Doing nothing: a reading list

For 3 years during Covid, I lived in crumbling houses in depopulated hamlets on two different mountains in the Haute-Loire, one of the departements of France located on the volcanic plateau of the Auvergne. At dinner last week, someone asked me what one actually does when living alone in an otherwise uninhabited, rural, remote hamlet for an extended period. Boredom and distress seem to loom large…