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When you're angry that your children aren't more in touch with nature, but also can't see why your own generation has anything to do with that, and also want to shoehorn into your book that you're angry that your children aren't more in touch with hand-fixing their cars' fuel pumps...

In the very first chapter, parents blame their third-graders for not having played more in nature thus far in their lives. We're off to a terrific start.

There is something unique about translators of French in that, when they're finished and the translated book is published, half of it is still in French.

This is going to end with a call for mandatory military service, isn't it?

Junger does begin the book by saying that this is not intended to be a rigorous study, so I guess I can't fault it for not being a rigorous study, but I do wish there was a wider variety of perspectives.

Between this and the Ever Given I've never been so interested in shipping.

NTS:20

NTS: 18

nts: 16

NTS: 11

Note to self: Up to Surah 9

Accidentally touched this with unsanitised hands after going out to a high-traffic area. Since I live with someone immunocompromised it is now sitting in the garage for four days. Sigh.

I'll have to put this on hold for a while once I finish the Knight's Tale. It's a tumultuous time for me, and I can manage a regular novel but can't read consistently enough, or for long enough periods of time, for an undertaking like this (especially considering I'm reading untranslated).

I already know I'm going to love this.

I've only ever heard that people prefer Corwin as a narrator, but so far I'm liking Merlin. It's refreshing that he's already making a concerted effort to control himself if not be a good person, while (small mercies aside) it took Corwin several years and three and a half books to get to that point.

aaaand Lesson 11 probably could have been conveyed in a way other than telling us that reading news on the internet is inferior, because aside from the inherent untrustworthiness of all screen media, it causes us, all, universally, to treat bad things as spectacle instead of doing something about it. In the few cases where screen media are truthier than, IDK, The Sun and The Daily Mail? [CITATION NEEDED]

Mostly informative and well-written, but Lesson 9 is poor. The core message, that we must enliven our thinking with a "mental armory" of concepts and language drawn from outside our bubbles, is excellent. But the delivery? "Read more". I get where Snyder is coming from, but for many people. re-reading HP or the Bible won't challenge them or expose them to new thinking - watching some Third Cinema might, though.

This is going to be Pet Semetary meets a modern-day "Frankenstein, a Modern-Day Prometheus", isn't it?

Looks like I misjudged the book earlier - the formula is still there, but it'd definitely be less noticeable reading the stories as they were published rather than all at once, in one volume. Mezzotint was more (i.e. was actually) chilling, and is definitely my favourite so far.

This has potential to be a chilling enough ghost story, but I'm not entirely this was edited. Nothing major - only easily-overlookable errors (that are nonetheless more major than a typo or comma splice) of the kind I've been guilty of leaving in essays - but nothing you want in the final print edition of a book.

Enjoyable so far, but a little disappointing - the climaxes are "there was a spirit!" and then the story ends. I hope it doesn't continue this way - or at least, doesn't seem as formulaic as the first two did - because I've been dying to read "Oh, Whistle..." for a while now, given how much a retelling terrified me when I was a kid.

From sci-fi, to horror, and now it's a romance. What a wild ride.

Oh man. Nothing shows your age like talking about the popularity of Yahoo!.

I'm reading this for my postgrad degree, and thus far have not enjoyed being told that all my other achievements for the past 5 years including the resulting degrees were worthless crap.

So far, it's definitely better than I expected, given the series's entry on Loveless.

I was expecting this to be much drier than it actually is. It's very interesting. Some parts (mostly the ones decrying what happened with "the inertia created by the arrogance of our predecessors, their pride in their perfect, pure discipline and their corresponding ignorance of silicone") even remind me of the manifestos (both political and artistic) that I came across in film studies (as well as the Dune universe).

So far, I've read chapters 1, 16, and 22 (the required readings for class). It's a lot easier and less dry than I expected. I find myself nodding in agreement with a lot of the things that the authors mention about information literacy and the roles of service librarians.

Well. Dogs don't see in black-and-white, they're dichromatics. I have my doubts about the validity of energy healing, and light therapy for SAD sufferers seems like it would assist monochromatics as much as it would those with regular colour vision - and either way, I doubt that this is evidence for said colour energy healing. The overview of different colour theories was interesting though, if reductive.

Things have only just started to get decently interesting - I've only kept on this far because I want to know what's happening with the building site.