Wednesday reading

[castiron]

Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede. Still one of my favorite books. I love how Godden uses omniscient to make what's almost a character of Brede as a whole; the only places where you get inside the heads of outside-Brede people are in the prologue and the envoi. On this reading, I picked up more of the hints that Dame Catherine was the right person to be elected to follow Abbess Hester.

Anna_Wing, Conditional Release. A Tolkien AU fanfic in which the Valar choose a slightly different way to handle Melkor. Humorous, with occasional sections that send chills up my spine.

On the go:

Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport. Litfic; the life of an Ohio housewife. I suspect I'm not going to finish this one before it's due because I don't have the brainspace for 900 pages of stream-of-consciousness, but so far it's quite interesting. (Reading this book is like finding out someone's brain is running just like mine, just with different topics.)

Dorothy Sayers, Mind of the Maker. Nth reread.

The Bone reread is up to Rock Jaw.

Comments

[melita66]

Hi, I'm here via skygiants reading list. Is the Bone reread public? And can you give me the link? Thank you!

[castiron]

It's offline -- just me and one of my kids doing a chapter a day.

That said, I would be up for hosting a Bone reread if anyone's interested!

[melita66]

I see! I read a issue (chapter? in the graphic novel version) or two to my twins about a year or so ago. They're 7 now. One picked up the first GN a few weeks ago and read the first few issues on his own. Hmmm, maybe you should pitch it to Tor.com!

[antisoppist]

I am just here to say In this House of Brede is one of my favourite books as well. Though there was a good few years when the children were small when I suddenly had to skip one bit. I can cope again now.

[castiron]

I still have to skim that part even now that Youngest is school-age.

My list of poor life choices includes reading Dunnett's Pawn in Frankincense when Oldest was about the children's age. Like most of my family, Oldest was extremely blond as a young child. Bad, bad timing to read that book.