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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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We're back after a break with a brand new reviewer, Skep from Skep's Place here on Neocities. Skep has been summarising the stories from The Canterbury Tales on his own website, and has now also written a review of Chaucer's classic for the Reading Project
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skep
1 year ago
Thank you for sharing space on your site for my ramblings and inflated sense of self-worth 🙂
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readingproject
1 year ago
Space? We've got 50GB worth, baby! You think I'd be so verbose if we didn't? Thanks so much for the review Skep. And to satisfy the No Happy guy, I shall review it and say it was great. Thanks!
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talkiecrank
1 year ago
That is a nice review indeed, Skep! Never heard of The Canterbury Tales before, the review carried the tone across well. Sounds like a read I'd enjoy.
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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.