What Am I Reading Wednesday
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scripsiWhat I am reading now: Still on Det rena landet.
What I have finished reading: Not much, really. Too much to do, too little sleep and too many allergies. But I picked up and re-read one of my comfort books. Do you have them? Books that you return to when you feel frazzled? I have several, but this one is my oldest; Elizabeth of the Garrett Theatre by Gwendoline Courtney. It was first published in 1948 and have also been published as Stepmother and Those Verney Girls. My parents kept a shelf with books from their childhood and I found this book here when I was nine and has re-read it so many times since then. (I also read Biggles, Westerns, books about horses and girl books by now forgotten Swedish authors.)
It’s a story about four sisters, aged between nine and seventeen who suddenly finds themselves with an unwanted stepmother. They decide on the spot that she must be horrible and do their best to be horrible toward her. They are also all mad about theatre. Naturally Nan, the stepmother is actually a very nice person and eventually she wins them over.
It’s a very funny book and the sisters are all very different characters; shy Alison, rebellious Elizabeth, solid Susan and Georgie who had an unfortunate knack of remembering what everyone else rather she forgot. Mostly it is about Alison and Elizabeth and a very famous actor called Nigel and the book actually have some really good pointers about individual needs and the importance to find the place in life where you belong, regardless of what that place actually is. But it’s hilarious at times, especially if Georgie is around to tell people exactly what her sisters says about them when they are not around.
And it’s cozy; Nan is an excellent cook and know the importance of a nice home and good clothes and to make you feel good. And you do when you read it and you will probably also want some fresh scones and tea while you do it.
And I have read Out of the Aeons by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald. Another one I hadn’t read before, and actually quite good. A frightening mummy is found on an unknown island and broiught to a small museum. Eventually the narrator learns of an ancient legend about a wrathful god who petrifies those who looks at him, though the brain remain living...
What I will be reading next Don’t know, apart from another Lovecraft short story; The Pictures In the House.
What I have finished reading: Not much, really. Too much to do, too little sleep and too many allergies. But I picked up and re-read one of my comfort books. Do you have them? Books that you return to when you feel frazzled? I have several, but this one is my oldest; Elizabeth of the Garrett Theatre by Gwendoline Courtney. It was first published in 1948 and have also been published as Stepmother and Those Verney Girls. My parents kept a shelf with books from their childhood and I found this book here when I was nine and has re-read it so many times since then. (I also read Biggles, Westerns, books about horses and girl books by now forgotten Swedish authors.)
It’s a story about four sisters, aged between nine and seventeen who suddenly finds themselves with an unwanted stepmother. They decide on the spot that she must be horrible and do their best to be horrible toward her. They are also all mad about theatre. Naturally Nan, the stepmother is actually a very nice person and eventually she wins them over.
It’s a very funny book and the sisters are all very different characters; shy Alison, rebellious Elizabeth, solid Susan and Georgie who had an unfortunate knack of remembering what everyone else rather she forgot. Mostly it is about Alison and Elizabeth and a very famous actor called Nigel and the book actually have some really good pointers about individual needs and the importance to find the place in life where you belong, regardless of what that place actually is. But it’s hilarious at times, especially if Georgie is around to tell people exactly what her sisters says about them when they are not around.
And it’s cozy; Nan is an excellent cook and know the importance of a nice home and good clothes and to make you feel good. And you do when you read it and you will probably also want some fresh scones and tea while you do it.
And I have read Out of the Aeons by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald. Another one I hadn’t read before, and actually quite good. A frightening mummy is found on an unknown island and broiught to a small museum. Eventually the narrator learns of an ancient legend about a wrathful god who petrifies those who looks at him, though the brain remain living...
What I will be reading next Don’t know, apart from another Lovecraft short story; The Pictures In the House.
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Date: 2015-05-07 01:08 am (UTC)Now I want tea, lol!!
*HUGS*
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Date: 2015-05-07 03:44 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2015-05-07 04:17 pm (UTC)(My comfort reading of choice is a very similar thing, really - Elinor M. Brent-Dyer's Chalet School series. And sometimes Georgette Heyer, or PG Wodehouse, but EMBD is absolutely the one when I want the reading equivalent of a cosy blanket.)
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Date: 2015-05-08 01:40 pm (UTC)Diana Wynne Jones is high on my comfort-read, especially Deep Secret. And Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign and any Moomin book. :)
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Date: 2015-05-12 08:26 pm (UTC)