I am not actually reading all of them at once. The only one I’m actively reading is What Did Miss Darrington See?
Both The Dark Monk and Nature Wars I have read the first chapters of, but I haven’t developed a committed reading relationship with either one yet.
And the rest are to be read eventually, probably.
Coffee Table Books!
Mockingbird by Julie Trimingham
The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories edited by Richard Dalby
Flickering Shadows by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau
Also, Sallie has been reading this one out loud to me, one story at a time:
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue
I recently finished In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker. I may write down some more thoughts on this later, if I feel inspired.
I recently abandoned Grange House by Sarah Blake because it felt over-written and because I had zero interest in the love-story parts of it. Give me a straight ghost story any day! But if you start adding anything hinting at a love triangle, it had better be really really well written or I’ll drop it quick.
Finally, Red doc> by Anne Carson is currently hibernating. It’s a book that I want to give 100% heart and attention to, and I just don’t have enough freedom from distraction right now. I mostly have to snatch my reading in small moments–that’s why I always keep a book on the back of the toilet!–and that’s very much not how I want to read this particular book. So it is waiting in the wings for a time when I feel able to set aside the 500 other things pulling at my attention and really sit down for a solid chunk of reading.
I think that’s everything! I hope to do one of these snapshot posts on a semi-regular basis because it will be useful and interesting to me to have a little summary I can look back on to see what I was reading “back then.”
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