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Summer reading list
I’ve been enjoying a lot of reading time lately, and I am taking advantage by floating between as many books as I feel like it. It’s wonderful.
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The Overstory
The Overstory by Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2019. I came across it on a list of the 30 best non-fiction books of the last 30 years (Archive.today link). It was long (502 pages). I finished it and liked it very much, but I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone.
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Crown shyness
I just learned about this phenomenon where the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, creating distinct gaps in the canopy.
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So why change anything?
Sitting around watching MTV while eating Totino’s Party Pizzas together with my friends on a rainy afternoon was my idea of “making it,” so why change anything?” In his book, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, Dave Grohl describes how, after he supposedly “made it” with Nirvana and had some extra money, he didn’t…
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Making new friends as an adult is hard, or is it?
Maybe I’ve been overthinking it, or maybe it’s been our recent move, but lately, I’ve really been feeling like I need to spend more time trying to make friends.
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A Walk in the Park
I read some great adventure books last year: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, about one of the deadliest climbing years ever on Mt Everest, and Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, about one of the longest races in the world. Another one I just finished and that is just as deserving of a read…
Writing and drawings by Nick.
