Wednesday Reading Meme

[osprey_archer]

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

Rosemary Sutcliff’s Brother Dusty-Feet. But I intend to write a post about the Sutcliff things I’ve been reading, so I shan’t detain us here.

What I’m Reading Now

Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, though I am almost done. SO MANY PEOPLE DIE IN THIS BOOK. SO MANY PEOPLE.

Also I’ve gotten a copy of The Wind in the Willows without all the annoying annotations, so yay! I’m going to read that, too.

What I Plan to Read Next

I have the audiobook for Madeleine L’Engle’s And Both Were Young, so definitely that. Otherwise I’m not sure. I’m thinking I should finish the Sutcliff books at this library, because every library seems to have a different selection, so who knows when I’ll get another crack at these in particular? I definitely plan to read The Shield Ring.

Otherwise the library has mostly Sutcliff retellings, which I’m less interested in: Black Ships Before Troy, The Wandering of Odysseus, Tristan and Iseult, The Sword and the Circle, and The High Deeds of Finn Mac Cool. I might read Finn Mac Cool just because I’ve never heard of the story before….Does anyone feel strongly that I should read any of the others.

Comments

[silverusagi]

I am six chapters into North and South. Of course, I've been six chapters in forever. I seem to have a stack of books that I started and not finished. I blame fanfic. (I have seen the miniseries, though, so I don't think it will be that hard to pick back up.)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who got stuck something like a hundred pages from the end of War and Peace. Wouldn't you finish W&P if you got that close to the end? But apparently Tolstoy killed her favorite character twice, and she's too bitter to go on with it.

[kikainausagi.livejournal.com]

I remember getting Black Ships Before Troy (the edition handsomely illustrated by Alan Lee) out of the library when I was a wee thing and loving it. I suspect that reading it if you are already familiar with the Iliad would probably be kind of boring, but man, those illustrations. They were great.

It's one of those books I keep an eye out for in used bookstores, because I want it for future children.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

It's very short, so I may check it out just to see. Particularly if it has nice illustrations. I do love nice illustrations.