Being a Brit, my favorite classic authors are British, probably because they're what I grew up with. So Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, P.G. Wodehouse, and Gerald Durrell. Of the Americans, I love Thornton Wilder and Sinclair Lewis more than Fitzgerald or Hemingway. They seem more relatable to me...
I *used* to read (on average, spanning roughly 40 years of adulthood) 30 to 60 books a year easily. More back in high school & college -- one summer reading program I believe I pegged just shy of 120 (mid-May through late August) back in middle school. ... and those figures mostly don't include re-reads. NOW: I'm legally blind, and even with e-books [easier to magnify] and audiobooks, I'm lucky to squeeze in 15 to 20 -- and many of those are really not much more than glorified short stories. [LeSigh] It's allowed me to catch up on bits and pieces available in video format -- movies, TV episodes, direct-to-video, vlogs, blogs, podcasts, and music.
I *will* survive. Thriving is a bit more of a stretch at this point ...
Hi Mike! So lovely of you to read my newsletter and comment as you have. I'm so sorry you're legally blind. There are some great audiobooks out there. The Dutch House narrated by Tom Hanks, and Remarkably Bright Creatures (don't know the narrator, sorry)! The font of my first trilogy that started with What's Not Said was the normal size, but when I self-published A Whale of a Murder and Switched at Death, I had the designer bump up the size of the font. Not quite Large Print, but better for folks like me who need the typeface a bit larger! Be well, my friend!
Being a Brit, my favorite classic authors are British, probably because they're what I grew up with. So Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, P.G. Wodehouse, and Gerald Durrell. Of the Americans, I love Thornton Wilder and Sinclair Lewis more than Fitzgerald or Hemingway. They seem more relatable to me...
Gabi ... hi! I can always count on you to engage with my newsletters! Thank you so much! Love your perspective on this!
I *used* to read (on average, spanning roughly 40 years of adulthood) 30 to 60 books a year easily. More back in high school & college -- one summer reading program I believe I pegged just shy of 120 (mid-May through late August) back in middle school. ... and those figures mostly don't include re-reads. NOW: I'm legally blind, and even with e-books [easier to magnify] and audiobooks, I'm lucky to squeeze in 15 to 20 -- and many of those are really not much more than glorified short stories. [LeSigh] It's allowed me to catch up on bits and pieces available in video format -- movies, TV episodes, direct-to-video, vlogs, blogs, podcasts, and music.
I *will* survive. Thriving is a bit more of a stretch at this point ...
Hi Mike! So lovely of you to read my newsletter and comment as you have. I'm so sorry you're legally blind. There are some great audiobooks out there. The Dutch House narrated by Tom Hanks, and Remarkably Bright Creatures (don't know the narrator, sorry)! The font of my first trilogy that started with What's Not Said was the normal size, but when I self-published A Whale of a Murder and Switched at Death, I had the designer bump up the size of the font. Not quite Large Print, but better for folks like me who need the typeface a bit larger! Be well, my friend!