Wednesday Reading Meme
Sep. 21st, 2022 06:18 amWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
Dorothy Gilman’s Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled. I really meant to save this final Mrs. Pollifax book for a rainy day… but I felt an overwhelming urge to read it now, and who am I to resist an overwhelming urge? Gilman brought back John Sebastian Farrell to team up with Mrs. Pollifax for the denouement, thus bringing the series full circle from Mrs. Pollifax’s first adventure with Farrell. A satisfying end.
As this is the last Mrs. Pollifax book, I figured it was now or never on Mrs. Pollifax - Spy, the Mrs. Pollifax movie starring Rosalind Russell as Mrs. Pollifax. Russell is a goddamn delight, but I was sorry ( Spoilers )
Last January I bombed out of Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave, but I gave it another try with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
littlerhymes and we powered through! It helped perhaps that I went into it knowing that this is going to be the book where Everyone Is Mean to Merlin, and not in a tragic woobie way either: that’s just how the bannock crumbles in the harsh world of Dark Ages Britain.
What I’m Reading Now
Elizabeth Brooks’ The Orphan of Salt Winds, a delicious novel which has performed the difficult feat of making both its historical and its modern-day plotlines equally gothic. On the eve of World War II, orphan Virginia is adopted by the young couple who own the seaside house Salt Winds, in what the reader quickly senses is a doomed attempt to save their rickety marriage. In the modern day, Virginia in her old age finds a curlew skull on the doorstep of Salt Winds, which she believes is a sign that tomorrow night she must walk into the marsh to drown… No idea where this is headed, but loving every minute of it.
In Dracula, Lucy has DIED. Could this all have been avoided if Van Helsing had been a literal more liberal in sharing information so that everyone was on the same page about the necessity of the garlic flowers and keeping a constant watch over her at night? MAYBE.littlerhymes and I also agreed that PERHAPS if Mina had been summoned, her blood might have saved Lucy: the love of a good woman etc. Lucy Westenra, killed by heteronormativity…
What I Plan to Read Next
Onward in the Merlin Chronicles!
Dorothy Gilman’s Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled. I really meant to save this final Mrs. Pollifax book for a rainy day… but I felt an overwhelming urge to read it now, and who am I to resist an overwhelming urge? Gilman brought back John Sebastian Farrell to team up with Mrs. Pollifax for the denouement, thus bringing the series full circle from Mrs. Pollifax’s first adventure with Farrell. A satisfying end.
As this is the last Mrs. Pollifax book, I figured it was now or never on Mrs. Pollifax - Spy, the Mrs. Pollifax movie starring Rosalind Russell as Mrs. Pollifax. Russell is a goddamn delight, but I was sorry ( Spoilers )
Last January I bombed out of Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave, but I gave it another try with
littlerhymes and we powered through! It helped perhaps that I went into it knowing that this is going to be the book where Everyone Is Mean to Merlin, and not in a tragic woobie way either: that’s just how the bannock crumbles in the harsh world of Dark Ages Britain. What I’m Reading Now
Elizabeth Brooks’ The Orphan of Salt Winds, a delicious novel which has performed the difficult feat of making both its historical and its modern-day plotlines equally gothic. On the eve of World War II, orphan Virginia is adopted by the young couple who own the seaside house Salt Winds, in what the reader quickly senses is a doomed attempt to save their rickety marriage. In the modern day, Virginia in her old age finds a curlew skull on the doorstep of Salt Winds, which she believes is a sign that tomorrow night she must walk into the marsh to drown… No idea where this is headed, but loving every minute of it.
In Dracula, Lucy has DIED. Could this all have been avoided if Van Helsing had been a literal more liberal in sharing information so that everyone was on the same page about the necessity of the garlic flowers and keeping a constant watch over her at night? MAYBE.
littlerhymes and I also agreed that PERHAPS if Mina had been summoned, her blood might have saved Lucy: the love of a good woman etc. Lucy Westenra, killed by heteronormativity… What I Plan to Read Next
Onward in the Merlin Chronicles!
