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Dudes Go Exploring

I don't know why but I do love first-person accounts where older Europeans go exploring to foreign parts, and write about it. Sometimes it's an interesting culture clash, sometimes they come off looking like racists fools. Both can be fun.

27 books

Matt is Ambivalent about Short Stories

I'll bet half of my notes on these start with 'I don't really like short stories...' And yet: many of the world's greatest writers wrote great short stories! So I try not to turn up my nose, just because I love a good 500-page novel.

14 books

Prester John

Around 2010 I got very interested in Prester John, the mythical priest-king of the Middle Ages. I have a whole big presentation on him!

19 books

Reading about, but not actually attempting, new hobbies

We all get that itch to say, start an apiary, learn basketweaving, invent a new language. Maybe you should just check out some books at the library instead.

15 books

What the Dickens

I really like Charles Dickens - I mean who doesn't - but actually Chesterton's essays about Dickens helped me appreciate it on a different level.