Arwenel, how/when you read something does have a huge impact on how you feel about a book (which may not be entirely fair to the book, but I think it can also say something about the book if it doesn't come through despite the reading setting); but I'll be curious to see if I think TaT is rambly when I read it.
Since I last posted, I've read
My Lady Ludlow (by Elizabeth Gaskell),
High Spirited Women of the West (by Anne Seagraves), and have started
Pearls, Girls, and Monty Bodkin (by none other than P.G. Wodehouse).
I've a little uncertain about my thoughts on
My Lady Ludlow. On one hand, there were some sweet bits and good quotes; on the other hand, the narrators got three or four levels deep at one point (and that recollection wasn't my favourite), which was confusing.
But it was kind of fun to see where they picked certain bits from in the 2009 (I think?)
Cranford miniseries.
High Spirited Women of the West was a non-fiction book I picked up offhand at the last library booksale. There were about nine or ten biographical accounts of various women in the western US while it was being settled - and some feminist (particularly, anti-men) sentiment in heaps at the beginning.
The author had some points about the lack of rights for women in the mid- to late-1800s (such as suffrage and restrictions on owning property and businesses), but the way she handled it rubbed me all wrong. The rest of the stories, though, were pretty interesting, so there was that. I probably won't keep the book, though.
Pearls, Girls, and Monty Bodkin is hilarious and delightful so far. I think we may perhaps see the end of the long Monty-Gertrude saga, which will hopefully end in a wedding (one way or the other, whichever is the best); we shall see, though.
I've had a soft spot for Monty ever since my first introduction to Wodehouse - the old adaptation of
Heavy Weather, where Monty was played by Samuel West (and the detective by David Bamber).
I've stuck
Words of Radiance in my bag and there's a long weekend...mayhaps I shall be able to fit in at least starting it.
There are also two copies of
Thick as Thieves floating around the family, but one was going to my brother-in-law next (and I've no idea if he's had time to get through it yet) and the other has gone to a friend (who has exerted her right as an adoptive sister to borrow a family copy (happily lent)
), and there are three of us still needing to read it so it may be a couple of weeks yet.