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Suddenly reading progress!
Mar. 12th, 2014 11:36 amWhat 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?
Most excitingly, 'Slow Train to Switzerland' by Diccon Bewes, a British expat living in Bern. He got hold of an old printed copy of an 1863 journal by 'Miss Jemima', a member of Thomas Cook's first guided expedition to Switzerland. Bewes and his mother set off to replicate the route using modern rail transport, and at each stop he tells you random tidbits about rail history, the history of tourism, and about 19th century Europe. It's GREAT. I'm suffering a bit from living somewhere where I don't know the recent or distant past (aside from 'Hey Calvinism!' I know little about medieval or early modern Geneva).
I've started Phyllis Ann Kerr's 'The Idylls of the Queen' and it's boring me. Academically, I'm ploughing through out-of-order selections from Schulenberg's 'Forgetful of Their Sex'. So many more things about prohibitions to prevent monastic lesbianism than I knew about!
What did you recently finish reading?
I finished with Millet & Wogan-Brown, 'Middle English Prose for Women', and am mostly irritated that it had so few texts in it, so now I have to go back to the Worst Edition Ever for the rest of the Katherine Group. I also trundled through Cicero's 'On Friendship' (conculsion: Laelius is a pompous ass and I wouldn't be friends with him if Cicero paid me).
Cookery: I've pored over 'A Girl Called Jack', not just because Jack Monroe is really cute, but I haven't made anything from it yet.
Now, proper reviews:
Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand Stories ed. Vincent O'Sullivan - ( Earlier work more my thing than later work )
Dear John, I love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women ed. Candace Walsh and Laura André - ( It's been a while since I read a really good book about or for queer ladies )
What do you think you'll read next? For funsies, I have laid hands on 'The queer art of failure', but what I'm really hankering for is Eisner's 'Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution'. I can't get hold of it here, so have ordered a copy online. For work... Anselm or Augustine or, um, the other A-name chappy.
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
What are you currently reading?
Most excitingly, 'Slow Train to Switzerland' by Diccon Bewes, a British expat living in Bern. He got hold of an old printed copy of an 1863 journal by 'Miss Jemima', a member of Thomas Cook's first guided expedition to Switzerland. Bewes and his mother set off to replicate the route using modern rail transport, and at each stop he tells you random tidbits about rail history, the history of tourism, and about 19th century Europe. It's GREAT. I'm suffering a bit from living somewhere where I don't know the recent or distant past (aside from 'Hey Calvinism!' I know little about medieval or early modern Geneva).
I've started Phyllis Ann Kerr's 'The Idylls of the Queen' and it's boring me. Academically, I'm ploughing through out-of-order selections from Schulenberg's 'Forgetful of Their Sex'. So many more things about prohibitions to prevent monastic lesbianism than I knew about!
What did you recently finish reading?
I finished with Millet & Wogan-Brown, 'Middle English Prose for Women', and am mostly irritated that it had so few texts in it, so now I have to go back to the Worst Edition Ever for the rest of the Katherine Group. I also trundled through Cicero's 'On Friendship' (conculsion: Laelius is a pompous ass and I wouldn't be friends with him if Cicero paid me).
Cookery: I've pored over 'A Girl Called Jack', not just because Jack Monroe is really cute, but I haven't made anything from it yet.
Now, proper reviews:
Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand Stories ed. Vincent O'Sullivan - ( Earlier work more my thing than later work )
Dear John, I love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women ed. Candace Walsh and Laura André - ( It's been a while since I read a really good book about or for queer ladies )
What do you think you'll read next? For funsies, I have laid hands on 'The queer art of failure', but what I'm really hankering for is Eisner's 'Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution'. I can't get hold of it here, so have ordered a copy online. For work... Anselm or Augustine or, um, the other A-name chappy.