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What Are You Reading Wednesday
Apr. 9th, 2014 10:05 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?
Slightly to my surprise, I am devouring A.S. Byatt's Still Life. I picked it up in Birmingham, along with another of her novels, having binge-read a work of non-fiction. I thought I'd get some dense fiction to slow me down a bit, and I was convinced to give Frederica another try by the blurb on the Vintage edition. Good choice! I'm finding Frederica more likeable, in fact all of the characters more likeable, and the plot more engaging than The Virgin in the Garden.
Meanwhile, I'm ploughing through McGuire's Friendship and Community - I've actually ordered my own copy, concluding that it will be easier to transfer my many postit flags into my own book than painstakingly type up notes from the Pret-entre-bibliotheque copy I have at the moment.
I've also started Karras' Unmarriages - I've only read the intro so far but I do love her style.
What did you recently finish reading
A LOT of things, as it happens. Fun books first: I finished Slow Train to Switzerland, binge-read Shiri Eisner's Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, and read my partner's battered copy of The Magic Pudding.
Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years - and a World of Change Apart by Diccon Bewes
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
( ERMAGERD IT FULL OF FACTOIDS )
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Eisner
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
( Doesn't everyone binge-read queer theory on planes? )
The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
( cut-and-come again )
Academically, I finished with Schulenberg's Forgetful of their Sex - very dense, useful in places, full of cool stories about early saints. Zipped through Rosemary Rader's Breaking Boundaries, which is that curious thing, a work of 80s Christian feminist history. Much of its good bits are now superceded by McGuire and Schulenberg, and her desire to prove that something inherent in Christianity allowed a NEW! UNIQUE! variety of interaction between the sexes makes me inherantly suspicious. Also finished with Dyas (ed), Approaching Medieval Mystic and Anchoritic Texts, which was a really interesting combination of scholarship, overview, and teaching methodology.
Read Aelred's Spiritual Friendship, concluded he's a sweetie and I'd rather be friends with him than with Cicero. Read the Friar's Tale, am most amused by the Devil's antics therein.
What do you think you'll read next?
I've been desultorily poking at 'Best Australian Poems 2013', hopefully soon something in that will turn out to be engaging. I've got an Alice Munro collection out of the uni library, might start on that when I'm done with Byatt for the time being.
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
What are you currently reading?
Slightly to my surprise, I am devouring A.S. Byatt's Still Life. I picked it up in Birmingham, along with another of her novels, having binge-read a work of non-fiction. I thought I'd get some dense fiction to slow me down a bit, and I was convinced to give Frederica another try by the blurb on the Vintage edition. Good choice! I'm finding Frederica more likeable, in fact all of the characters more likeable, and the plot more engaging than The Virgin in the Garden.
Meanwhile, I'm ploughing through McGuire's Friendship and Community - I've actually ordered my own copy, concluding that it will be easier to transfer my many postit flags into my own book than painstakingly type up notes from the Pret-entre-bibliotheque copy I have at the moment.
I've also started Karras' Unmarriages - I've only read the intro so far but I do love her style.
What did you recently finish reading
A LOT of things, as it happens. Fun books first: I finished Slow Train to Switzerland, binge-read Shiri Eisner's Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, and read my partner's battered copy of The Magic Pudding.
Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years - and a World of Change Apart by Diccon BewesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
( ERMAGERD IT FULL OF FACTOIDS )
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri EisnerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
( Doesn't everyone binge-read queer theory on planes? )
The Magic Pudding by Norman LindsayMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
( cut-and-come again )
Academically, I finished with Schulenberg's Forgetful of their Sex - very dense, useful in places, full of cool stories about early saints. Zipped through Rosemary Rader's Breaking Boundaries, which is that curious thing, a work of 80s Christian feminist history. Much of its good bits are now superceded by McGuire and Schulenberg, and her desire to prove that something inherent in Christianity allowed a NEW! UNIQUE! variety of interaction between the sexes makes me inherantly suspicious. Also finished with Dyas (ed), Approaching Medieval Mystic and Anchoritic Texts, which was a really interesting combination of scholarship, overview, and teaching methodology.
Read Aelred's Spiritual Friendship, concluded he's a sweetie and I'd rather be friends with him than with Cicero. Read the Friar's Tale, am most amused by the Devil's antics therein.
What do you think you'll read next?
I've been desultorily poking at 'Best Australian Poems 2013', hopefully soon something in that will turn out to be engaging. I've got an Alice Munro collection out of the uni library, might start on that when I'm done with Byatt for the time being.