Wednesday Reading Meme
Jan. 29th, 2025 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
I’ve been so busy with house stuff that I finished nothing new this week! (Well, okay, I finished Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions, but Peasprout demanded her own post.)
What I’m Reading Now
Meandering along in William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. Becky Sharp has just received a proposal of marriage from a baronet, which she has been forced to turn down because… she’s already married! This is as much a surprise to the reader as to the baronet, and I for one am wondering if this is the firmest and most polite way she could think of to turn him down on the spur of the moment. Although let’s face it, it wouldn’t be very Becky Sharp to turn down a rich man, no matter how odious, so probably she IS married and we’ll discover the groom in the next couple of chapters.
What I Plan to Read Next
The 2025 Newbery awards have been announced! And they’ve given yet another medal to Erin Entrada Kelly, WHY, both of her previous Newbery books have been astoundingly mediocre, I just don’t get it.
Oh well. The other authors are all new to me, so that will be an exciting adventure!
I’ve been so busy with house stuff that I finished nothing new this week! (Well, okay, I finished Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions, but Peasprout demanded her own post.)
What I’m Reading Now
Meandering along in William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. Becky Sharp has just received a proposal of marriage from a baronet, which she has been forced to turn down because… she’s already married! This is as much a surprise to the reader as to the baronet, and I for one am wondering if this is the firmest and most polite way she could think of to turn him down on the spur of the moment. Although let’s face it, it wouldn’t be very Becky Sharp to turn down a rich man, no matter how odious, so probably she IS married and we’ll discover the groom in the next couple of chapters.
What I Plan to Read Next
The 2025 Newbery awards have been announced! And they’ve given yet another medal to Erin Entrada Kelly, WHY, both of her previous Newbery books have been astoundingly mediocre, I just don’t get it.
Oh well. The other authors are all new to me, so that will be an exciting adventure!
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Date: 2025-01-31 01:02 pm (UTC)