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4/5 for Shakespeare's Englishes: Against Englishness, a densely written book that was more academic than demotic in its register for sure. I enjoyed the experience of reading it and learned a lot, but could also feel confirmation bias at work and even then still noted instances where the arguments made seemed to tend toward tenuous. It also confirmed two other things for me:
(1) I absolutely HATE so-called "real" page numbers, with a passion. The book was a pdf, and having to click twice to advance the page count by one was corrosive to my sense of self-worth, especially as I was already reading at a crawl. The ill-yclept "real" page numbers are the work of the Devil.
(2) - I'm definitely doing better with nonfiction than fiction. The stats at The StoryGraph confirmed my suspicion about this, revealing that for 2021, theaverage rating out of 5 for each type is as follows
nonfiction 3.94
fiction 3.4
And now I'm going to see if I can bump that fiction average up before the end of the year with some light SF, Nathan Lovell's Half Share
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