Textbooks are my favorites. I like to track the changes in curriculum.
I’m like you, this thread has really cut my physical book reading down (but I count some of the stuff I read here as “novels’). However, I do subscribe to Epoch’s actual newspaper, it’s a weekly an I try to make myself read at least 2 physical sections each week.
I bought 2 hardcovers this past summer, one of them, “What Happened to the Benetts?” was really good! The other on is kinda a slow start.
My kindle is barely touched. I find the story has to be top notch in order to interest me.
Non-fiction is my favorite..of anything! I have Pluto TV, they have a History Channel that shows documentaries, and a couple of other channels that do documentaries. Yesterday I watched a 6 hour story about Roger Ailes, of Fox news fame. That guy was twisted! After awhile, I discovered that I was really invested in the Gretchen Carlson story. Did she win her lawsuit? Did she get her apology? No spoilers here!
And now the low 30s have appeared on my outside thermometer, and the high 60s on the inside one, so it’s time to start tending the woodstove. Drat! Another claim on my time!
I’m glad to hear that you’ve read so many of your books! I have a lot of books, and I’ve read 99% of them. Back in Ought 15, there was The Great Purge. It was so painful! Hundreds of books made it to our local abused women’s shelter. Whole curriculums were tied together with twine, so the new users would have everything they needed to teach their kids at homeschool. Mostly reference books were kept...old dictionaries so I can back up my use of the worlds “queer”, “rainbow” and any other words the Potato in Chief has re-defined.
Mostly reference books were kept...old dictionaries so I can back up my use of the worlds “queer”, “rainbow” and any other words the Potato in Chief has re-defined.
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I have a dictionary that is over 30 yrs old. It’s falling apart. We inherited a bunch of my fil’s old books. The complete Harvard Classics from 1910 and The World’s Famous Orations from 1906. I don’t think I’ll read them, they seem fragile. I also have The Complete Works of Shakespeare given to someone in the family in 1889. Can’t read the giftee’s writing very well, it’s our last name, but the first name looks French, or I can’t read the writing lol. The printing in the book itself is very, very tiny.. need way stronger readers.