looking at my book reviews from last year and comparing them to the ones from this year I feel like they have improved in quality since then

I have written one for each book I've finished reading this year so that's 43 books and 43 reviews (the 43rd is scheduled to be published tomorrow)

I think just writing a lot of them has made me more confident in my own ability to write said reviews and that results in the reviews themselves being better

thinking about how the very basic media literacy skills like analyzing themes in a text that are critical for writing my book reviews came from high school English classes where we read and analyzed Shakespeare's plays (Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Othello)

*me in high school analyzing a soliloquy*: ugh this sucks, I'd rather be playing video games

*me now*: ah thank fuck I learned how to do that

in Grade 10, we got to go on a field trip to the University of Toronto's St George campus to watch the theatre class put on a performance of Macbeth

that shit ruled, Macbeth is still my most favourite of the Shakespeare plays I've read for that reason

I find the plot of King Lear intriguing as well but I have never read the Shakespeare original, only seen the Akira Kurosawa movie adaptation (Ran)

https://nullrouted.space/2024/02/26/review-ran-1985/

I should watch more of Kurosawa's movies like I mentioned in that review.