I'm feeling like I'm back in the swing of things as I finished two and made progress on two more

Just Finished

The Concrete Island — J.G. Ballard

I wanted this to like Baron in the Trees, and it wasn't and that's probably on me to pick up Ballard and expect Calvino. Somehow the ways this was fantastical and isolating ended up being different than I wanted it to be and it felt like it said a lot less as a consequence. Oh well

Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age — Ann M. Blair

I read the first half of this months ago, but only recently picked it back up. A lot of what I had read previously had focused on note taking prior to the printing press, but the remaining section was largely on published collections of quotations & writing, and the rise of, broadly, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other books of the like.

I think there's always a joy in reading something that is both dry and interesting. This wasn't an exciting book by any means but I thought it was fun and informative, and gave me a lot of room to reflect more broadly in ways that both printing and computers have and haven't changed how we do things

Now Reading

Last Comes the Raven — Italo Calvino

Oh yeah, I can just read Calvino if I want to read some Calvino. I feel like he can be a bit hit and miss but I'm about half way through this and I'm enjoying it so far (though if I'm honest, the stories I've liked the most have been in the first third or so)

Ducks — Kate Beaton

Literally just started this one, have only read the beginning introduction but I like Beaton and I bet I'll like this