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New Review: The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green (a precursor to the Golden Age of Crime)
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Another new review: from Bojan the Librarian, The Art of Free Travel: A Frugal Family Adventure by Patrick Jones and Meg Ulman
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New Review: Crime in Kensington by Christopher St Sprigg - Another Golden Age of Crime novel
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"Read dem dope ass books because one day u won't be able to." - Socrates
Just read your latest blog post. I think articles like the one you mentioned can definitely be reactionary and alarmist. Was there really a golden age of reading? Or did most people just read pulp lit when they couldn't access a TV? Idk, maybe we are doomed...
I need to make a survivalist fort to protect all my books for when the apocalypse arrives. And guns! I need guns to protect them!
MORE GUNS
As a kid, the only books I would read were non-fiction, until I got to around 10, or 11, and then I started reading actual novels. Now, I read more novels than non-fiction, but a lot of it is down to what's available - as a kid, there was a lot more natural history books and stuff on animals around that were written for general readers that weren't nature diaries or textbooks - I don't mind text books but it's heavy
reading and I don't like nature diaries because most of the time, they are more about the author than they are about nature. As a result, I end up reading more fiction... As I read a lot of genre fiction, I tend not to judge it - reading is reading and some books are better written than others, but it shouldn't matter as long as people read and they enjoy it.