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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 23, 2021, 01:24:36 pm ---You have remarkable discipline, Jeff.
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Maybe not. I'm becoming picky. I've started to skip the movie and TV articles, and the Talk of the Town political pieces.
I just finished "The Skeleton Lake" (Dec. 14). I'm always up for a good historical mystery story, and that's a good one. I especially like the part about what DNA can tell ups about history.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 24, 2021, 12:46:45 am ---Maybe not. I'm becoming picky. I've started to skip the movie and TV articles, and the Talk of the Town political pieces.
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I've been doing that for some time. I don't read movie or TV reviews unless I'm familiar with the shows. I kind of skim political Talk of the Town pieces, at most, depending on their authors and political events. I rarely read the cultural TotT pieces unless I recognize and like the byline. I glance at Shouts & Murmurs and can usually tell pretty quickly whether it's unusual and imaginative ... or more often, especially with frequent writers, a kind of formulaic tired humor.
I almost never read theater or art reviews because I'm unlikely to be familiar with -- or ever have a chance to see -- their subjects. But I often read book reviews, based on my familiarity with the books themselves or interest in the topic.
As for the rest, it's hit and miss depending on the topic and author. I miss a lot of good ones, though, I discover when I weed through the pile later. I pull those out for later reading and still rarely get to them. :-\
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 24, 2021, 12:46:45 am ---
I just finished "The Skeleton Lake" (Dec. 14). I'm always up for a good historical mystery story, and that's a good one. I especially like the part about what DNA can tell ups about history.
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Yes, that was a great article. So good, I read it twice. I've been in the Himalayas, so I was interested for that reason as well.
Jeff Wrangler:
I've started checking the tables of contents in some of the issues I'm behind, and I'm surprised that some of them don't have much that looks interesting to me.
serious crayons:
I almost always find at least one thing that looks worth reading.
A really good issue might have four or five things.
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