Wednesday Reading Meme
Mar. 5th, 2025 08:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
Nothing! I have been busy with theater (still need to review A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hummingbird Cottage business and my reading has been lying neglected.
What I’m Reading
In Vanity Fair, Becky’s husband Rawdon has just been tossed into debtor’s prison. Becky tells him she can’t possibly raise the money to get him out just yet, but the kind intervention of Rawdon’s sister-in-law springs him from the hoosegow. He heads back home… and discovers Becky bedecked in jewels, laughing over an intimate tete-a-tete dinner with her “friend” Lord Steyne!
Rawdon jumps to the obvious conclusion, decks Lord Steyne, repudiates Becky, and storms out of the house, carrying with him her secret stash of money that she had hidden away in a drawer. Becky’s maid steals Becky’s jewels, leaving Becky broke with her reputation in tatters…
SMASH CUT to Major Dobbins making his long, tortuous way from India to see his beloved Amelia. We’ve spent what feels like two hundred chapters on this plotline now, and look, I have nothing against Major Dobbins and Amelia, but I am not particularly interested in them right now given that we just left Becky metaphorically hanging over the edge of a cliff clinging to a fraying rope!
What I Plan to Read Next
Trying to get through my library books before the move so I can turn them back in and not worry about them. I’ve got Idwal Jones’s Whistlers’ Van, John Le Carre’s The Secret Pilgrim, Laura Amy Schlitz’s Amber and Clay, and Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits.
Nothing! I have been busy with theater (still need to review A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hummingbird Cottage business and my reading has been lying neglected.
What I’m Reading
In Vanity Fair, Becky’s husband Rawdon has just been tossed into debtor’s prison. Becky tells him she can’t possibly raise the money to get him out just yet, but the kind intervention of Rawdon’s sister-in-law springs him from the hoosegow. He heads back home… and discovers Becky bedecked in jewels, laughing over an intimate tete-a-tete dinner with her “friend” Lord Steyne!
Rawdon jumps to the obvious conclusion, decks Lord Steyne, repudiates Becky, and storms out of the house, carrying with him her secret stash of money that she had hidden away in a drawer. Becky’s maid steals Becky’s jewels, leaving Becky broke with her reputation in tatters…
SMASH CUT to Major Dobbins making his long, tortuous way from India to see his beloved Amelia. We’ve spent what feels like two hundred chapters on this plotline now, and look, I have nothing against Major Dobbins and Amelia, but I am not particularly interested in them right now given that we just left Becky metaphorically hanging over the edge of a cliff clinging to a fraying rope!
What I Plan to Read Next
Trying to get through my library books before the move so I can turn them back in and not worry about them. I’ve got Idwal Jones’s Whistlers’ Van, John Le Carre’s The Secret Pilgrim, Laura Amy Schlitz’s Amber and Clay, and Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits.
