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What I've Just Finished Reading:
Nothing! Except that osprey_archer asked about it, so I ended up reading all of Kilmeny of the Orchard. It's an odd book and I think most L. M. Montgomery fans (including me) find it unappealing. The POV character is a smug male schoolteacher from the mainland, and the "heroine" is his dream-girl -- "perfectly" beautiful, eerily young, intelligent without confidence, mute until love and fear compel her to speak. It's interesting as an example of early 20th-century magazine fiction and the sort of thing Anne's Story Club might have written, but deeply disappointing if you're hoping for more of the L.M.M. formula.
What I'm Reading Now
I've started a whole mess of things at once, including The Group by Mary McCarthy (excellent so far) and The Golden Road, which was my least favorite non-Kilmeny L.M.M. novel for a while. It also has a smug male POV guy, but he's so much more likable than Kilmeny's Eric that I can't hold it against him.
No Place Like Home: Diaries and Letters of Nova Scotia Women 1771-1938 is a book I've had for a while now, but have never read straight through. I read the first diary in the collection -- a delightful, funny twelve-year-old -- and then read in the afterword that she died at nineteen.
Titus Groan is beautifully strange and crowded and pungent. In its crowdedness it reminds me a little of The Once and Future King, though the tone is pretty different -- earthier and more tangled, maybe? We've just learned that the new heir to all this crumbling medieval mummery, who has just been born, is both UNUSUALLY HIDEOUS and has OMINOUS VIOLET EYES. What can it mean? Trouble, I suspect.
What I Plan to Read Next
I always predict wrong, so I'm not going to predict this time. Except for Yuletide research/review stuff; that's guaranteed.
What I've Just Finished Reading:
Nothing! Except that osprey_archer asked about it, so I ended up reading all of Kilmeny of the Orchard. It's an odd book and I think most L. M. Montgomery fans (including me) find it unappealing. The POV character is a smug male schoolteacher from the mainland, and the "heroine" is his dream-girl -- "perfectly" beautiful, eerily young, intelligent without confidence, mute until love and fear compel her to speak. It's interesting as an example of early 20th-century magazine fiction and the sort of thing Anne's Story Club might have written, but deeply disappointing if you're hoping for more of the L.M.M. formula.
What I'm Reading Now
I've started a whole mess of things at once, including The Group by Mary McCarthy (excellent so far) and The Golden Road, which was my least favorite non-Kilmeny L.M.M. novel for a while. It also has a smug male POV guy, but he's so much more likable than Kilmeny's Eric that I can't hold it against him.
No Place Like Home: Diaries and Letters of Nova Scotia Women 1771-1938 is a book I've had for a while now, but have never read straight through. I read the first diary in the collection -- a delightful, funny twelve-year-old -- and then read in the afterword that she died at nineteen.
Titus Groan is beautifully strange and crowded and pungent. In its crowdedness it reminds me a little of The Once and Future King, though the tone is pretty different -- earthier and more tangled, maybe? We've just learned that the new heir to all this crumbling medieval mummery, who has just been born, is both UNUSUALLY HIDEOUS and has OMINOUS VIOLET EYES. What can it mean? Trouble, I suspect.
What I Plan to Read Next
I always predict wrong, so I'm not going to predict this time. Except for Yuletide research/review stuff; that's guaranteed.
