Fooled around with my potential new template again tonight. We'll see how it goes.
I admitted defeat and returned a book I was reading to the library, which I hate doing. I tend to want to keep renewing it until I'm done, but I just don't have the time or brainpower to devote to it right now. I was reading From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, by Jacques Barzun, and I was enjoying it, but it's 800-plus pages, and it takes energy and thought to digest it. I just don't have that now. Things are starting to heat up at work as we prepare to launch a new product, and I only have energy for brain candy as recreational reading. I will pick up Dawn to Decadence again, I think, I just need more time and more sleep before I can tackle it.
One thing I did notice in the 100 pages I did get through -- this book is a prime candidate for e-book or some other electronic format. He tried to do it in print, identifying themes in all caps and putting references to pages where these themes are visited again, or from a different perspective. It would have been a fascinating book to meander through. As the book is basically about Western cultural life and development, the whole linear format did not serve it well. I would love to see what a good information architect couold do to a work of such scope.
I tired to sneak out of the library without checking anything else out -- I got books for my birthday that I really want to read -- but failed. Picked up a couple of mysteries -- Slayer of Gods and The PMS Outlaws. Slayer of Gods is the latest in the Lord Meren series, a group of mysteries set in ancient Egypt in the reign of Tutankhamun. I've been waiting for this one to come out for a while, because the last one, Drinker of Blood, ended with a cliffhanger -- three years ago. Argh. As for the second book, I like the author, Sharyn McCrumb, a lot, although I prefer her mysteries set in Appalachia to her Elizabeth McPherson mysteries. It feels like she's trying too hard to be whimsical with these. They tend to be good for a diversion, but they're not something I'd want to keep.
I admitted defeat and returned a book I was reading to the library, which I hate doing. I tend to want to keep renewing it until I'm done, but I just don't have the time or brainpower to devote to it right now. I was reading From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, by Jacques Barzun, and I was enjoying it, but it's 800-plus pages, and it takes energy and thought to digest it. I just don't have that now. Things are starting to heat up at work as we prepare to launch a new product, and I only have energy for brain candy as recreational reading. I will pick up Dawn to Decadence again, I think, I just need more time and more sleep before I can tackle it.
One thing I did notice in the 100 pages I did get through -- this book is a prime candidate for e-book or some other electronic format. He tried to do it in print, identifying themes in all caps and putting references to pages where these themes are visited again, or from a different perspective. It would have been a fascinating book to meander through. As the book is basically about Western cultural life and development, the whole linear format did not serve it well. I would love to see what a good information architect couold do to a work of such scope.
I tired to sneak out of the library without checking anything else out -- I got books for my birthday that I really want to read -- but failed. Picked up a couple of mysteries -- Slayer of Gods and The PMS Outlaws. Slayer of Gods is the latest in the Lord Meren series, a group of mysteries set in ancient Egypt in the reign of Tutankhamun. I've been waiting for this one to come out for a while, because the last one, Drinker of Blood, ended with a cliffhanger -- three years ago. Argh. As for the second book, I like the author, Sharyn McCrumb, a lot, although I prefer her mysteries set in Appalachia to her Elizabeth McPherson mysteries. It feels like she's trying too hard to be whimsical with these. They tend to be good for a diversion, but they're not something I'd want to keep.
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