I mention in my last reading update how painfully boring all of my Europe travel books are (the ones I bought about specific locations, such as Blarney Castle in Ireland).
I know I've mentioned something similar a long time ago, but why can't these writers try to make their books interesting to read? It felt almost like a deliberate attempt to make them as dry and uninteresting as possible. Especially those books that talked about the art. I know there are better things to say about art and artists that what those museum books scratch out.
And I know it can be done. I just finished John Green's new book about the history and current state of Tuberculosis. A kind of book I don't think I've ever read before. And it was good. It was entertaining, and touching.
(And fitting - one of my characters had TB as a kid, which is an idea I had before John Green got invested in the topic. I finished the first draft of that story a few months before Everything is Tuberculosis was released. So now I can do it better justice in my own story).
Why can't there be more educational books that are just good to read? It would make learning so much more fun to so many people.
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