Today’s prompt from Long & Short Reviews is: what do I do when I’m bored? Ehm…. I read, if I can, and if not I think about things or tell stories in my head — sometimes thinking about fiction I’m trying to write, sometimes playing with storylines for The Sims games, sometimes with characters I made up in my head when I was a kid and have continued to mentally ‘play’ with. Sometimes all of these combine: a prominent character in a series of short stories was one who came to life in The Sims 2, but was translated into the real world a few years back when I wrote a story about church drama to amuse some of my friends, and my brain still likes mulling over fictional scenarios and how he might act in them.

WHAT are you reading? I’m most of the way through The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis, I’m a third of the way through Living in Wonder, and I just started the Audible version of What If? 2, read by Wil Wheaton.

WHAT have you finished reading recently? The Old Lion, Jeff Shaara. A novel about Teddy Roosevelt. Enjoyable well enough, but not memorable.

WHAT are you reading next? Once I finish the aforementioned titles, I’m going to try a Kingsnorth title, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist — which, based on what I’ve heard from him, will be about his realizing that we’re on the Titanic after it hit the iceberg. He still has environmentalist values but has lost all faith that the global elite and the machine they control genuinely care about the Earth.