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. Some know, many don't, but I'm on a sabbatical as of January 1 until August! I've for the most part kept a low profile and have only explicitly written about it twice on the blog in the previous year, first in November last year when I visited Barcelona and my soon-to-be hosts there and then in February when I handed in an application for the very generous funds for going on sabbaticals that KTH offers to (only) a handful of its faculty members. I didn't get that money but have over last five (or so) years accumulated overtime that allows me to take half a year off with salary. It might be that I will work harder than ever during the coming six months (see my next blog post), but it will still feel like a breeze since I have the power to manage my time as I see fit every single day. I don't have to teach, I don't have to attend meetings, I don't have to show up at KTH for any reason whatsoever and I can be a bit more relaxed about answering my mail (work...

. I read the four books below 18 months ago, in June and July. This will not do, and, I have a plan. I will be revealed together with some other professional/work-related new year's promises I will write about soon. All four books below concern sustainability. Each book "review" starts with a number of asterisks which represents the number of quotes from that book further down in this blog post.  Here's the previous blog post  about books I have read. **********************  George Monbiot  ( homepage ,  Wikipedia ) is a well-known UK journalist and activist who writes for  the Guardian . I have read many of his journalistic pieces and thought it would be nice to read a book of his. Only I bought this book five or more years ago and it was already five years old when I bought it, so parts of the book felt a little dated. But Monbiot's book  Heat: How we can stop the planet burning  (2006) was still an ok read. The most memorable part (see the quot...