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!
Tytania 