Wednesday Reading Meme
Jan. 10th, 2018 02:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
Juliana Horatia Ewing’s Six to Sixteen! (Isn’t the author’s name splendidly euphonious?) I stumbled upon this book years ago and then lost track of it, so it was with great enthusiasm that I rediscovered it and finally got to read it. Young Margery and her best friend Eleanor have decided that they shall write their memoirs of their lives so far (from six to the advanced age of sixteen!) and then exchange them, so that if they are ever separated they can reread these memoirs and it will be as if they were talking to their friends.
This is just the sort of sentimental friendship project that I like. The book is a cozy comfort read (for all that it has a very nineteenth century death rate), starting with the description of the snug kitchen that the girls use for their office in the evenings, and mixing pleasant descriptions of sketching parties and train journeys with earnest disquisitions on the importance of female education and the consolation of intellectual pursuits.
What I’m Reading Now
I’m still plugging away on The Summer Before the War, which is one of those books that I enjoy while I’m reading it - but when I put it down I feel no real call to pick it back up.
What I Plan to Read Next
I’m not sure! I got a good many books at Christmas and perhaps ought to get started on those. It’s hard to go wrong with a book entitled My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs.
Juliana Horatia Ewing’s Six to Sixteen! (Isn’t the author’s name splendidly euphonious?) I stumbled upon this book years ago and then lost track of it, so it was with great enthusiasm that I rediscovered it and finally got to read it. Young Margery and her best friend Eleanor have decided that they shall write their memoirs of their lives so far (from six to the advanced age of sixteen!) and then exchange them, so that if they are ever separated they can reread these memoirs and it will be as if they were talking to their friends.
This is just the sort of sentimental friendship project that I like. The book is a cozy comfort read (for all that it has a very nineteenth century death rate), starting with the description of the snug kitchen that the girls use for their office in the evenings, and mixing pleasant descriptions of sketching parties and train journeys with earnest disquisitions on the importance of female education and the consolation of intellectual pursuits.
What I’m Reading Now
I’m still plugging away on The Summer Before the War, which is one of those books that I enjoy while I’m reading it - but when I put it down I feel no real call to pick it back up.
What I Plan to Read Next
I’m not sure! I got a good many books at Christmas and perhaps ought to get started on those. It’s hard to go wrong with a book entitled My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs.
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Date: 2018-01-11 03:36 am (UTC)Also, do you want a copy of The Cloister Walk? It would be the easiest thing in the world for me to toss it in the mail.
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Date: 2018-01-11 04:20 pm (UTC)And YES I do want a copy of The Cloister Walk! Book exchanges FTW!
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Date: 2018-01-11 04:43 pm (UTC)I'll put TCW in the mail today!