52 days ago · Writing · hide · Fediverse post

What have you recently finished reading? I finished two books last night, which I was very pleased with — two very different books, as is my wont, ahaha. One was Brandt & Stein’s Worst Man, which is a fun and ridiculous graphic novel in which one character is trying to make his best friend’s wedding amazing, and the other one is trying to ruin it (only, of course, he changes his mind). I love the art, the faces are so expressive and there’s a lot of comedy that arises from expression and posture. The other was The Welsh Language: A History, by Janet Davies, which was a fairly quick read with some technical stuff about how the Welsh language works and has developed, and quite a lot about the modern history of the language. What are you currently reading? I have two books actively on the go: one is The Castle: A History, by John Goodall: the chapters are quite short, but each illustrates a bit of the history of the castle as a concept through a specific example and a snippet of textual…

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