Hi friends!

You may have noticed that today’s book review appeared a few hours earlier than normal. That’s because I’ve decided to make March a month for rereading! And as with the previous month of rereading last May, I’m aiming to focus on rereading books that I already own and updating everyone about it. Some changes you can expect on the blog are:

1. Slightly more frequent updates – I can’t say that I will post about this every day, because March is going to be a pretty busy month, but between the book reviews that I’ve already written and the reading updates, you can expect up to two posts a day.
2. More book rambles – They probably won’t reach the level of discussion posts, but in my mind, a reading update involves lots of digressions and book-related thoughts, while a review involves me evaluating the book and why I did/did not like it.

And that’s about it! I’m not planning anything big. I’m actually still going to continue reading some new-to-me ebooks, because I’ve got a book club meeting in a few weeks and I’ve not started on Annabel Thong.

Day 1 Reading Update

The Myth of Growth by Tim Jackson – This is an ARC that I started last month and finally finished today. I received a PDF, so I was reading on my computer (making things a lot slower) but it provided a lot of food for thought. Given that economies basically went into hibernation due to COVID-19 last year, now is the time for us to re-think how we want the economy to be.

The Princess Bride by William Goldman – The first book that I’m rereading! I really admire how Goldman managed to position the story as a book within a book and (not for the first time) I wish that he also wrote an unabridged version just to make the story “complete”. Although I’m still enjoying this very much, I kind of realised that it’s the idea of an abridged story that helped me to overlook some flaws this time – Goldman seems to be aware of the weaknesses in the novel (like how do you transition three years into the past?) and so he uses this ‘abridgement’ as a convenient way to literally info-dump without the reader minding. I will say, however, that while I love parenthesis (as you all probably have noticed), I don’t really find them that funny.

I’m slightly more than halfway through The Princess Bride right now and I have high hopes of finishing it tonight, if I do not get distracted by Disney Plus. If I have time, I would like to read the start of The Tale of Genji but that book is a door stopper and frankly, intimidates me. I don’t know how I finished the unabridged version the first time.