Personal
This is a place for my meandering bookish thoughts that may or may not have a place anywhere else. Mental slush that for some reason I feel like other people might appreciate.
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On Anti-Intellectualism, Booktok and the Modern Cult of Reading
A bit of background on myself, for those who might question my chops: I studied Latin for six years (finishing with translating the Aeneid and Catullus), have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which included reading Chaucer in the original middle English, and essentially had to read and critique a 600-plus-page classic novel a week…
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On Biases in Books
As an FYI, this article is going to cover some later storyline points in Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson, so if you’ve not read that book, plan on reading it, and don’t want it to be spoiled, please come back. I’m not sure why this hit me so hard in this book, because…
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On Reading
I am the kind of reader where unless the book I’m reading is one I’m studying, my brain is like a sieve. I may not be a mood reader in practice, but in my memory I am, because all I remember are vibes. Did I like that love interest with the hair? Did that one…