
My latest while-away-the-winter-blahs. You have to understand these intricate weaves I manage to do with the toy rigid heddle loom are like the complicated pieces Schroeder can play on his toy piano where the black keys are just painted on.

My latest while-away-the-winter-blahs. You have to understand these intricate weaves I manage to do with the toy rigid heddle loom are like the complicated pieces Schroeder can play on his toy piano where the black keys are just painted on.
God, I am so depressed.
by Cass R. Sunstein
Not what I thought it would be…. It seemed mostly about nudges. He’s covered nudges elsewhere.

by Willa Cather
A little tragedy about a gay-hearted young woman in the early 20th century Great Plains. It really brought a feel for the times and the location. I liked it as a story; it kept me reading; though sometimes it risked getting a little too talky-feely. And I wish things could have gone better for Lucy.
Part of it reminded me of THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin, particularly this: “Since then she had changed so much in her thoughts, in her ways, even in her looks, that she might wonder she knew herself – except that the changes were all in the direction of becoming more and more herself.”
Why she had to lie to her old beau, implying something had happened that hadn’t – and really why she couldn’t marry him in the first place: “She had tried to tell him the truth about a feeling; but a feeling meant nothing to him, he had to be clubbed by a situation.” I love that, “clubbed by a situation.”

Another book that happens to match my decor.
by Madeleine L’Engle
Actually had never read this. It was a little wacky. But it all kind of made sense and had a good ending.
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by Anne Bronte
I wish the middle had been much, much shorter. Very repetitive, and the protagonists were each over-the-top good or over-the-top bad. I was drawn in by the beginning section; it felt like it was going to be a slightly humorous family light comic novel. Bait & switch! It’s PAMELA/CLARISSA all over again. But I’d try another Bronte.

The book I’m reading has a picture with a beautiful bouquet of tulips on the table, and so do I!