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osprey_archer) wrote2018-08-01 09:06 am
osprey_archer) wrote2018-08-01 09:06 am
Wednesday Reading Meme
What I Just Finished Reading
Margaret Sidney’s Five Little Peppers, and How They Grew, in which a poor but honest an ever-cheerful family achieves the American dream through hard work and… well, honestly, mostly through being adopted en masse by a cranky rich man, who decides he wants all five children and their mother to live with him forever to bring cheer and joy into his loveless house and also entertain his son so he doesn’t have to.
Then it turns out they’re all cousins anyway, which seems like a somewhat random ending, although I suppose it does protect the Peppers from being turned out should the cranky rich man tire of them. And it seems like an appropriately treacly end to a book that was pretty treacly all through. But I’ve meant to read it for years so it’s nice to have that done and dusted.
What I’m Reading Now
The Penderwicks at Last! Which is the final Penderwicks book, which gives me mixed feelings, because on the one hand the Penderwicks deserves a proper conclusion, but on the other… no more Penderwicks books! What will I do??? Even among children’s authors these days, there are so few writing books so full of good cheer and happy times. ALL I WANT IS FUCKING PICNICS, AUTHORS. GIVE ME MY GODDAMN PICNICS.
I’m also still working on My Brilliant Career. I’m reading it on the computer at the library and described it to my library friend, who now asks me every time she sees me, “So does she have a career yet?” I am halfway through this book and Sybylla does not have so much as a ghost of a career.
She has just sort of accepted a marriage proposal, but only so that she break her suitor’s heart at the end of a three month secret probationary engagement she’s insisted they should have. Not that she doesn’t like him, you understand, she just doesn’t get why he asked her to marry him and this is her plan to deal with it. What?
I read on the Wikipedia page that Miles Franklin wrote this book when she was sixteen to amuse her friends, and I think that explains a lot about it.
What I Plan to Read Next
Oh God, I’ve got so many books from the library. So many. All my holds are streaming in all at the same time, and also people keep turning in books that I’m like “Oh hey, this looks like a fun read!”
There’s one called The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons from the Sawtooth Pack that I’m super looking forward to. I love books about animal social dynamics; I feel like they’re often less bullshitty than books about human social dynamics (although sometimes they're bullshitty in their own special way).
Margaret Sidney’s Five Little Peppers, and How They Grew, in which a poor but honest an ever-cheerful family achieves the American dream through hard work and… well, honestly, mostly through being adopted en masse by a cranky rich man, who decides he wants all five children and their mother to live with him forever to bring cheer and joy into his loveless house and also entertain his son so he doesn’t have to.
Then it turns out they’re all cousins anyway, which seems like a somewhat random ending, although I suppose it does protect the Peppers from being turned out should the cranky rich man tire of them. And it seems like an appropriately treacly end to a book that was pretty treacly all through. But I’ve meant to read it for years so it’s nice to have that done and dusted.
What I’m Reading Now
The Penderwicks at Last! Which is the final Penderwicks book, which gives me mixed feelings, because on the one hand the Penderwicks deserves a proper conclusion, but on the other… no more Penderwicks books! What will I do??? Even among children’s authors these days, there are so few writing books so full of good cheer and happy times. ALL I WANT IS FUCKING PICNICS, AUTHORS. GIVE ME MY GODDAMN PICNICS.
I’m also still working on My Brilliant Career. I’m reading it on the computer at the library and described it to my library friend, who now asks me every time she sees me, “So does she have a career yet?” I am halfway through this book and Sybylla does not have so much as a ghost of a career.
She has just sort of accepted a marriage proposal, but only so that she break her suitor’s heart at the end of a three month secret probationary engagement she’s insisted they should have. Not that she doesn’t like him, you understand, she just doesn’t get why he asked her to marry him and this is her plan to deal with it. What?
I read on the Wikipedia page that Miles Franklin wrote this book when she was sixteen to amuse her friends, and I think that explains a lot about it.
What I Plan to Read Next
Oh God, I’ve got so many books from the library. So many. All my holds are streaming in all at the same time, and also people keep turning in books that I’m like “Oh hey, this looks like a fun read!”
There’s one called The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons from the Sawtooth Pack that I’m super looking forward to. I love books about animal social dynamics; I feel like they’re often less bullshitty than books about human social dynamics (although sometimes they're bullshitty in their own special way).
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