In which I make time to read for pleasure but not about pleasure

The very best way to get me to read a UO library book I've checked out -- aside from writing it in a style that makes it impossible for me to set down -- is for someone else to recall it and limit my time with it. Otherwise I keep renewing every month. I've had some of their books for years and years. Unfortunately, I just plain do not have time for Aesthetics of the Natural Environment by Emily Brady, a philosophy book, and now it's going into someone else's hands no later than Monday. It looks really interesting, but the best I can do is skim it. Conventionally, philosophers have studied aesthetics only as they apply to created art, but obviously in our modern culture -- and in China and Japan for centuries -- we think nature is beautiful too. Her personal theory is something called "the integrated aesthetic," but I doubt I'll get far enough to find out what that is. Mentioning it here, though, is a good first step towards remembering to get the book back someday.

I did finish rereading The Magic of Recluce this evening, while D. watched Land Before Time 2 for the gazillionth time. Too bad I don't have the next book in the series...

Congratulations, by the way, to coleoptera for her admission into grad school at Georgia Tech! Yay!