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Review of 'The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life' on 'GoodReads'

2 stars

Shallow, incurious applications of 'wisdom' from the shire. The wisdom consists of trite observations that ignore class, culture, and the fact that hobbits are fictional characters made up by one person. I love tolkien and nostalgia as much as the next white nerd, but this book doesn't present anything like why we could or should care about tolkien and his works of fiction beyond that presumed personal love of it.

If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for …

Review of 'Into the Silence' on 'GoodReads'

3 stars

This book is not for the faint of detail-- I've a great interest in various hubristic mountaineering exploits, and this book has still taken me several attempts to get through (much like a summit push muahahaha). How I ended up reading and perceiving this book is by imagining that the most enthusiastic, well-researched person with adhd/autism was telling me everything about the first English attempts on Everest. The pros of this approach are that you learn things you didn't know you were going to learn-- what daily life was like in a Tibetan monastery in the shadows of Everest, or how the English first made contact with the Tibetans (spoilers, it went so badly), and EVERY DETAIL about the fighting during wwI at Ypres. The con of this approach is just that-- you hear about Ypres and the Somme several times in this book, and in excruciating, visceral detail. As …