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Wednesday Reading Meme
Feb. 26th, 2025 08:01 amWhat I Just Finished Reading
Ingrid Fetell Lee’s Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness is actually a reread, as I saw it in the bookstore last week and on impulse bought it. It’s still a delicious pleasure to read (as I said in my previous review, “It’s just so rare to read anything that is such an unabashed celebration of the joyful”), and also so inspiring as I work on the Hummingbird Cottage: a reminder to embrace my love of bright colors and flowers and round things to create a joyful space.
What I’m Reading Now
In Vanity Fair, Becky has achieved her lifelong dream of being presented at Court! As a result, her lover (?) Lord Steyne bullies his female relations into inviting Becky to a dinner party, wherein said female relations cut Becky dead. “Assuredly, the greatest tyrants over women are women,” Thackeray writes, directly after a scene where Lord Steyne tells his sister-in-law, “Gaunt's tired of you, and George's wife is the only person in the family who doesn't wish you were dead.” Yes, being rude to a dinner guest is definitely a greater tyranny than making all one’s female relations daily lives a living hell.
What I Plan to Read Next
The end of Vanity Fair is in sight! (Still a long way off, but in sight.) I believe my next classic will be Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend.
Ingrid Fetell Lee’s Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness is actually a reread, as I saw it in the bookstore last week and on impulse bought it. It’s still a delicious pleasure to read (as I said in my previous review, “It’s just so rare to read anything that is such an unabashed celebration of the joyful”), and also so inspiring as I work on the Hummingbird Cottage: a reminder to embrace my love of bright colors and flowers and round things to create a joyful space.
What I’m Reading Now
In Vanity Fair, Becky has achieved her lifelong dream of being presented at Court! As a result, her lover (?) Lord Steyne bullies his female relations into inviting Becky to a dinner party, wherein said female relations cut Becky dead. “Assuredly, the greatest tyrants over women are women,” Thackeray writes, directly after a scene where Lord Steyne tells his sister-in-law, “Gaunt's tired of you, and George's wife is the only person in the family who doesn't wish you were dead.” Yes, being rude to a dinner guest is definitely a greater tyranny than making all one’s female relations daily lives a living hell.
What I Plan to Read Next
The end of Vanity Fair is in sight! (Still a long way off, but in sight.) I believe my next classic will be Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend.
