Wednesday Reading Meme
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osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
Barbara Cooney’s The Little Juggler, which I picked up because I found it shelved next to Susan Cooper’s The Selkie Girl, and I can never resist Barbara Cooney. A charming retelling of an old French story, of a young juggler who was taken in by a monastery, and repined because unlike the monks he had no gifts to offer the Blessed Virgin, until it occurred to him that he might juggle for her.
Cooney’s illustrations are wonderful, as always. In this story, the illustrations are printed in three colors, green and red and blue, and it suggests a medieval flavor, those medieval manuscripts with their rich vibrant colors.
What I’m Reading Now
After firmly intending to begin a book by Ethel Cook Eliot, I started Abbie Farwell Brown’s Friends and Cousins instead. Two children have just returned to their beloved summer vacation cottage, and by happy accident befriended the bashful neighbor children whom they’ve never managed to meet before.
Also working on Women’s Weird (a collection of short stories written between 1880 and 1940, I believe?), Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s Fool’s Gold, Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond, Elizabeth Jane Gray’s Meggie MacIntosh, L. M. Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon… lots of things!
What I Plan to Read Next
With so many books on the go right now, I really need to finish a few up before I start anything new!
Barbara Cooney’s The Little Juggler, which I picked up because I found it shelved next to Susan Cooper’s The Selkie Girl, and I can never resist Barbara Cooney. A charming retelling of an old French story, of a young juggler who was taken in by a monastery, and repined because unlike the monks he had no gifts to offer the Blessed Virgin, until it occurred to him that he might juggle for her.
Cooney’s illustrations are wonderful, as always. In this story, the illustrations are printed in three colors, green and red and blue, and it suggests a medieval flavor, those medieval manuscripts with their rich vibrant colors.
What I’m Reading Now
After firmly intending to begin a book by Ethel Cook Eliot, I started Abbie Farwell Brown’s Friends and Cousins instead. Two children have just returned to their beloved summer vacation cottage, and by happy accident befriended the bashful neighbor children whom they’ve never managed to meet before.
Also working on Women’s Weird (a collection of short stories written between 1880 and 1940, I believe?), Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s Fool’s Gold, Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond, Elizabeth Jane Gray’s Meggie MacIntosh, L. M. Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon… lots of things!
What I Plan to Read Next
With so many books on the go right now, I really need to finish a few up before I start anything new!
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