Wednesday Reading Meme
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osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
Seamas O’Reilly’s Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?, which is much funnier than you might expect from a memoir with a title like that. (Or perhaps exactly as funny as you might expect from a memoir with a title so baldly about grief, actually.) I particularly liked the chapter about O’Reilly’s father’s habit of taping movies off the TV and them cataloging them all until the collection filled a small room, each tape indexed to a three-ring binder, which doesn’t sound too funny now that I’ve typed it out but somehow the way he writes it is both hilarious and full of affection for his father.
I also read Meindert DeJong’s 1954 Newbery Honor winner Shadrach. Shadrach is an adorable little black bunny, pet of a little Dutch boy named Davie, and shockingly he survives the book! Near the end Shadrach escapes his hutch and disappears, and all seems lost… but then Davie finds Shadrach munching away at oats in a secret room in the back of the barn!
What I’m Reading Now
In The Yellow Poppy, the Duc has been SENTENCED TO DEATH. An escape plan is afoot, but WILL IT REACH HIM IN TIME? Brencourt, repenting too late of his perfidy, has said that he wishes he could change places with the Duc, but I hope and trust that Broster realizes this plot twist is far too A Tale of Two Cities to carry out.
Also keeping steadily on in Maeve Binchy’s Circle of Friends. Jack Foley has just asked Miss Benny Hogan out to lunch at the Dolphin, and since the book has three heroines and only one hero I am a bit worried it’s all going to devolve into love triangles, but I remind myself that I loved Binchy’s Evening Class and must simply trust her here.
And galloping onward in R. A. MacAvoy’s The Grey Horse! Ruairi, the grey horse who has become a man, is attempting to woo fiery dark Maire, who insists he must become a Christian before they wed… which, as Ruairi is a fairy, may prove a bit of a struggle! We’ll see if the priest sees his way clear to doing it.
What I Plan to Read Next
Meindert DeJong’s other Newbery book from 1954, Hurry Home, Candy, which is about a little lost dog. Will Candy bite the dust by the end of the book? Stay tuned to find out!
Seamas O’Reilly’s Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?, which is much funnier than you might expect from a memoir with a title like that. (Or perhaps exactly as funny as you might expect from a memoir with a title so baldly about grief, actually.) I particularly liked the chapter about O’Reilly’s father’s habit of taping movies off the TV and them cataloging them all until the collection filled a small room, each tape indexed to a three-ring binder, which doesn’t sound too funny now that I’ve typed it out but somehow the way he writes it is both hilarious and full of affection for his father.
I also read Meindert DeJong’s 1954 Newbery Honor winner Shadrach. Shadrach is an adorable little black bunny, pet of a little Dutch boy named Davie, and shockingly he survives the book! Near the end Shadrach escapes his hutch and disappears, and all seems lost… but then Davie finds Shadrach munching away at oats in a secret room in the back of the barn!
What I’m Reading Now
In The Yellow Poppy, the Duc has been SENTENCED TO DEATH. An escape plan is afoot, but WILL IT REACH HIM IN TIME? Brencourt, repenting too late of his perfidy, has said that he wishes he could change places with the Duc, but I hope and trust that Broster realizes this plot twist is far too A Tale of Two Cities to carry out.
Also keeping steadily on in Maeve Binchy’s Circle of Friends. Jack Foley has just asked Miss Benny Hogan out to lunch at the Dolphin, and since the book has three heroines and only one hero I am a bit worried it’s all going to devolve into love triangles, but I remind myself that I loved Binchy’s Evening Class and must simply trust her here.
And galloping onward in R. A. MacAvoy’s The Grey Horse! Ruairi, the grey horse who has become a man, is attempting to woo fiery dark Maire, who insists he must become a Christian before they wed… which, as Ruairi is a fairy, may prove a bit of a struggle! We’ll see if the priest sees his way clear to doing it.
What I Plan to Read Next
Meindert DeJong’s other Newbery book from 1954, Hurry Home, Candy, which is about a little lost dog. Will Candy bite the dust by the end of the book? Stay tuned to find out!
