Kate’s 2¢: National Geographic November, 2020

National Geographic November, 2020

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   Back in the day, in my grandmother’s Connecticut salt box home, my aunt’s bedroom had a wall of bookshelves. Most of the shelves were crammed with National Geographics. They dated from the early Harper’s to what was then current. I liked the rows of even, yellow spines all lined up chronologically. The stories were usually lengthy with full color photographs of exotic, unique places from far and wide  around the world.

   Sometime after I started my own collection in 1970, the format of the magazine changed. Most of the “articles” were just print bites, instead of well thought out, photographed, and documented treatises based on Geographic Society sponsored explorations .

   The November, 2020, issue had two articles each under one hour in reading length. The other items were quick bites of information. I think this was supposed to be a special issue dealing with Covid-19, environment, and social ills affecting the impoverished. I found myself skipping from bite to bite, rather than listening to the fragments of information.

   Perhaps, the problem is that I’m in information over-load. It wasn’t telling me anything new, so let’s get on with it already!

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

National Geographic November, 2020

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Read by MaryBeth Wise. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.

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