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troisoiseaux) wrote2020-08-12 08:42 am
troisoiseaux) wrote2020-08-12 08:42 am
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Reading Wednesday
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Finished my re-read of The Once and Future King, which I wrote about here.
Read Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, his memoir of founding the Equal Justice Initiative and his work as a lawyer for "the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system," as the blurb puts it. The main narrative thread follows his efforts to save a wrongfully convicted man from the death penalty in Alabama in the early 1990s. This was an absolutely heart-wrenching read, but an incredibly valuable one. (And timely— I start law school on Monday!!)
Currently reading
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams, the fourth book in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. I read and enjoyed the first three books in high school, but I'd never gotten around to this one until now.
I've also started Agatha Christie's memoir, An Autobiography, which is incredibly charming so far. I'm particularly charmed by her young self's elaborate imaginary narrative "games"; she doesn't characterize this as an early attempt at writing stories, but it obviously was! In terms of insights gleaned into her work, apparently she based the house that Tommy and Tuppence purchase in The Postern of Fate off of her childhood home, down to Mathilde the rocking horse in the garden shed. Her mother's childhood may also be why Christie is so weird about adoption in her novels?
Finished my re-read of The Once and Future King, which I wrote about here.
Read Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, his memoir of founding the Equal Justice Initiative and his work as a lawyer for "the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system," as the blurb puts it. The main narrative thread follows his efforts to save a wrongfully convicted man from the death penalty in Alabama in the early 1990s. This was an absolutely heart-wrenching read, but an incredibly valuable one. (And timely— I start law school on Monday!!)
Currently reading
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams, the fourth book in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. I read and enjoyed the first three books in high school, but I'd never gotten around to this one until now.
I've also started Agatha Christie's memoir, An Autobiography, which is incredibly charming so far. I'm particularly charmed by her young self's elaborate imaginary narrative "games"; she doesn't characterize this as an early attempt at writing stories, but it obviously was! In terms of insights gleaned into her work, apparently she based the house that Tommy and Tuppence purchase in The Postern of Fate off of her childhood home, down to Mathilde the rocking horse in the garden shed. Her mother's childhood may also be why Christie is so weird about adoption in her novels?
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I never got around to reading So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish either. I've lately been thinking I could give the series a reread and try to read that one as well this time. Are you enjoying it?
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Yeah! I finished it last night.
I re-read the first three books earlier this summer and they were a much-needed comfort read, although some of the jokes have held up too well— in this one, someone named their dog Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog because (to paraphrase) his hair stuck up and made him look like the American president. (Which would have been a reference to Ronald Regan, but like, oof.)
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