"The winter lay like sheep about/ The ragged pastures mullein gray;/ The April sun shone in and out"

[larryhammer]

Read the Wednesday! Even if it's a little late! Because I have lately been reading, a little:

The Compass Rose by Gail Dayton, a reread -- I have ~50 pages to go, intending to do the whole trilogy at once. For values of "at once" that include "in 15-minute snatches every other night."

The Mister Rogers Parenting Book by Fred Rogers -- This is not the only parenting advice book I've read, of course, but the first I've wanted to mention: humane counsel that rings True in almost everything (the chapters on disabilities and adoption are problematic, though the problems are more from omission than by commission). Overall, many good reminders with nuggets of useful new advice. Why just getting to reading it now? Because I only just learned about it, and anyway its focus is 3-6 year olds.

But the bulk of my reading has been more of Encyclopedia Britannica 11e. (1911), which easily chunks into piecemeal times -- am ~½ through volume 11 (Franciscans to Gibson) after a digression into articles on Dutch history. The number of articles that bury the lede by assuming you already know what the subject of an article is, and are only there for more details, bemuses me.

Plus, sometimes, a little poetry here and there.

---L.

Subject quote from "The Captain’s Drum," Benjamin Franklin Taylor.

Comments

[oracne.livejournal.com]

When I re-read The Compass Rose, I found it even more frustrating than the first time through. It desperately shies away from the erotic content I think it actually requires.

[larryhammer]

Very much so -- you can watch the plot scaffolding being erected (so to speak) to filter out some needed encounters, while others (such as the curious lack of interest in f/f) are pointed away from as if that will make the reader not notice the problem.

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

For values of "at once" that include "in 15-minute snatches every other night."

Yeah, if not for my change in commute and a previously piled-up queue, I would've stopped posting about books on Wednesdays some time ago.