The perils of trawling the Internet were made startlingly manifest to me recently when I came across this blog, my old brainchild of book reviewing. I had mostly forgotten about it, I am ashamed to say. However, I was still rather interested to see what I used to spend masses of my time doing when I was a sixteen year old shrimplet with an unformed brain and a cringingly pretentious writing style. To be fair, I still have the pretentious writing style. And I'm still a shrimplet compared to most normal people.
The feeling of coming across Boni Libri today was a bit like that which surrounds the finding an old sketchbook that one used to be very proud of and discovering that one's once prized drawings of great European cathedrals were all done in crude lines of purple crayon. I can understand where I was going with Boni Libri and the backbone for good writing and reviewing is there somewhere, but I was trying to use the crayon stub of unformed thinking to express my musings on the books I was reading and considering.
I intend now, in returning to Boni Libri, to attempt to put into practice a few of the things I have learned in the last few years. I can't claim now to be an expert reader or an experienced writer, but I know what I enjoy or can handle with reading and my writing skills are more developed than they used to be, hence, a second attempt at reviewing books.
The last few years have not been particularly kind to me, but they have given me many opportunities to learn and grow both intellectually and personally. Hopefully in all that has happened I have actually developed for the better, though I suppose only time will tell! A large part of this growth, however, can be attributed to the effect of reading and learning to think about what I read. I intend to exercise my brain further through the use of this blog as a tool to assist me in considering more thoroughly the things that I read and what I do with what I learn.
~ Alice
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