Currently reading
After weeks of remodeling and painting, my muscles needed a break. Â So even though I have lots of work to do on the house, I gratefully have spent evenings over the last week or so catching up on all the reading I set aside when we moved in. Â Right before the move, I had re-read A Wrinkle in Time and resolved to read, for the first time, the remaining four titles in that series. Â Having done so now, I think I’m still partial to the first one, but all are that fun and characteristically L’Engle combination of easy reading yet thought provoking. Â I’m looking forward to introducing my oldest niece to these soon.
Also at the time of the move, I was about halfway through C. S. Lewis’ The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (I read a great review of it at a blog inspired by the book) and am back to that now. It was his last book and the one that perhaps captures him in his most natural habitat as a classics prof, and it’s one of those books I read with a full packet of post-it tabs for marking excellent points or quotes I want to remember.
Thanks to my sister, who’s a fellow Maisie Dobbs fan, I also got to catch up on that series with the latest, Among the Mad. Â This is a consistently interesting series, I have to say. Â I was excited to learn that a new one, The Mapping of Love and Death, is due out in April.
And now I finally have my TBR stack unpacked and organized again, so as soon as I finish Lewis, I’ll be reaching for one of these — which one, I haven’t yet decided.
What are you currently reading?
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