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Wednesday Reading Meme
Feb. 10th, 2021 11:24 amWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
I’m not entirely convinced by the ending of Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow; I think Towles ( spoilers )
Louisa May Alcott’s Work: A Story of Experience is a peculiar, uneven book. The first six chapters are in fact about our heroine Christie leaving home to go out to work. (Her name is a reference to Christiana from Pilgrim’s Progress, which seems to have been Alcott’s ur-book: Little Women also draws from it.) Christie goes through a panoply of nineteenth-century female occupations: servant, actress, governess, companion, seamstress, before settling down as a sort of hired girl with a small family of radical reformers, mother and son, at which point the book switches gears into a romance with the son of the house, a stalwart, noble, manly fellow named David Sterling.
( Spoilers for Work and also Rose in Bloom )
What I’m Reading Now
Elizabeth Wein’s The Enigma Game. The book has three rotating first person POVs, and I’m not convinced they’re going to be sufficiently differentiated, but it’s still early days with this book, so I may yet change my mind.
What I Plan to Read Next
I have at last reached the top of the hold queue for Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi!
I’m not entirely convinced by the ending of Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow; I think Towles ( spoilers )
Louisa May Alcott’s Work: A Story of Experience is a peculiar, uneven book. The first six chapters are in fact about our heroine Christie leaving home to go out to work. (Her name is a reference to Christiana from Pilgrim’s Progress, which seems to have been Alcott’s ur-book: Little Women also draws from it.) Christie goes through a panoply of nineteenth-century female occupations: servant, actress, governess, companion, seamstress, before settling down as a sort of hired girl with a small family of radical reformers, mother and son, at which point the book switches gears into a romance with the son of the house, a stalwart, noble, manly fellow named David Sterling.
( Spoilers for Work and also Rose in Bloom )
What I’m Reading Now
Elizabeth Wein’s The Enigma Game. The book has three rotating first person POVs, and I’m not convinced they’re going to be sufficiently differentiated, but it’s still early days with this book, so I may yet change my mind.
What I Plan to Read Next
I have at last reached the top of the hold queue for Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi!
