books read: 2022 january

Somehow, it's February, and we survived this year's freeze in Texas -- though everyone clearly held on to anger, stress, and anxiety leftover from last year's power grid failures. (Well, deliberate rolling blackouts, but failure of bureaucratic preparedness.) Good thing they did nothing in the past year to fix anything! We just lucked out in the freeze not being as bad.

Celebrated Lunar New Year personally and at work, with our big festival. It was an exhausting but fun day to work, and now a quieter period as I try to focus on the things I find meaningful, worthwhile, when the world around me feels like it's on fire. I'm reading a lot for escapism. Hockey is also escapism in some ways, but hockey also makes me depressed and angry a lot given the people/league/fans that make up the sport, so really, again, reading for escapism.

( Books, January 2022 )