Some reading updates. I completed:
- Wild Design: A really fun overview of cool things "built" by organisms. It's almost a children's book for adults. The pictures are really strong contemplation material. I'm still blown away that diatoms (single-celled plants) build glass-like silica containers for themselves when they're born, then just hang out in them for life, taking in sunlight and keeping out predators.
- Moms: A graphic novel about divorced working class older women in Korea. Wow, that is a hard life. Despite the struggles, I like how the culture and economics work out such that the moms can go out to eat a lat. Also, any time there is anything raunchy in a Korean context, I am shocked because 90% of what I've heard about Korea I've heard from my parents, so it's always nice to be exposed to another perspective on, like, an entire nation filled with adults.
I started:
- The Game Players of Titan: It's got that weird PKD energy, and it's set in a depopulated world with interesting properties as a result of the depopulation.
- Dig It! Building Bound to the Ground: This is a straight-up coffee table book, but it has tons of great pictures and maps of underground structures, which are things I can't resist.