The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
I read quite a bit today. After finishing The Rights of Man this morning and blogging the boys and I went for a walk to the bank. I read about half of Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys on the walk and then finished it over the too short nap time. It was [...]
Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault Page: 134 The Human Factor by Graham Greene Page: 335 I’m writing this at seven on a Saturday morning. I vaguely recall the delights of sleeping in. the drowsy comfortable feeling as you snuggle down in your sheets, the peaceful tug-of-war between your mild hunger and the pleasure [...]
The Wind in the Willows Page: 249 The Magic Mountain Page: 405 I’m with Lewis on Wind in the Willows and not just because it’s the safest position. It was a fun, adventurous book, full of exactly the kinds of things that delight children’s hearts: exploring, just enough danger to be frightening but not paralyzing, [...]
Great Expectations Charles Dickens Page: 544 Finished The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham Page: 120 It’s been awhile since I read The Wind in the Willows and I don’t think I finished it then. It’s been on my list of things I ought to know and love ever since I read CS Lewis [...]
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson Page: 147 Finished Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster Page: 223 Finished The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Page: 151 I’m a bit tired tonight but I wanted to post a bit about books since I haven’t been doing that very much lately. I loved Jean [...]
Jack the Giant Killer by Richard Doyle Page: 95 Finished The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels & The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald Page: 221 Jack is a bit violent. Not exactly Grand Theft Auto…but seriously bloody. There is actually an illustration of a giant getting it in the head with a pickaxe! Not for [...]
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Page: 597 Finished Russian Fairy Tales edited by Gillian Avery Page: 183 I read lots today (some easy reading) but I’m pretty tired so I don’t feel like a long blog. I guess I’ve discovered the great secret of generating comments on your blog…post about food. Speaking [...]
The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekov Page: 144 The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning Page: 106 Finished I love the Kate Greenaway illustrations in the Everyman’s edition of Browning’s poem. They are absolutely lovely, however the story makes me so sad. I cannot stand the idea of losing my children and even [...]
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Page: 319 Finished The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz Page: 1313 Finished I love Treasure Island. I’ve read it dozens of times since I first picked it up when I was 12 or so. It is perfect, exciting, wise but not moralistic, and just plain fun. I also thoroughly [...]
Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle Page: 170 I did get up at 6am. Also at 5am, 2am, 3am, 2:30am, 11:30pm (does it count if you haven’t had the opportunity to fall asleep yet?), and 4am. A restless toddler, hot bedroom, and hungry infant all conspired against me. So I didn’t go back to sleep [...]