Engaged Reading Time - Issue #86
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Adam
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Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically?
This might be better entitled “The Undeath of the Author”. It’s a function of the context collapse that the internet facilitates, but too many people have lost any displayed ability to read critically, and sense nuance.
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Tom Baker and his wild 24 hours in Soho
This is an astonishing glimpse into another time – the late 70s. The Doctor of my childhood outlines a typical day to the Sunday Times Magazine. If a modern actor in the role lived like this and admitted it, they’d be torn apart by the press and social media blowhards.
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The Dark Reality Behind ‘Cozy Mysteries’
I love me a cozy mystery. They’re my guilty indulgence. But I also love me some deconstruction of my favourites…
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Speedo Mick joined by ice swimmers for 15-mile charity walk from Kendal to Carnforth
This is the sort of brilliant British eccentricity I thought was dead.
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Boris Johnson’s Nine Lives Are Up - Persuasion
And this is a cutting takedown of a self-serving charlatan and oaf, whose carefully constructed façade of a personable British eccentric is crumbling.
Who needs a drone?
A parrot steals a GoPro - and tries to eat it. Gets some great footage, though.