Reading Wednesday
Jul. 8th, 2020 09:45 amRecently read
Read The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie, which was very different from the manor house (or train, cruise ship, bridge table, etc.) murder plots of most of her books, following a chilling series of seemingly unrelated murders of victims with alliterative names, linked by anonymous letters to Hercule Poirot claiming responsibility and an ABC train guide left at the scene of each crime. I did guess the twist - ( spoiler! ) - but not whodunit.
Read Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh, which I did not enjoy. It had an intriguing premise - an elderly widow living in the woods attempts to armchair-detective a murder that may or may not have actually happened - but the novel was weird and unpleasant and nothing got resolved except ( spoilers )
Read Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires, a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder (and by extension, her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane) recommended by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
evelyn_b. It was really interesting in terms of the truth of Wilder's childhood vs. the carefully-crafted version of it she depicted in her novels, and the broader historical context of her life and the release of her books and the impact they had, but reading about Wilder's complicated personal and professional relationship with her daughter felt genuinely awkward, like being invited to a dinner party by an acquaintance only to witness a blowout family argument.
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Just started Daniel Brook's The Accident of Color, which so far has focused on mixed-race communities in New Orleans and Charleston, South Carolina, before and during the Civil War.
Read The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie, which was very different from the manor house (or train, cruise ship, bridge table, etc.) murder plots of most of her books, following a chilling series of seemingly unrelated murders of victims with alliterative names, linked by anonymous letters to Hercule Poirot claiming responsibility and an ABC train guide left at the scene of each crime. I did guess the twist - ( spoiler! ) - but not whodunit.
Read Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh, which I did not enjoy. It had an intriguing premise - an elderly widow living in the woods attempts to armchair-detective a murder that may or may not have actually happened - but the novel was weird and unpleasant and nothing got resolved except ( spoilers )
Read Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires, a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder (and by extension, her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane) recommended by
evelyn_b. It was really interesting in terms of the truth of Wilder's childhood vs. the carefully-crafted version of it she depicted in her novels, and the broader historical context of her life and the release of her books and the impact they had, but reading about Wilder's complicated personal and professional relationship with her daughter felt genuinely awkward, like being invited to a dinner party by an acquaintance only to witness a blowout family argument.Currently reading
Just started Daniel Brook's The Accident of Color, which so far has focused on mixed-race communities in New Orleans and Charleston, South Carolina, before and during the Civil War.
