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Learning to Walk Wednesday
Dec. 9th, 2015 12:11 pmArchived from Livejournal
What I've Finished Reading
Earlier that year, when "an Indian Woman with gay Baskets and a dazzling Baby" appeared at the kitchen door, instead of locking it Emily engaged the stranger in talk, asking what the infant liked. 'To step' was the answer, whereupon the poet led the unsteady toddler on a short walk: "she leaned on Clover Walls and they fell, and dropped her -- With jargon sweeter than a Bell, she grappled Buttercups -- and they sank together."
I've mentioned finishing My Wars are Laid Away in Books already, but wanted to mention it again, for this anecdote about Emily Dickinson meeting a baby, and to say that if you like biographies with a lot of density and texture, this is a good one. ( Some words about a book about Emily Dickinson )
The English Breakfast Affair by Jennifer Montgomery ( is as delicious as a stack of scones with cream )
This is one of a series of hot-beverage-themed romances by Montgomery, all of which I bought immediately on finishing The English Breakfast Affair.
What I'm Reading Now
Titus Groan will never end, but that's all right; it never has to. Reading it is like living in Gormenghast: the corridors bend on one another and are full of fascinating rubbish, and the movement of the sun is curiously understated through the tiny vine-covered windows, and you'd barely know time was passing if it weren't for some rotting pears and the occasional baby.
But the droplets of plot are beginning to run together all the same: Steerpike has made himself an ally of the petty, stunted, and haplessly resentful sisters of the Earl of Groan, jabbing at their envy with a poker and encouraging them to grand gestures of destruction. Will this shake things up permanently? Maybe, maybe not.
I began A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 immediately after finishing Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and I think Simon Winchester's writing is suffering a little by comparison. ( Winchester is sloppily lyrical. )
Anyway, it's interesting! There are brief great moments! The contemporary accounts of earthquakes are especially good so far, and there's plenty more to come.
What I'm Going to Read Next
WHO KNOWS. I need to get my Yuletide act together last week, so maybe nothing!
What I've Finished Reading
Earlier that year, when "an Indian Woman with gay Baskets and a dazzling Baby" appeared at the kitchen door, instead of locking it Emily engaged the stranger in talk, asking what the infant liked. 'To step' was the answer, whereupon the poet led the unsteady toddler on a short walk: "she leaned on Clover Walls and they fell, and dropped her -- With jargon sweeter than a Bell, she grappled Buttercups -- and they sank together."
I've mentioned finishing My Wars are Laid Away in Books already, but wanted to mention it again, for this anecdote about Emily Dickinson meeting a baby, and to say that if you like biographies with a lot of density and texture, this is a good one. ( Some words about a book about Emily Dickinson )
The English Breakfast Affair by Jennifer Montgomery ( is as delicious as a stack of scones with cream )
This is one of a series of hot-beverage-themed romances by Montgomery, all of which I bought immediately on finishing The English Breakfast Affair.
What I'm Reading Now
Titus Groan will never end, but that's all right; it never has to. Reading it is like living in Gormenghast: the corridors bend on one another and are full of fascinating rubbish, and the movement of the sun is curiously understated through the tiny vine-covered windows, and you'd barely know time was passing if it weren't for some rotting pears and the occasional baby.
But the droplets of plot are beginning to run together all the same: Steerpike has made himself an ally of the petty, stunted, and haplessly resentful sisters of the Earl of Groan, jabbing at their envy with a poker and encouraging them to grand gestures of destruction. Will this shake things up permanently? Maybe, maybe not.
I began A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 immediately after finishing Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and I think Simon Winchester's writing is suffering a little by comparison. ( Winchester is sloppily lyrical. )
Anyway, it's interesting! There are brief great moments! The contemporary accounts of earthquakes are especially good so far, and there's plenty more to come.
What I'm Going to Read Next
WHO KNOWS. I need to get my Yuletide act together last week, so maybe nothing!
