Had a book on my desk, got asked, nothing significant
Today I got asked about a book on my desk. It's been there for a month, and I haven't progressed further than 10 pages or so. The book is there to remind me that I love reading and that the habit of learning things from a book, at one's own pace, on the topic they're interested on is actually a good one and needs to be maintained.
I did not put the book on my desk as some form of flex. I don't virtue-signal using physical things. And honestly, I don't look forward to people talking to me, so having a book on my desk is not any kind of a conversation starter or anything. But I have to admit, it was very nice to be talked to and to ask things and to hear things from someone who took this stupid book as a thread to pull on and thought it would be a good idea to talk to me about it.
I guess the book will remain where it is. I just checked whether there's an audio narration, and nope, there is not. It doesn't seem too niche, — I remember several people recommending it, one not knowing about the other, or some knowing each other, but as a small island of the overall group. It fizzled out quickly, I guess, — so quickly, so that the author decided to not produce an audio version out of it. Kinda funny actually that it was not a baseline expectation that a philosophy book won't eventually (and usually rather quickly) receive an audio version. Good times.
Anyway, the book is "Utopia for Realists", it has bright orange cover (at least my edition), it pops, feel free to follow my experience, put it at your desk, see who starts talking to you about it, if they've read it, and such.
Jan 27 · 3 months ago