Category: review
An interesting short story. I haven’t read much of Murakami but what I have read has been okay. This was a short and fun read, a bit odd too. I did squirm at the end reading about the bugs especially being tucked up in bed myself.
The illustrations and design of the book are excellent though makes a little tricky reading on the Colorsoft Kindle. It does showcase the abilities of coloured e-ink though. See Kindle screenshot below.
What a beautiful and rich book and reading experience. This is a readers book.
Essentially this is a book that covers Penguin Classics books. From the figures behind the books inceptions and the editors and translators. The book is split into sections like Ancient Greece, Rome, Republic Rome, Middle Ages, Renaissance etc up to World War 1. It features fiction, poetry, non-fiction, sagas. Each author featured has a short biography where one exists along with books they have printed as part of Penguin Classics. Each book shows covers of the editions of the books along with a paragraph long commentary/synopsis.
It really is an interesting and insightful read, I have bookmarked many books through my reading of this one, lots of new to me books and authors.
Another interesting tidbit is the breakdown and meaning behind the ISBN of books, something that is overlooked can be so fascination such as the 978 or 979 portion is a country code for books or Bookland as its known in the industry.
I enjoyed this book, I did hope it would be more Soccer Saturday focused snd more storeis from the show and a peek behind the curtain.
Enjoyable read though and an honest one too with Jeff’s opening up on family matters like his daughters battle with eating disorders.
A man who is very much part of my adolescence and Saturdays are not the same without Soccer Saturday in it’s heyday with Paul Merson, Phil Thompson, Charlie Nicholas and Matt le Tissier. The spark is missing. Give me the legends anyday over the likes of Clinton Morrison and Tim Sherwood.
A good read but could have been great.
First book of the year and an enjoyable and quick read, it took me a week because I have been dipping in and out of several others.
This book is interesting to see the authors relationship with books and reading and how it is a part of their life. Each chapter focuses on another aspect of the authors relationship with books, discussing the impact of title chapters title e.g. Reading Aloud vs Silent, Reading Several Books At Once or Reading Widely vs Depth. What I like is the author discusses the matter and provides quotes from other authors or books that made them ponder the question, as such there are lots of references and books. Being Korean it is a shame that not a lot of the Korean references are translated to English yet.
A nice little read and one that can make you think about your own relationship with books and reading.
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