I'm sure I've probably said it before, but Discworld operates in the same realm as pizza... Even poor Discworld is still worthwhile because its Discworld 😄 I'm working on a cows theme, Roswell was a potential (US cover has a cow abduction) so I'd thought of including it, but decided not to. So perfect timing for you to be the guinea pig and feedback in the negative. I've yet got plenty of her greatest hits to get to before diving into weaker stuff. Glad you included other media, I definitely love hearing about stuff outside books from the folks who I consider trusted reviewers on taste. I think that is most of how I hear about media anymore.
@@ReadBecca Ahh that’s so true! I do love Discworld… and pizza! 😄 Connie Willis’s greatest hits are definitely still worth reading, especially the time travel ones. This is the first one of hers that I’ve ever DNFed! Thanks again for inspiring me to include other media in my wrap-up. I hope you’ll find some fun stuff to try out! 😊
Complete clown shoes would be a great pair to own! And three books completed in one month is very good by my own reckoning - and great titles too. Thanks!
Ya know what they say about a man with big shoes! This is true, three books is nothing to be sneezed at. I do feel like such good books (especially Howards End) deserved a more receptive brain, but I'll definitely revisit that in the future.
@@TheBookThing Sorry to hear your November is like that. (But yay for the Vonnegut reference! The song I used a snippet of for my theme tune is named after a line from Sirens of Titan.)
I haven’t looked at Shakespeare’s _T&C_ in a hundred years, and don’t recall any satisfactory feelings having come of it. Was the introduction or supplemental material in your edition any good? I’m just saying because I wonder what was Shakespeare’s source material, so far as anyone can tell? I would have assumed he knew Chaucer’s _T&C…_ did the rest come from Ovid or something? Just curious because I don’t think of Shakespeare as someone who scrambled around trying to get a comprehensive picture from a diversity of sources, but rather fell back on something at hand. I haven’t been reading at all. As you said, there’s a lot of slumping going around. (Slumping I said, not slumming. 😉) 🗳️No, don’t stick to your lane. Make the video.
The supplements were good in my copy of T&C. It was the RSC edition, with essays and notes by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen. There's details on the themes, source material (yep, definitely Chaucer! I can't recall now what other sources were cited), performance history, interviews with some directors. Plenty of good stuff, and useful footnotes. I really rate the RSC editions. Ahh sorry to hear you're slumping too. There's a lot of it going round! Thanks for the vote of confidence, re: lane jumping!
I'm sure I've probably said it before, but Discworld operates in the same realm as pizza... Even poor Discworld is still worthwhile because its Discworld 😄
I'm working on a cows theme, Roswell was a potential (US cover has a cow abduction) so I'd thought of including it, but decided not to. So perfect timing for you to be the guinea pig and feedback in the negative. I've yet got plenty of her greatest hits to get to before diving into weaker stuff.
Glad you included other media, I definitely love hearing about stuff outside books from the folks who I consider trusted reviewers on taste. I think that is most of how I hear about media anymore.
@@ReadBecca Ahh that’s so true! I do love Discworld… and pizza! 😄
Connie Willis’s greatest hits are definitely still worth reading, especially the time travel ones. This is the first one of hers that I’ve ever DNFed!
Thanks again for inspiring me to include other media in my wrap-up. I hope you’ll find some fun stuff to try out! 😊
Complete clown shoes would be a great pair to own! And three books completed in one month is very good by my own reckoning - and great titles too. Thanks!
Ya know what they say about a man with big shoes!
This is true, three books is nothing to be sneezed at. I do feel like such good books (especially Howards End) deserved a more receptive brain, but I'll definitely revisit that in the future.
i'm here for any music-related vids, obviously!
That's good to know, thanks!
Some months just don’t get off the ground. I think November might be a bit like that for me. In the words of Kurt Vonnegut ‘so it goes’
@@TheBookThing Sorry to hear your November is like that. (But yay for the Vonnegut reference! The song I used a snippet of for my theme tune is named after a line from Sirens of Titan.)
I just sent an email with the title Struggle Bus yesterday! 😃
@@booksimnotreading Beep beep, all aboard! 😅
we have ajax and mr muscle (formerly Mr Muscolo) in romania too fyi. the joke should be EU-proof
That's a relief!
I haven’t looked at Shakespeare’s _T&C_ in a hundred years, and don’t recall any satisfactory feelings having come of it. Was the introduction or supplemental material in your edition any good? I’m just saying because I wonder what was Shakespeare’s source material, so far as anyone can tell? I would have assumed he knew Chaucer’s _T&C…_ did the rest come from Ovid or something? Just curious because I don’t think of Shakespeare as someone who scrambled around trying to get a comprehensive picture from a diversity of sources, but rather fell back on something at hand.
I haven’t been reading at all. As you said, there’s a lot of slumping going around. (Slumping I said, not slumming. 😉)
🗳️No, don’t stick to your lane. Make the video.
The supplements were good in my copy of T&C. It was the RSC edition, with essays and notes by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen. There's details on the themes, source material (yep, definitely Chaucer! I can't recall now what other sources were cited), performance history, interviews with some directors. Plenty of good stuff, and useful footnotes. I really rate the RSC editions.
Ahh sorry to hear you're slumping too. There's a lot of it going round!
Thanks for the vote of confidence, re: lane jumping!
It's always slight awkward giving a Shakespeare play a relatively low rating. Must do better Mr Shakespeare.
Greatest writer in the English language? Well *I* didn't think much of bleedin' Troilus and blinkin' Cressida! (Hamlet was none too shabby, mind you.)