Write Every Day: Day 17

More progress on the Yuletide treat, but I've reached a difficult scene, which slowed down the writing. How about you?

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Day 16: silveradept, garonne, badly_knitted, regshoe, alexseanchai, yhlee, sylvanwitch, shadaras, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, chanter1944, silveradept, china_shop, yasaman,

Day 17: china_shop,

Recent reading

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older (2023)
For book club; I listened to the audiobook. This was...perfectly okay? But did not really wow me. I think part of that was the setting: I could not really suspend my disbelief that humans could fuck up Earth to such an extent that it would be a better alternative to move to Jupiter. And the plot kept bringing up issues of ecology, so it was difficult to ignore.

Saying No to a Farm-Free Future by Chris Smaje (2023)
Now that I think of it, this book and the one above are kind of in conversation with each other, about how possible it is for humans to survive without Earth's ecosystems? I don't know that it was worth reading for me, since I already follow the author's blog, and had already got the gist of it. But anyway, it's arguing against ecomodernist claims that it would be possible (or desirable) to feed humanity on manufactured food from factories. Mainly on the basis that it would cost far too much energy in a future which is already likely to be less energy-rich than today, but it also brings up various social aspects.

I also read a Swedish book about the ground-living fungi of sandy pine forests, but probably no one in my DW circle is interested in that one.