The Reading Corner.

[Buster's Uncle]

Rereading Commodore Hornblower by E.S. Forester starting a few nights back.

My eyesight has gone downhill tangibly since the last read not that many years ago - I could use a pt. or two bigger type to really enjoy this.

[Geo]

Rereading Commodore Hornblower by E.S. Forester starting a few nights back.

My eyesight has gone downhill tangibly since the last read not that many years ago - I could use a pt. or two bigger type to really enjoy this.

If anything, that's a benefit if one uses ebooks. Most ereader devices (or apps) can enlarge the text.

[Buster's Uncle]

I've never tried that, and I'm a practicing miser.

HowEVER - I've got a sister who likes throwing money at tech toys and finds me hard to get for for gift occasions, so I gotta run upstairs now....

[Metaliturtle]

Buncle, I have the kindle app on my phone, the app is free and there are lots of free classics you can download, I definitely have the text enlarged most of the time when I'm reading on it.  I've got Kindle on my computer too though, which is awesome to have a full page and be able to type notes right next to what you're reading.

[Buster's Uncle]

I don't cell phone, and that isn't changing.  Good to know, though.

[Metaliturtle]

I don't cell phone, and that isn't changing.  Good to know, though.

I'm jealous, I've got personal, work, and rental phones that I get to juggle, in 10 years my hands will have turned into claws for how much I have to hold those idiot bricks.

[Buster's Uncle]

And this is why I don't and won't cell phone.

Real phones are a pain and a disruption made of some breathtakingly bad manners all too often, and even if I ever went anywhere, I'd hardly feel motivated to make it easier to bother me...

[Metaliturtle]

Necessary evil for me it seems, but I'm happy for you.

[Buster's Uncle]

Mind, I've centered my life around a job where I get a lot of PMs, and you know how I feel about those and ought to recall why.

[Metaliturtle]

My wife gets PMS too, do you want some chocolate?

[Buster's Uncle]

Yes.

Yes I do.

[Bertilak]

Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House significantly influences psychological horror and gothic horror in the twentieth century. The Haunting of Hill House primarily explores four main characters' experiences in the Hill House and effects of isolation and terror on human psychology. The Haunting of Hill House influences multiple later horror novels and television series in the twentieth and twenty-first century, inspires a movie adaptation in 1963, and thoroughly explores implications of an unreliable narrator on descriptions of events in a narrative. Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House likely receives inspiration from Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw", Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, and other gothic horror in the mid to late nineteenth century.

Bibliography
Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House. New York: Viking Press, 1959.

[Buster's Uncle]

You write like you're still in college.  You're not, are you?

I'll always think of you as a teenager, mind, that's a once a boy wonder, always a boy wonder thing - just ask Nikolai, who's gotta be bumping 40 by now, and we all still think he's 16...

[Bertilak]

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight appears as an epic chivalric romantic poem in alliterative verse, received publication from an unknown author around 1400, and followed medieval Arthurian mythology. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in modern English translations from Middle English, illustrates Gawain's practice of chivalry, exemplification of martial prowess, resistance against sexual temptation, display of moral righteousness, and navigation of complex social etiquette for participants in royal courts around King Arthur and medieval Europe. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight's narrative expands Morgan Le Fay's subversive attacks on King Arthur and depicts aspects of hegemonic expectations on courtly northern British medieval women. Later poems and a contemporary movie adapt components from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The Song of Roland, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and other similar medieval literature glorifies legendary martial figures and martial deeds in the British Isles and modern France from around 950 through approximately 1500.

Bibliography
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Authoritative Translation, Contexts, Criticism. Second edition. New York, N.Y: W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.

[Bertilak]

You write like you're still in college.  You're not, are you?

I'll always think of you as a teenager, mind, that's a once a boy wonder, always a boy wonder thing - just ask Nikolai, who's gotta be bumping 40 by now, and we all still think he's 16...

Correct. My graduation from college occurred recently. My interest in reading and maintenance of my writing skills from tertiary education, however, continue into the present day, and my interest in life-long learning have influenced my decisions and selection of degrees. Motivated people can continue learning about different areas of history and related fields outside of classrooms and formal institutions. Many other pathways require specialized equipment and tools for continued practice in a field.