Wednesday Reading Meme
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osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
Elizabeth Wein’s The Pearl Thief, which features JULIE MAKING OUT WITH GIRLS, a.k.a. everything that I have ever wanted from an Elizabeth Wein book. Well, perhaps not everything, if it was everything it would have been Julie making out with Maddie Brodatt, but close enough. I quite liked Ellen.
IT’S SO SAD, THOUGH, I’ve put off reading this book for ages because I knew it would be so sad - not because of anything in the book itself, but because Julie is so bright and alive in it and we the readers know that she’s going to be dead in just a few years and it’s so SAD. It’s sadder because the book is so vibrant and alive.
Also, who is going to tell Ellen? Well, Jamie probably, if they ever cross paths again - who knows where Ellen will end up with a war on? Or perhaps Sandy, if he does marry Mary, and ends up spending lots of time in Strathfearn. But they won’t be allowed to tell her any details - loose lips sink ships and all that. I suppose it’s just as well not to know the details, though, what good would it do to hear that she was taken prisoner by the Gestapo and died after suffering horribly.
But at the same time it is good to see Julie young and alive and happy, and having a lovely drive with Ellen up into the hills, and solving a mystery with Jamie and dancing in a necklace that might have belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots.
What I’m Reading Now
At last I started The Ordinary Acrobat and I’m quite enjoying it! I had not realized that a memoir about attending a circus school was a thing that I wanted in my life, but it totally is and it’s just as fascinating as it sounds. And also it has made me want to learn how to juggle.
I found myself pining for the bucolic world of Miss Read, so I went ahead and borrowed the last two Miss Reads in my mother’s collection: Thrush Green and Winter in Thrush Green. Will I be forced to turn to the library to supplement my Miss Read needs? Perhaps! Although probably I should give James Herriot a try first - I think he’s got a similar thing going on in his tales of life as a country vet, in the quirkily amusing yet tranquil English countryside.
What I Plan to Read Next
Now that I’ve almost finished reading down my pile of books-I-own-but-haven’t-read, I’ve decided that it’s time to make some serious progress on my to-read list. Perhaps Emily Arsenault’s The Leaf Reader? I quite enjoyed her earlier novelThe Broken Teaglass, and it sent me on a fruitful search for more mystery novels about unraveling literary puzzles. Or maybe some more Jon Krakauer…
I’ve already borrowed Sara Pennypacker’s Summer of the Gypsy Moths from the library, though, so probably I will read that first.
Elizabeth Wein’s The Pearl Thief, which features JULIE MAKING OUT WITH GIRLS, a.k.a. everything that I have ever wanted from an Elizabeth Wein book. Well, perhaps not everything, if it was everything it would have been Julie making out with Maddie Brodatt, but close enough. I quite liked Ellen.
IT’S SO SAD, THOUGH, I’ve put off reading this book for ages because I knew it would be so sad - not because of anything in the book itself, but because Julie is so bright and alive in it and we the readers know that she’s going to be dead in just a few years and it’s so SAD. It’s sadder because the book is so vibrant and alive.
Also, who is going to tell Ellen? Well, Jamie probably, if they ever cross paths again - who knows where Ellen will end up with a war on? Or perhaps Sandy, if he does marry Mary, and ends up spending lots of time in Strathfearn. But they won’t be allowed to tell her any details - loose lips sink ships and all that. I suppose it’s just as well not to know the details, though, what good would it do to hear that she was taken prisoner by the Gestapo and died after suffering horribly.
But at the same time it is good to see Julie young and alive and happy, and having a lovely drive with Ellen up into the hills, and solving a mystery with Jamie and dancing in a necklace that might have belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots.
What I’m Reading Now
At last I started The Ordinary Acrobat and I’m quite enjoying it! I had not realized that a memoir about attending a circus school was a thing that I wanted in my life, but it totally is and it’s just as fascinating as it sounds. And also it has made me want to learn how to juggle.
I found myself pining for the bucolic world of Miss Read, so I went ahead and borrowed the last two Miss Reads in my mother’s collection: Thrush Green and Winter in Thrush Green. Will I be forced to turn to the library to supplement my Miss Read needs? Perhaps! Although probably I should give James Herriot a try first - I think he’s got a similar thing going on in his tales of life as a country vet, in the quirkily amusing yet tranquil English countryside.
What I Plan to Read Next
Now that I’ve almost finished reading down my pile of books-I-own-but-haven’t-read, I’ve decided that it’s time to make some serious progress on my to-read list. Perhaps Emily Arsenault’s The Leaf Reader? I quite enjoyed her earlier novelThe Broken Teaglass, and it sent me on a fruitful search for more mystery novels about unraveling literary puzzles. Or maybe some more Jon Krakauer…
I’ve already borrowed Sara Pennypacker’s Summer of the Gypsy Moths from the library, though, so probably I will read that first.
