(I always think a post needs a photo - if Grandma and I had really been on a voyage on the Queen Mary in 1971, we would have been on the deck reading - I'm sure!)
It seems to be a slow summer - reading-wise anyway. I gave up on Adam Bede - after I saw the BBC production and realized how true to the book it was - couldn't bring myself to keep plowing through the extensive prose that is the hallmark of much Victorian writing! (The BBC production was excellent, btw!)
But I did delve into Middlemarch - and it is not such slow reading - but it's easy to put down too - or fall asleep over! But I plan to finish it - it's not a library copy, so I can take all summer.
On the Newbery front, I'm readng And Now Miguel - and it is pretty good. I like the way it sounds - a Hispanic boy in turn of the century New Mexico - he has really caught the flavor.
So that's where I stand now - maybe I read so much this last spring, that I am "read out" or something.
But I do have several Hornblower converts under my belt!
But I did delve into Middlemarch - and it is not such slow reading - but it's easy to put down too - or fall asleep over! But I plan to finish it - it's not a library copy, so I can take all summer.
On the Newbery front, I'm readng And Now Miguel - and it is pretty good. I like the way it sounds - a Hispanic boy in turn of the century New Mexico - he has really caught the flavor.
So that's where I stand now - maybe I read so much this last spring, that I am "read out" or something.
But I do have several Hornblower converts under my belt!
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