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highlyeccentricWhat Are You Reading (Not On A) Wednesday:
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
What are you currently reading?
This just never changes, does it? I'm plodding through Of Arthour and Merlin and still enjoying Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
What did you recently finish reading?
Now this bit changes! I skipped quickly through a bunch of academic reading in the past fortnight, of which Sarah Salih's Versions of Virginity, Felicity Riddy's chapter in the Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance, and the intro chapter to The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance ed Rider and Friedman were the stand-out useful items.
I've been having fun with primary sources for teaching prep. Margery Kempe, man. So much drama! The Hali Meithad, super grammatically dense. And best of all, The Wright's Chaste Wife, a 15th c. ballad/fabliaux. Jealous husband sets his wife up in a secure house with a trapdoor to drop any suitors who come to her into a cellar. Wife collects jewels and gifts from various suitors, drops them in the cellar, humiliates them, and trains them to spin for her. Eventually the lord's wife has to come fetch her errant husband, and the two ladies have a brief bonding moment over the stupidity of men and how they have more important things to be doing than dealing with them.
I have also given up on Ulysses. No more Ulysses for me.
Some pretty awesome podcasted short stories: Ghost Days by Ken Liu, Tik Tok and the Nome King by L. Frank Baum.
What do you think you'll read next?
I doubt I'll finish anything non-academic in the next fortnight, but next on my academic lists are Caxton's Knight of the Tour Laundry (citations needed) and a book on Loathly Lady tales. I want to get on to the Katherine Group saints lives, too. Rumour has it that that version of Margaret is 'anxious about spiritual friendship' and I want to know why.
I have found an audiobook recording of (tranlasted) Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen. It sounds pretty freakin' awesome albeit almost utterly unrelated to its recent Disney offspring.
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
What are you currently reading?
This just never changes, does it? I'm plodding through Of Arthour and Merlin and still enjoying Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
What did you recently finish reading?
Now this bit changes! I skipped quickly through a bunch of academic reading in the past fortnight, of which Sarah Salih's Versions of Virginity, Felicity Riddy's chapter in the Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance, and the intro chapter to The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance ed Rider and Friedman were the stand-out useful items.
I've been having fun with primary sources for teaching prep. Margery Kempe, man. So much drama! The Hali Meithad, super grammatically dense. And best of all, The Wright's Chaste Wife, a 15th c. ballad/fabliaux. Jealous husband sets his wife up in a secure house with a trapdoor to drop any suitors who come to her into a cellar. Wife collects jewels and gifts from various suitors, drops them in the cellar, humiliates them, and trains them to spin for her. Eventually the lord's wife has to come fetch her errant husband, and the two ladies have a brief bonding moment over the stupidity of men and how they have more important things to be doing than dealing with them.
I have also given up on Ulysses. No more Ulysses for me.
Some pretty awesome podcasted short stories: Ghost Days by Ken Liu, Tik Tok and the Nome King by L. Frank Baum.
What do you think you'll read next?
I doubt I'll finish anything non-academic in the next fortnight, but next on my academic lists are Caxton's Knight of the Tour Laundry (citations needed) and a book on Loathly Lady tales. I want to get on to the Katherine Group saints lives, too. Rumour has it that that version of Margaret is 'anxious about spiritual friendship' and I want to know why.
I have found an audiobook recording of (tranlasted) Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen. It sounds pretty freakin' awesome albeit almost utterly unrelated to its recent Disney offspring.
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Date: 2014-03-15 02:09 pm (UTC)I recently read a book about the Grimm brothers and their work to collect their stories. Very interesting, all about how the Napoleonic wars impacted them, and how women were their main sources-I thought I posted about it under my 50bookchallenge tag but can't find it right now. I'll look for it and give you the title later. I think you'd find it interesting.