Americans Reading Fewer Books Than in Past
U.S. adults on average read 12.6 books in 2021, three fewer books than in the prior measurement from 2016.news.gallup.com
Amazing, my wife and I averaged 12.5 in 2021, although the combo was 25/0.
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Americans Reading Fewer Books Than in Past
U.S. adults on average read 12.6 books in 2021, three fewer books than in the prior measurement from 2016.news.gallup.com
I'm moving at the same pace I think. All politics along with climate change, paleontology, geology, cosmology and such. I need to work a little more fiction into the mix.Smittycl, here is it January and I've already bought half my 12.6. Most are about politics. I was thinking I need to get back to fiction. But politics today can read stranger than.
I'm moving at the same pace I think. All politics along with climate change, paleontology, geology, cosmology and such. I need to work a little more fiction into the mix.
I have David Mitchell's Utopia Avenue mocking me from the bedside table but haven't found myself in a Mitchell-mood yet. His books take some focus.
This is now the usual mode for -cores: not movements, not even necessarily emergent trends, though that is somewhere closer to the truth. At its purest, it’s a descriptor of interlinked phenomena. Words evade it but long descriptions and analyses will do, and these descriptions become bundled up in a particular -core.
Thousand Autumns was outstanding and I really enjoyed Cloud Atlas. I've read all his stuff except Black Swan Green and the latest. I read Bone Clocks while on a dive trip and all I could think of when looking at coral and wildlife was getting back that night to knock out another chapter!I just bought that! It's next-ish on my to-read list. I'm still chasing the high of Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, which I liked as much if not more than Cloud Atlas.
Thousand Autumns was outstanding and I really enjoyed Cloud Atlas. I've read all his stuff except Black Swan Green and the latest. I read Bone Clocks while on a dive trip and all I could think of when looking at coral and wildlife was getting back that night to knock out another chapter!
His Number 9 Dream was a bit hard for me to get into. I also liked the two you just mentioned.Bone Clocks is so good! I blew through that one as well. I picked up Ghostwritten and Slade House on my last trip to the bookstore so those are in the to-read pile as well.
Well, The Smiths' aesthetic was very similar, so you might call them precursors. Certainly my friends at university who were into The Smiths, and the Pastels and other C86 bands (as they were known back then), all used to dress in this way, with big overcoats, and most of it thrifted.
Morissey himself was deliberately going for a 'James Dean as a queer book-lover' look.
I mean, I think Lyngstad's is the only decent translation available, right? I've never heard anyone rhapsodize about it, which doesn't necessarily mean that it's not worth rhapsodizing about. But I do know that it's supposed to be much better than the one it replaced, and this isn't a novel where there's a wealth of choice (as far as I know, which isn't terribly far). I've read it and liked it quite a bit, although haven't read the others so can't personally compare.Any recommendations for a good French or English translation of Hamsun's Sult? Something like Nabokov's Russian translations, which attempt to translate the artistic feel into the new language and culture as well as the words.
Thousand Autumns was outstanding and I really enjoyed Cloud Atlas. I've read all his stuff except Black Swan Green and the latest. I read Bone Clocks while on a dive trip and all I could think of when looking at coral and wildlife was getting back that night to knock out another chapter!
Reminds me also of Phil Daniels in Quadrophenia.Living in the grey damp North of England, I got into The Smiths fairly early and they were a refreshing change from the corporate electro pop of the time, some of the songs still make me laugh today.
A lot of Northern British kids adopted the look with the NHS specs/big Quiffs and charity shop clothes he was definately a different kind of style icon to anything that went before him, Manchester really became the style capital of the UK from this point onwards and produced some great bands.
It's nice to see this style come around again, let's hope the music is as good
I think Rick Deckard's retro/future outfit was also probably quite influential at the time and still looks cool nowadays
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I think that book connects directly to Utopia Avenue from what I’ve heard. I mean, all his books intersect at some level of course.Thousand Autumns was probably my least favourite of his books. The switch from the brilliant and atmospheric section in the Dutch trading post to the orientalist B-Movie with evil baby-killing villains was inexplicably bad.
But I seem to be the only person in the world who thinks this.
Another very influential movie/album, we all dressed exactly like this before Morrisey came along ?