one of the booktubers I watch Elliot Brooks dropped a video today with witchy book recommendations for fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3e2YUtIvUo
I added a couple books from their recommendations to my TBR - The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams and Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova
two other books she mentioned were by Sangu Mandanna - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches [0] which I read last year and A Witch's GUide to Magical Innkeeping which I preordered and is currently sitting on my ebook reader.
saving that second one my vacation time later this month.
[0] - my review of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches is here: https://nullrouted.space/2024/04/19/review-irregular-witches/
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
@packetcat honestly after watching my younger brother go through high school during covid and then get a Data Science degree during the AI Is Demolishing Education times I've become increasingly grateful for my own education
@packetcat I don't regret doing physics--I genuinely loved it and was passionate about it and the math I learned helped me learn other mathematically dense things afterwards--but I still wish I could have taken more humanities stuff. I would love to retire and go to college and just take humanities courses for No Reason
@wallhackio I went to university for a IT degree and ended up dropping out for Various Reasons
my biggest regret from that is that I wish I had gone into a humanities program instead, so even if I dropped out I would have found more personal value from what I learned
if I ever I have the money and time I do wanna go back to uni/college to learn humanities stuff