[ADD] Blog post providing book review of Animal Farm.

[ultimatecoder]

• Description: A blog post describing my book review of the Animal Farm. Please write your comments here in the PR. I am expecting help with grammar and sentence composition. Thanks!

[jesusinadidas]

I'm on my phone and typing isn't much fun, so I just looked over the first section. Here are some ideas:

Animal Farm is one of the better books I've encountered [Encountered where? In my life? During my time as a student? Maybe add clarification here]. Written in 1945 by English author Eric Arthur Blair under his pen name George Orwell [I'd consider dropping this reference to his legal name and simply referring to him as "George Orwell", unless you're going to add a lot more information about his background], it is one of his best known and most influential works. [Any references to Orwell's reputation, be it for literary criticism, social commentary, satire, or his influences on modern popular culture and political culture would fit nicely here]

[Probably better to make this a new paragraph and elaborate a bit more on the significance of the following observations:]The sentences are well composed, which aided in my comprehension. The book consists of fewer than 100 pages and I was able to complete it in two sittings [consider omitting the comment on mileage variance, as this is common sense].

[ultimatecoder]

Thanks for the review @jesusinadidas, and apologies that it took this long to come back to it. Every one of your notes is addressed below, and I have credited you as the proofreader on the post.

You mentioned you had only looked over the first section. That turned out to matter — the later sections needed more work than the first one, so I went through the whole post.

Your notes on the Introduction

Your note	What changed
"Encountered where?"	The sentence now names the field it is best of: "the best book I read in 2017."
Drop the reference to his legal name	Eric A. Blair is gone. The post never used the name again, so introducing it only slowed the opening down.
Add something on Orwell's reputation	Added a sentence on what he is remembered for, and the Times ranking now carries its year (2008).
Make this a new paragraph, elaborate on the significance	The prose observation is its own paragraph and now says why the plainness matters rather than only that it is there.
Omit the mileage variance comment	Removed. You were right that it was common sense.

The three sections you did not get to

• Typos: Pings → Pigs, Coincidently → Coincidentally, Old major → Old Major.
• The plot summary was a single 34-line paragraph that switched between past and present every few sentences. It is now four paragraphs in a consistent literary present.
• Verb complementation throughout: "succeed to out the owner", "supported them to create", "requested everyone to be allowed".
• Articles: "take the revenge", "as consequence", "pay single attention".
• Collocations: "inscribed a deep impression on my soul", "improve in myself", and "hegemony" used to mean the people holding power rather than the condition itself.

Two details about the book were also wrong and are corrected: Snowball is driven off the farm by Napoleon's dogs rather than assassinated, and Old Major dies three nights after the meeting rather than the next morning.

Rebase and CI

The branch is rebased onto current master. The repo has grown a CI pipeline since 2017, and the image budget added in #108 rejected this post's title photo, which went in at 4486x2982 and 3.4 MB.

Fixing that exposed a real bug in scripts/optimize-images: it made one attempt per photo at 1600px/q80 and accepted whatever came out. This photo settles at 403 KB, 96 KB over budget, and re-encoding does not help — passes two and three land on 403 KB again. The script still exited 0, so the only signal was scripts/test failing at --check, whose advice is to run the script. That advice was a loop with no exit.

Photos now walk down 1600/1400/1200/1000px and keep the widest size that fits, re-encoding from the untouched original each time so a narrow attempt never stacks its loss on a wider one. Anything still over budget once the ladder bottoms out is named on stderr and exits non-zero. The title photo is now 229 KB at 1200px, and it is the tool's output rather than a hand encode — re-running leaves it byte-identical.

Also fixed the image markdown, which was missing site.baseurl and left the src relative in production builds, so feed readers had nothing to resolve it against.

Verified locally before pushing: ./scripts/optimize-images --check passes, ./scripts/test passes with 179 external and 73 internal links checked, and a production build renders the image src as the absolute https://blog.jaysinh.dev/....

The post is republished under today's date rather than the December 2017 one it was written on.