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What's the Difference Wednesday
Sep. 21st, 2016 12:16 pmArchived from Livejournal
What I've Finished Reading
( The Groves of Academe )
(This book should not be confused with The Graves of Academe, which is a collection of one guy's angry letters about how badly written all his university's interdepartmental memos are).
( The True Actor )
What I'm Reading Now
I accidentally ended up re-reading a bunch of the Anne of Green Gables books at once, and I'm predictably full of feelings. I still can't stand Davy and Paul Irving, but there's a lot of great stuff in Anne of Avonlea that I'd forgotten, like the return of Mr. Harrison's wife and the time Anne and Diana put together The Greatest Lunch Ever for their favorite girlhood novelist, only to have her show up on the wrong day with nothing to eat in the house and Anne covered in feathers from changing the bedding. But it turns out all right anyway, thanks to quick thinking and Anne and Diana being unstoppable housekeepers.
Also: I thought I was over my dislike of Gilbert Blythe, but it turns out I am not over it AT ALL; he's worse than I remembered in House of Dreams. Anne tries to sympathize with Leslie's feeling that her life and gifts are being wasted, and Gilbert's all, "Oh, Anne, SOME PEOPLE might say that YOU'RE wasting your life by marrying the man of your choice and living in a rural community like you've always wanted! Aren't you going to reassure me even though I know the answer :D ??" SHUT UP GILBERT not everything is about you and your stupid happiness. >:(
Gilbert aside, though, Anne's House of Dreams is great, even if a huge chunk of what makes it great is "Anne gets confronted with loss and suffering."
I've gone back and forth on Anne of the Island all my life -- first I loved it, then I didn't, now I'm back up to strong liking. I'll never find Phil's cutesyness as funny as I did when I was 10, but I appreciate the last days of Ruby Gillis a lot more.
Other than the Annes, I'm reading a non-fiction book called The Spiritual Life of Children by Robert Coles. It's a collection of conversations with children about their thoughts on religion and spirituality. The author is a lot more into Freud than I'm used to, but the conversations are good.
What I Plan to Read Next
Wise Blood! Probably some other things, too. Witches Abroad as soon as I finish this little stack I'm supposed to be working through.
What I've Finished Reading
( The Groves of Academe )
(This book should not be confused with The Graves of Academe, which is a collection of one guy's angry letters about how badly written all his university's interdepartmental memos are).
( The True Actor )
What I'm Reading Now
I accidentally ended up re-reading a bunch of the Anne of Green Gables books at once, and I'm predictably full of feelings. I still can't stand Davy and Paul Irving, but there's a lot of great stuff in Anne of Avonlea that I'd forgotten, like the return of Mr. Harrison's wife and the time Anne and Diana put together The Greatest Lunch Ever for their favorite girlhood novelist, only to have her show up on the wrong day with nothing to eat in the house and Anne covered in feathers from changing the bedding. But it turns out all right anyway, thanks to quick thinking and Anne and Diana being unstoppable housekeepers.
Also: I thought I was over my dislike of Gilbert Blythe, but it turns out I am not over it AT ALL; he's worse than I remembered in House of Dreams. Anne tries to sympathize with Leslie's feeling that her life and gifts are being wasted, and Gilbert's all, "Oh, Anne, SOME PEOPLE might say that YOU'RE wasting your life by marrying the man of your choice and living in a rural community like you've always wanted! Aren't you going to reassure me even though I know the answer :D ??" SHUT UP GILBERT not everything is about you and your stupid happiness. >:(
Gilbert aside, though, Anne's House of Dreams is great, even if a huge chunk of what makes it great is "Anne gets confronted with loss and suffering."
I've gone back and forth on Anne of the Island all my life -- first I loved it, then I didn't, now I'm back up to strong liking. I'll never find Phil's cutesyness as funny as I did when I was 10, but I appreciate the last days of Ruby Gillis a lot more.
Other than the Annes, I'm reading a non-fiction book called The Spiritual Life of Children by Robert Coles. It's a collection of conversations with children about their thoughts on religion and spirituality. The author is a lot more into Freud than I'm used to, but the conversations are good.
What I Plan to Read Next
Wise Blood! Probably some other things, too. Witches Abroad as soon as I finish this little stack I'm supposed to be working through.
