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What I have been reading
I haven’t read much lately, mostly because the cold gave me a very bad headache.
A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King. I’ve read this book several times, not for the murder mystery, but for the characters. I enjoy reading about the characters at Tyler’s Road, I love the description of artistry, and Vaun herself, and I love the growing friendship between detectives Kate Martinelli and Al Hawkins. And the murder mystery is good too; several little girls are found murdered, eerily mimicking an old murder, and the convicted murderess is living nearby...
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery. The only Montgomery books translated to Swedish was the one’s about Anne and Emily, so I’ve never read anything else. This one seemed geared to an older audience, and I wish I had read it in my teens- i would have loved it wildly then. But I liked it now too. Plot-wise it was easy to predict what would happen, but I liked Valancy, and I very much enjoyed her transformation from bullied old maid to radiantly happy. If you haven’t read it, it’s about a young woman who is terribly bullied and down-trodden by her pretty awful family. But when she learns she has only a year left to live, she stops feeling afraid and decides to actually live the time she has left. Very enjoyable read with shades of Jane Eyre and Persuasion. Also,, even if Barney Snaith is idealised, he is much more of a real person than ever Teddy Kent and Gilbert Blythe.
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery. While reading The Blue Castle it struck me i haven’t re-read the Anne-books since my teens, and only in the Swedish translation. I was always much more an Emily-girl, and those books I re-read regularly. It was fun to read Anne of Green Gables again, but it was even clearer to me now why I always preferred Emily. Anne’s mood swings and endless chatter doesn’t really grip me, and Diana is a much more bland best friend than Ilse Burnley, and I have never liked Gilbert Blythe. (Sorry). But even so, I enjoyed reading it again, and I think I’m going to re-read the whole series.
Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions by Joyce & River Higginbotham, which I will talk about elsewhere.
A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King. I’ve read this book several times, not for the murder mystery, but for the characters. I enjoy reading about the characters at Tyler’s Road, I love the description of artistry, and Vaun herself, and I love the growing friendship between detectives Kate Martinelli and Al Hawkins. And the murder mystery is good too; several little girls are found murdered, eerily mimicking an old murder, and the convicted murderess is living nearby...
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery. The only Montgomery books translated to Swedish was the one’s about Anne and Emily, so I’ve never read anything else. This one seemed geared to an older audience, and I wish I had read it in my teens- i would have loved it wildly then. But I liked it now too. Plot-wise it was easy to predict what would happen, but I liked Valancy, and I very much enjoyed her transformation from bullied old maid to radiantly happy. If you haven’t read it, it’s about a young woman who is terribly bullied and down-trodden by her pretty awful family. But when she learns she has only a year left to live, she stops feeling afraid and decides to actually live the time she has left. Very enjoyable read with shades of Jane Eyre and Persuasion. Also,, even if Barney Snaith is idealised, he is much more of a real person than ever Teddy Kent and Gilbert Blythe.
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery. While reading The Blue Castle it struck me i haven’t re-read the Anne-books since my teens, and only in the Swedish translation. I was always much more an Emily-girl, and those books I re-read regularly. It was fun to read Anne of Green Gables again, but it was even clearer to me now why I always preferred Emily. Anne’s mood swings and endless chatter doesn’t really grip me, and Diana is a much more bland best friend than Ilse Burnley, and I have never liked Gilbert Blythe. (Sorry). But even so, I enjoyed reading it again, and I think I’m going to re-read the whole series.
Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions by Joyce & River Higginbotham, which I will talk about elsewhere.
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