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larryhammerIt is a Wednesday, and I am actually still reading things -- mostly on my phone these days. The three most recent things poked at, according to the Kobo app, are:
Poems of Places volume 28 -- still. Though I am almost done with the Southern States. The poems of Washington, DC, were especially resonant, so Longfellow clearly wasn't utterly failing as an editor -- but the American Civil War, which the principle obsession of a volume covering the recently former Confederacy, is not mine at the moment. After this, one more volume to go: the Western States, meaning everything from Ohio to the Pacific.
A Japanese Guide to Japanese Grammar by Tae Kim.
Madan no Ou to Vanadis volume 10, which supposedly wraps up the second arc -- resolving the amnesia plot, one hopes. So far it bounces along nicely.
The most recently finished book was The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, in which a mystery-novel detective laid up by injury investigates by proxy the death of the Princes in the Tower and concludes Richard III didn't have them killed, but rather Henry VII. Before that was Kilmeny of the Orchard by L. M. Montgomery, which demonstrates that many of the tropes that go into a Manic Pixie Dream Girl have been around for quite a while.
---L.
Subject quote from "C.S. Lewis Song," Brooke Fraser (adapting C.S. Lewis).
Poems of Places volume 28 -- still. Though I am almost done with the Southern States. The poems of Washington, DC, were especially resonant, so Longfellow clearly wasn't utterly failing as an editor -- but the American Civil War, which the principle obsession of a volume covering the recently former Confederacy, is not mine at the moment. After this, one more volume to go: the Western States, meaning everything from Ohio to the Pacific.
A Japanese Guide to Japanese Grammar by Tae Kim.
Madan no Ou to Vanadis volume 10, which supposedly wraps up the second arc -- resolving the amnesia plot, one hopes. So far it bounces along nicely.
The most recently finished book was The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, in which a mystery-novel detective laid up by injury investigates by proxy the death of the Princes in the Tower and concludes Richard III didn't have them killed, but rather Henry VII. Before that was Kilmeny of the Orchard by L. M. Montgomery, which demonstrates that many of the tropes that go into a Manic Pixie Dream Girl have been around for quite a while.
---L.
Subject quote from "C.S. Lewis Song," Brooke Fraser (adapting C.S. Lewis).
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Date: 21 January 2015 06:53 pm (UTC)I also liked the different takes on how history is written, read, and remembered -- all those varieties of history books.
---L.