Wednesday Reading Meme
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osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
I have completed my trip through Mary Stewart’s oeuvre with Thunder on the Right! Probably not the book I would have chosen to end on; it’s one of her earlier books and, as the characters themselves note, rather melodramatic: Jennifer’s cousin Gillian was going to ENTER a NUNNERY, but instead CRASHED HER CAR and got AMNESIA so the man who rescued her told her that she was his WIFE… and then at the end of the book Gillian gets amnesia AGAIN, so she entirely forgets the three weeks she spent living with her husband the smuggler. Everyone seems agreed that this is for the best, but I for one am just a bit concerned what will happen if it turns out those three weeks have left her pregnant. Also still unclear why she planned to become a nun in the first place?
There is also a Spanish woman who is not a nun, but really WANTS to be a nun, who is using her ill-gotten gains from her association with the smuggler to fill the convent with treasures (which may or may not be stolen?). Also she might be an evil lesbian.
However, I know that I’ll be revisiting some of Stewart’s books, so this is not really the end of the journey at all. I own A Walk in Wolf Wood, and someday I WILL find a copy of Ludo and the Star Horse.
What I’m Reading Now
Onward in David Copperfield! David has run away to his Aunt Betsey Trotwood, who has taken him in, and when David’s evil stepfather Mr. Murdstone came to collect David, she soundly rated him for the way that he treated David and David’s poor dear dead mother both. YES AUNT TROTWOOD GO GO GO.
What I Plan to Read Next
Nancy Springer’s I Am Morgan La Fay and I Am Mordred. Judging by the cover of I Am Morgan La Fay these are going to be Arthuriana by way of 90s emo and I’m fascinated to see how this mash-up works.
I have completed my trip through Mary Stewart’s oeuvre with Thunder on the Right! Probably not the book I would have chosen to end on; it’s one of her earlier books and, as the characters themselves note, rather melodramatic: Jennifer’s cousin Gillian was going to ENTER a NUNNERY, but instead CRASHED HER CAR and got AMNESIA so the man who rescued her told her that she was his WIFE… and then at the end of the book Gillian gets amnesia AGAIN, so she entirely forgets the three weeks she spent living with her husband the smuggler. Everyone seems agreed that this is for the best, but I for one am just a bit concerned what will happen if it turns out those three weeks have left her pregnant. Also still unclear why she planned to become a nun in the first place?
There is also a Spanish woman who is not a nun, but really WANTS to be a nun, who is using her ill-gotten gains from her association with the smuggler to fill the convent with treasures (which may or may not be stolen?). Also she might be an evil lesbian.
However, I know that I’ll be revisiting some of Stewart’s books, so this is not really the end of the journey at all. I own A Walk in Wolf Wood, and someday I WILL find a copy of Ludo and the Star Horse.
What I’m Reading Now
Onward in David Copperfield! David has run away to his Aunt Betsey Trotwood, who has taken him in, and when David’s evil stepfather Mr. Murdstone came to collect David, she soundly rated him for the way that he treated David and David’s poor dear dead mother both. YES AUNT TROTWOOD GO GO GO.
What I Plan to Read Next
Nancy Springer’s I Am Morgan La Fay and I Am Mordred. Judging by the cover of I Am Morgan La Fay these are going to be Arthuriana by way of 90s emo and I’m fascinated to see how this mash-up works.
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Date: 2023-01-19 02:06 am (UTC)Based on my general experience with Nancy Springer, probably with large amounts of id, WTF, or both.
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Date: 2023-01-20 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-01-22 11:28 pm (UTC)I kept associating the faults of the book with its being in third person rather than Stewart's usual first, but I don't think that was really the problem.
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Date: 2023-01-24 08:53 pm (UTC)I did love the jolly geologists. Not entirely sure what they're doing in the book (they do feel a bit like they wandered in from another story) but they do brighten the place up a bit.
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Date: 2023-01-25 01:22 am (UTC)