Reading not Wednesday, 25/07
Jul. 25th, 2019 07:43 pmRecently read: The cut out girl by Bart van Es. (c) 2018 Bart van Es; Pub Penguin Books 2019; ISBN 978-0-241-97872-6
My parents read The cut out girl for their Jewish book club, and were impressed and lent me their copy, which I read on my flight out to Sweden. It's well written and explores complex and tragic history sensitively.
Nine little goslings by Susan Coolidge. First published 1875.
Nine little goslings I read on the return flight, when I was travelling to the hospital where my father-in-law was seriously ill, so not surprisingly I was not in mood for serious and horrifying books. I had downloaded the Gutenberg version to my e-reader when![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ghoti_mhic_uait pointed out to me that there were sequels after the first three Katy books. It's definitely minor Coolidge, it tends towards the overly sentimental.
( detailed review of _The cut out girl_; discusses Holocaust details including child rape )
( detailed review of _Nine little goslings_ )
Currently reading: A deeper season by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
lightgetsin and sahiya.
A deeper season is part of a long series of an AU of Bujold's Vorkosigan series, diverging after Memory because it has Gregor in love with Miles. I'd actually read it before but had forgotten where I was up to in the series. It's pretty unusual for me to read a romance that reminds me of my own relationships, but this one does even though I don't totally buy Miles/Gregor in canon.
Rereading a very well-written Bujold fanfic was very soothing during the second part of the difficult journey home, but I think I might not finish it, I might skip to the sequel, What passing bells, now I realize I have already read aDS.
Up next: If not What passing bells then probably The storm keeper's island by Catherine Doyle, which I have borrowed from Judith.
My parents read The cut out girl for their Jewish book club, and were impressed and lent me their copy, which I read on my flight out to Sweden. It's well written and explores complex and tragic history sensitively.
Nine little goslings I read on the return flight, when I was travelling to the hospital where my father-in-law was seriously ill, so not surprisingly I was not in mood for serious and horrifying books. I had downloaded the Gutenberg version to my e-reader when
ghoti_mhic_uait pointed out to me that there were sequels after the first three Katy books. It's definitely minor Coolidge, it tends towards the overly sentimental.( detailed review of _The cut out girl_; discusses Holocaust details including child rape )
( detailed review of _Nine little goslings_ )
Currently reading: A deeper season by
A deeper season is part of a long series of an AU of Bujold's Vorkosigan series, diverging after Memory because it has Gregor in love with Miles. I'd actually read it before but had forgotten where I was up to in the series. It's pretty unusual for me to read a romance that reminds me of my own relationships, but this one does even though I don't totally buy Miles/Gregor in canon.
Rereading a very well-written Bujold fanfic was very soothing during the second part of the difficult journey home, but I think I might not finish it, I might skip to the sequel, What passing bells, now I realize I have already read aDS.
Up next: If not What passing bells then probably The storm keeper's island by Catherine Doyle, which I have borrowed from Judith.
