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Wednesday Reading Meme
Jun. 21st, 2023 07:50 amWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
James Ramsay Ullman’s Banner in the Sky, which brings me to the end of the Newbery books of the 1950s! An exciting adventure yarn of young Rudi, yearns to be a mountain guide in the Alps like his father. However, since his father’s tragic death when Rudi was a baby, Rudi’s mother has been trying to herd him into the safer alternative of hotel work. But the call of the mountains will not be denied, and soon Rudi is taking part in an attempt to conquer the last unconquered Alp - the mountain that killed his father - the Citadel…
Another exciting adventure yarn: W. E. Johns’ Biggles Fails to Return, evidently the first Bertie book, although he’s very casually introduced. An excellent ensemble piece! Mid-World War II, Biggles fails to return from a mission to rescue a princess in Monaco. Algy & Ginger team up with Bertie (who just happens to have spent the pre-war years racing yachts in Monaco) to find out if Biggles is still alive, and if possible bring him home.
What I’m Reading Now
Teresa Lust’s A Blissful Feast: Culinary Adventures in Italy’s Piedmont, Maremma, and Le Marche, a delightful food memoir which has filled me with the desire to run away and spend the next six months or so traipsing about Italy trying all the different cuisines. Perhaps a pause for a month at an intensive Italian language school first, and then away to try gnocchi alla bava and roasted roebuck and chestnut cakes…
What I Plan to Read Next
I was going to say “taking a break from Newbery books!”, but in fact I have one last trip to the Lilly planned on Friday, during which time I’m hoping to zip through two Newbery Honor books: Julia Davis Adams’ Vaino, A Boy of New Finland, and Eloise Lownsbery’s Out of the Flame. However, I am taking a breaklet: I won’t be starting the Newbery Honor books of the 1940s until after my birthday on July 2nd
James Ramsay Ullman’s Banner in the Sky, which brings me to the end of the Newbery books of the 1950s! An exciting adventure yarn of young Rudi, yearns to be a mountain guide in the Alps like his father. However, since his father’s tragic death when Rudi was a baby, Rudi’s mother has been trying to herd him into the safer alternative of hotel work. But the call of the mountains will not be denied, and soon Rudi is taking part in an attempt to conquer the last unconquered Alp - the mountain that killed his father - the Citadel…
Another exciting adventure yarn: W. E. Johns’ Biggles Fails to Return, evidently the first Bertie book, although he’s very casually introduced. An excellent ensemble piece! Mid-World War II, Biggles fails to return from a mission to rescue a princess in Monaco. Algy & Ginger team up with Bertie (who just happens to have spent the pre-war years racing yachts in Monaco) to find out if Biggles is still alive, and if possible bring him home.
What I’m Reading Now
Teresa Lust’s A Blissful Feast: Culinary Adventures in Italy’s Piedmont, Maremma, and Le Marche, a delightful food memoir which has filled me with the desire to run away and spend the next six months or so traipsing about Italy trying all the different cuisines. Perhaps a pause for a month at an intensive Italian language school first, and then away to try gnocchi alla bava and roasted roebuck and chestnut cakes…
What I Plan to Read Next
I was going to say “taking a break from Newbery books!”, but in fact I have one last trip to the Lilly planned on Friday, during which time I’m hoping to zip through two Newbery Honor books: Julia Davis Adams’ Vaino, A Boy of New Finland, and Eloise Lownsbery’s Out of the Flame. However, I am taking a breaklet: I won’t be starting the Newbery Honor books of the 1940s until after my birthday on July 2nd
