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larryhammerI hope all of you had a safe and happy Passover.
What I've recently finished since my last post:
The Unknown Ajax and The Toll-Gate by Georgette Heyer, both comfort rereads. The first is the one with a sold-out Major of the Fusiliers raised by Yorkshire mill-owner who is suddenly the heir of a Kentish baron and, upon arrival for inspection, decides to live down to his new family's expectations because he is a Troll Hero; distinguishing plot elements include belligerent sexual tension with a tall heroine, an elderly family patriarch with failing finances, dialect writing, secret passages, and smugglers. The second is the one with a sold-out Captain of the Hussars who, on his way through Derbyshire to a friend's hunting lodge, decides to take over running a turnpike's empty toll-booth because he is, apparently, still fifteen; distinguishing plot elements include mutual love at first sight with a tall heroine, an elderly family patriarch with failing finances, dialect writing, secret caverns, and highwaymen. Despite these features, they are in fact distinguishable -- mainly by how the climax of Ajax is Heyer's best extended comic sequence outside of, arguably, The Grand Sophy.
Also comfort reread: a couple volumes of Yotsuba&!, picked up more or less at random.
Cornwall in Poetry ed. by Peter Redgrove, another from the Endicott West library sale. Slender but tasty, with plenty of moderns: aside from Thomas Hardy and a Victorian, almost all the poets were alive when it was published in 1982.
What I'm reading now:
The World's Best Poetry ed. Bliss Carmen, volume V, though not very quickly, as a run of tediously sentimental verses about flowers sent me skittering back to Poems of Places, where I've bounded through almost all of volume III (England O-T). I gather the Thames is important to the English national consciousness (almost as important as London, by thebody poem count). Not that I couldn't figure this from Poly-Olbion.
What I might read next:
Possibly Heyer's Sylvester (prompted by this).
---L.
What I've recently finished since my last post:
The Unknown Ajax and The Toll-Gate by Georgette Heyer, both comfort rereads. The first is the one with a sold-out Major of the Fusiliers raised by Yorkshire mill-owner who is suddenly the heir of a Kentish baron and, upon arrival for inspection, decides to live down to his new family's expectations because he is a Troll Hero; distinguishing plot elements include belligerent sexual tension with a tall heroine, an elderly family patriarch with failing finances, dialect writing, secret passages, and smugglers. The second is the one with a sold-out Captain of the Hussars who, on his way through Derbyshire to a friend's hunting lodge, decides to take over running a turnpike's empty toll-booth because he is, apparently, still fifteen; distinguishing plot elements include mutual love at first sight with a tall heroine, an elderly family patriarch with failing finances, dialect writing, secret caverns, and highwaymen. Despite these features, they are in fact distinguishable -- mainly by how the climax of Ajax is Heyer's best extended comic sequence outside of, arguably, The Grand Sophy.
Also comfort reread: a couple volumes of Yotsuba&!, picked up more or less at random.
Cornwall in Poetry ed. by Peter Redgrove, another from the Endicott West library sale. Slender but tasty, with plenty of moderns: aside from Thomas Hardy and a Victorian, almost all the poets were alive when it was published in 1982.
What I'm reading now:
The World's Best Poetry ed. Bliss Carmen, volume V, though not very quickly, as a run of tediously sentimental verses about flowers sent me skittering back to Poems of Places, where I've bounded through almost all of volume III (England O-T). I gather the Thames is important to the English national consciousness (almost as important as London, by the
What I might read next:
Possibly Heyer's Sylvester (prompted by this).
---L.
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Date: 17 April 2014 05:48 pm (UTC)I've only just started reading Heyer - I bounced off her one of her more irritatingly perky heroines once in my youth and rather discounted her after that - but I enjoyed Cotillion and The Nonesuch last year.
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Date: 17 April 2014 06:02 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 18 April 2014 05:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 18 April 2014 02:45 pm (UTC)---L.