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I read an average of 22 books per year, about 2/3 non-fiction and 1/3 fiction. I'm a collector with over 2200 books for adults in our home library. Favourite writers include W.B. Yeats, Simon Schama, George Orwell, Paul Kingsnorth, Thomas Hardy, Robert Macfarlane, William Shakespeare, Peter Ackroyd, the Venerable Bede, Colm TΓ³ibΓn, Bertrand Russell, and Ray Bradbury. You can also find me on Litsy, LibraryThing, and Goodreads.
I rate books I read with the following system: β β β β β It was great β β β β β It was good β β β ββ It was middling β β βββ It was bad β ββββ It was awful
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Greenblatt knows Shakespeare and Shakespeare knew the human condition; both are amply demonstrated here. But somehow, I was still left wanting. Perhaps it was the lack of clear connections between textual observations or between what the author had read in Shakespeare and witnessed in the real world, especially during the first Trump administration. It's not weak, but it could have been stronger.
Nice review of Francis's first couple years of public events.
"A gift from God and the common home of humanity, the earth is threatened by man's abuse of his freedom. β¦
I have a problem with the fact that the Irish were barely mentioned before page 70, that the author's main point didn't emerge until page 183 (this in a book of only 250 pages), and that the final 50 pages of core subject matter felt rushed. Also, the Irish didn't save civilisation in general as the title seems to say - they played a critical role in preserving Greek and Roman writings.
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media is a nonfiction graphic novel by journalist β¦
Raised lots of interesting questions. Neufeld's art was good and sometimes unexpectedly clever and funny.
This translation was, at times, both easier and more difficult than others I have read.
Special collectorβs edition of David Lowery's The Green Knight. Featuring original artwork by Sophy Hollington and a 62-page interior booklet, β¦
