What Are You Reading Wednesday

[highlyeccentric]

What Are You Reading 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? I'm *almost* finished 'Slow Train to Switzerland' and am loving it to pieces - you'll have to wait until next fortnight to hear why, though. Academically, I'm all over the place, but my Chaucer bookmark is in the Man of Law's Tale right now, which is fun. I'm reading bits of 'Approaching Medieval Mystic and Anchoritic Texts', which is that rare thing, a book with both anayltical essays and essays on *how to teach* the material.

What did you recently finish reading?

I gave up on Phyllis Ann Kerr's 'The Idyll's of the Queen' after about two chapters. The prose is sludgy, the action replicates Malory to a tedious degree, and Guinevere barely figures at all - it's about Kay's obsession with her, not about Guinevere. Worse job of female character than the Vulgate text or Chretien; therefore Amy is not interested.

leareth loaned me the Hyperbole and A Half book, and lo, it was good. I don't feel compelled to review it, because, well, it's like the blog only in book format.

What do you think you'll read next?

As soon as I finish Slow Train, I'm starting in on Eisner's 'Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution'.

Comments

[realpestilence]

I can see why you wouldn't like Idylls of the Queen, if you're reading it as a Guinevere story. I mainly liked it because I enjoyed Kay's sharp tongue and practicality, and his interaction with Mordred. But I'll confess to skipping pages, here and there.