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Wednesday Reading Meme
Nov. 28th, 2018 10:39 amWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
Jean Webster’s Just Patty, which is a very taking book about the madcap trickster Patty’s years at boarding school. I wonder why Daddy-Long-Legs is the only book of Webster’s in print? Some of them have died deserved deaths, but I think Just Patty or - even more so - When Patty Went to College might find delighted audiences today.
I also finished Thanhha Lai’s Listen, Slowly, which I ended up quite liking despite my lukewarm feelings at first. I like Mai’s unexpected friendship with a girl in her grandmother’s village, and loved all the detail about modern Vietnam - it feels almost like you’re visiting - and especially Mai’s struggles to learn how to read Vietnamese (she can understand it fairly well when it’s spoken, but doesn’t speak it well herself and never learned how to read it). The explanation of all the diacritical marks is delightful: as entertaining as it is informative.
What I’m Reading Now
Josephine Daskam Bacon’s Smith College Stories, published in 1900, and dedicated “To my Mother, who sent me to college, I offer these impressions of it.” Isn’t that sweet?
I’ve also begun reading Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s A Fabulous Creature. The fabulous creature in question appears to be a stag rather than, say, a dragon, but it’s early days yet.
What I Plan to Read Next
Josephine Daskam Bacon also wrote a book called Middle Aged Love Stories. Well, I have to read that, don’t I?
Jean Webster’s Just Patty, which is a very taking book about the madcap trickster Patty’s years at boarding school. I wonder why Daddy-Long-Legs is the only book of Webster’s in print? Some of them have died deserved deaths, but I think Just Patty or - even more so - When Patty Went to College might find delighted audiences today.
I also finished Thanhha Lai’s Listen, Slowly, which I ended up quite liking despite my lukewarm feelings at first. I like Mai’s unexpected friendship with a girl in her grandmother’s village, and loved all the detail about modern Vietnam - it feels almost like you’re visiting - and especially Mai’s struggles to learn how to read Vietnamese (she can understand it fairly well when it’s spoken, but doesn’t speak it well herself and never learned how to read it). The explanation of all the diacritical marks is delightful: as entertaining as it is informative.
What I’m Reading Now
Josephine Daskam Bacon’s Smith College Stories, published in 1900, and dedicated “To my Mother, who sent me to college, I offer these impressions of it.” Isn’t that sweet?
I’ve also begun reading Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s A Fabulous Creature. The fabulous creature in question appears to be a stag rather than, say, a dragon, but it’s early days yet.
What I Plan to Read Next
Josephine Daskam Bacon also wrote a book called Middle Aged Love Stories. Well, I have to read that, don’t I?
