Wednesday Reading Meme
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osprey_archerI have a new book icon! It seemed like time for an icon spring cleaning, so I've been hunting new icons down. I like to imagine the tiny carriage just sort of sprouted out of the book.
Wednesday reading meme:
What I Just Finished Reading
I...have actually not finished anything new since the last time I posted this meme, not counting books for class that are probably not of much interest to you unless you feel a burning desire to learn more about Charles Willson Peale, an early American artist who named all his children after artists.
Seriously. His sons were Rubens and Rembrandt and Raphaelle and Titian. I bet they didn’t get teased at school at all. (And his daughter - who he also taught to paint - he named Angelica Kauffman, after the Swiss painter.)
What I’m Reading Now
Sherwood Smith’s Danse de la Folie. Now, you may object that I was reading this two weeks ago, as indeed I was, but it is on my Kindle and...I kind of forgot to take my Kindle with me over spring break. O.o
So I am reading it now! Kitty just intervened in an abduction that turned out not to be an abduction at all. ILU Kitty!
What I’m Reading Next
Probably Reinhold Niebuhr’s The Irony of American History, because we read about it in one of the books I read for class and it sounds fascinating. It’s about pride and hubris and original sin!
I also mean to read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, mostly because it is short, and also because hopefully it will make me care more about my Postcolonial Theory class. We actually had a vote yesterday on whether to read more Homi Bhabha, and everyone in the class but me voted yes. WHY GOD WHY?
Wednesday reading meme:
What I Just Finished Reading
I...have actually not finished anything new since the last time I posted this meme, not counting books for class that are probably not of much interest to you unless you feel a burning desire to learn more about Charles Willson Peale, an early American artist who named all his children after artists.
Seriously. His sons were Rubens and Rembrandt and Raphaelle and Titian. I bet they didn’t get teased at school at all. (And his daughter - who he also taught to paint - he named Angelica Kauffman, after the Swiss painter.)
What I’m Reading Now
Sherwood Smith’s Danse de la Folie. Now, you may object that I was reading this two weeks ago, as indeed I was, but it is on my Kindle and...I kind of forgot to take my Kindle with me over spring break. O.o
So I am reading it now! Kitty just intervened in an abduction that turned out not to be an abduction at all. ILU Kitty!
What I’m Reading Next
Probably Reinhold Niebuhr’s The Irony of American History, because we read about it in one of the books I read for class and it sounds fascinating. It’s about pride and hubris and original sin!
I also mean to read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, mostly because it is short, and also because hopefully it will make me care more about my Postcolonial Theory class. We actually had a vote yesterday on whether to read more Homi Bhabha, and everyone in the class but me voted yes. WHY GOD WHY?
