New Horizons

Blogger's support isn't great.  It took me a while to figure out how to create pages (and have them show up). It turns out that 'Pages' isn't the right place to go (☺☺☺).  How to make pages on Blogger and have them show up Don't go to 'Pages' Make a label you'll use to link the posts to the page Copy the link Go to 'Layout' Click on 'Add Gadget' Decide where you want your pages/subsections of the blog to show up Edit the gadget Click on 'Add External Link' Name the page and add the label's link (that you should've copied) Move pages around according to order preference Click on 'Show Pages' -> Save Et voila! You have pages now. 

Blarb (blurb + blab) There comes a time (usually the middle of the year) when a TBR (to-be-read) starts looking dull and uninteresting. To-be-reads or yearly reading lists tend to suffer from the current bias of being chosen for having great publicity, for being trendy due to societal disruptions, or for being a much-awaited addition to a series. Something of the sort happened to me mid-July [yeah, so not exactly the middle of the year, get over it]. Back in March, when I decided to add books to my 2020 reading list concretely , I thought I'd picked a fair assortment of non-fiction and fiction, of politics and climate change, of politics of climate change, of some core science books related to my domain of interest, and what would hopefully make for interesting reads by writers having a very different perspective than I. However, I soon got disenchanted with the fictional tales I'd chosen to read. I got annoyed at non-fiction authors for not coming to the point. I got deep int...