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Reading Wednesday
Nov. 4th, 2020 07:59 amRecently read
- Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One, a darkly funny (and, by the end, just plain dark) novella satirizing 1940s Hollywood in general and Herbert Eaton's Forest Lawn Memorial Parks in particular.
- Edna Ferber's So Big, a 1924 novel about a gambler's daughter who becomes a farmer's wife, a farmer's son who becomes a sculptor and another who becomes a big-shot financier, and Chicago in the 1900s-10s. I really liked it! My one complaint is that the ending felt rather abrupt— it worked as an ending, but I definitely could have read several more chapters, since she left the main character on the verge of revelation. (Or rather, he'd just had a revelation, and it remained to be seen whether he was going to do anything about it??)
It was recommended to me by the same friend who got me into Edith Wharton a few years ago, which is probably why I had the comparison in mind—
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Currently reading
Borrowed a collection of the first four Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace - probably my favorite of the 1930s-50s Children's Lit Series Inspired By The Author's Childhood (think the Little House books, All-of-a-Kind Family, The Moffats) - for my Nov. 3 comfort-reading, and spent last night reading the first two books, Betsy-Tacy and Betsy-Tacy and Tib.
Still making my way through Anna Karenina. Water is wet, Vronsky is the worst.
- Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One, a darkly funny (and, by the end, just plain dark) novella satirizing 1940s Hollywood in general and Herbert Eaton's Forest Lawn Memorial Parks in particular.
- Edna Ferber's So Big, a 1924 novel about a gambler's daughter who becomes a farmer's wife, a farmer's son who becomes a sculptor and another who becomes a big-shot financier, and Chicago in the 1900s-10s. I really liked it! My one complaint is that the ending felt rather abrupt— it worked as an ending, but I definitely could have read several more chapters, since she left the main character on the verge of revelation. (Or rather, he'd just had a revelation, and it remained to be seen whether he was going to do anything about it??)
It was recommended to me by the same friend who got me into Edith Wharton a few years ago, which is probably why I had the comparison in mind—
( Read more... )
Currently reading
Borrowed a collection of the first four Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace - probably my favorite of the 1930s-50s Children's Lit Series Inspired By The Author's Childhood (think the Little House books, All-of-a-Kind Family, The Moffats) - for my Nov. 3 comfort-reading, and spent last night reading the first two books, Betsy-Tacy and Betsy-Tacy and Tib.
Still making my way through Anna Karenina. Water is wet, Vronsky is the worst.
