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RE: Book Review: "Three Kingdoms," by Luo Guanzhong
hi dear @patriamreminisci, great review! I don't like to read things that are too long, I lose myself ... but you have given a great description of this volume and some significant details that certainly deserve attention. Do you write reviews for work or as a hobby?
congratulations on your work and on the curie vote
Thanks for your congratulations!
I actually only do it as a hobby (my main work is teaching and the main focus of my blog is political commentary), and this is the first fictional work I've reviewed. I've posted some reviews on my blog here, but they're all China-related.
Given the attention this one has gotten, I may start focusing on more reviews and less political commentary. They seem to be more popular.
how nice, what do you teach?
I think that politics is a difficult topic, even the most interested people soon get tired of talking or listening about it, because often the problems are always the same while no solution comes in to help the citizen. it takes real passion !!
on the other hand, reviews on books or films always give a hint, make people curious and they too can make people aware of some important issues! keep on
For my day-job (and according to my Visa) I teach what is listed as "Oral English," which is basically a class where Chinese public schools expect a foreign teacher (who they automatically assume has no credentials or any idea how to teach, because I'm foreign - never mind either of my twin Masters Degrees in Ed or my 440 hours of post-certification instruction) to keep what is laughably called an English class entertained and out of the way for an hour each day.
The bulk of my income (and my only real job satisfaction) comes from tutoring after school, where I teach beginner Karate, voice, saxophone, Western Literature, theater, and Cambridge Test Preparation (about two classes of each per week).
I also find time to be a student: I'm studying more advanced Karate (the black belt exam is about a year off) as well as studying the Tagalog language (my children's first-language) and Russian, though I'm not very good at foreign languages.
Anyway, yes I do seem to notice that reviews are more popular. I definitely will be dropping more of them here. It takes a week to write a political analysis (at least with the number of sources I like to cite) and only about an hour or two to write a book review, so it will be a good way to get a little more exposure.