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I visited my aunt this weekend. She made cinnamon rolls and they were splendidly splendid. I must learn to make them. (But first, I must overcome my aversion to making yeast bread. The gratification is just too delayed.)
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We also went to see the Golden Dragon Acrobats perform. If you ever get a chance to see then, DO, because they are also splendid.
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And finally, I've been wending my way through Florence Morse Kingsley's 1907 opus, Those Queer Browns, which may be a socialist tract thinly disguised as a novel. It's sufficiently well disguised that I'm not sure yet, which is surely a point in it's favor.
It's told in documents - diaries, notes, etc. - and so far my favorite character is Agatha Brown, who keeps a journal she calls "Brown Studies" (this being a 19th century term for daydreams) and scrawls lines like, “He says the fact that I don’t positively dote on Higher Algebra and Trigonometry argues a weak spot in my mentality which must be strengthened by hard study.”
If the socialist tract doesn't take over the rest of the story, it may turn out to be another entry in the field of "books like I Capture the Castle."
(At some point, I need to define what it means for a book to be like I Capture the Castle. And hopefully come up with a less elongated appellation to describe such books.)
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ladyherenya, I've thought of another. Juliet in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society has a voice much like Cassandra's - in fact, I can rather imagine her as a grown-up version of Cassandra; Juliet's a writer just after World War II in Britain (and the history is handled really well).
It's an epistolary novel, and a lot of the letters are all about books and reading. I think you might really like it if you haven't read it already.
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We also went to see the Golden Dragon Acrobats perform. If you ever get a chance to see then, DO, because they are also splendid.
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And finally, I've been wending my way through Florence Morse Kingsley's 1907 opus, Those Queer Browns, which may be a socialist tract thinly disguised as a novel. It's sufficiently well disguised that I'm not sure yet, which is surely a point in it's favor.
It's told in documents - diaries, notes, etc. - and so far my favorite character is Agatha Brown, who keeps a journal she calls "Brown Studies" (this being a 19th century term for daydreams) and scrawls lines like, “He says the fact that I don’t positively dote on Higher Algebra and Trigonometry argues a weak spot in my mentality which must be strengthened by hard study.”
If the socialist tract doesn't take over the rest of the story, it may turn out to be another entry in the field of "books like I Capture the Castle."
(At some point, I need to define what it means for a book to be like I Capture the Castle. And hopefully come up with a less elongated appellation to describe such books.)
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Speaking of books like I Capture the Castle:
ladyherenya, I've thought of another. Juliet in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society has a voice much like Cassandra's - in fact, I can rather imagine her as a grown-up version of Cassandra; Juliet's a writer just after World War II in Britain (and the history is handled really well). It's an epistolary novel, and a lot of the letters are all about books and reading. I think you might really like it if you haven't read it already.
