Gabet was fun, but in small doses. And that fifth book in the Belisarius series, by Drake and Flint, Tide of Victory was fun to read, and I actually finished it, but that was because it didn't demand much from my mind.
Well, and maybe I read some more that I forgot about too soon to be able to write about, maybe mixing blogging about KDE, the garden and all the rest weakens the sense of purpose, the fixity of determination a bit. Which reminds me... Haven't written, lately, and I still have to send the WNIS (work-not-in-submission) to the next slushpile.
On the other hand, we've got a new bookcase for the living room, with extra shelves, room for at least another two hundred books, and the old bookcase has gone to the study, where it sits patiently waiting for more books, too. So there's hope.
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