OVERVIEW: Christmas reading
Jan. 4th, 2014 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feather_ghyllHappy New Year!
I am home after the Christmas holidays. Determined to travel yesterday, I had to change my travelling plans, but all ended up well.
You know how you notice something and then other examples of it keep cropping up, like buying clothes in a striking colour and then seeing people wear it all the time, well, these holidays, with me, it was books that don’t just have chapter titles, but each page has a relevant heading. I’ve probably got other books that do that, but I hadn’t really noticed them.
In Margery Merton’s Girlhood by Alice Cockran, they include ‘SECRETS AND TENDER THOUGHTS.’ (p25), ‘CRYING AND LAUGHING.’ (p112), and ‘A COLD FAREWELL.’ (p.213). In Miriam’s Ambition by Evelyn Everett-Green, they include ‘A TERRIBLE STORM.' (p26), ‘AT DINNER.’ (p113), and ‘A REWARD FOR BRAVERY.’ (p214)
Margery Merton’s Girlhood doesn’t really come together as a cohesive whole, dropping in and out of the heroine’s girlhood. It features an English old maid in Paris, nuns and girls who want to become artists. My edition is from the 1920s.
Miriam’s Ambition is much better than Everett-Green's My Cousin from Australia was. Perhaps I’m going to like her stories for younger readers more. My copy is from 1915 or earlier.
I also read the third in Carola Dunn's Daisy Dalrymple mysteries. Only six months had elapsed since I read the previous book. Requiem for a Mezzo. I was pleased that Daisy found a novel way of coming across a dead body, because I thought that if she did so in the course of writing her series on country houses for the third time, she’d probably lose the job. Who would want to invite a reporter if she always stumbled across a dead body? It featured what I’ve already come to expect from the series, lots of slang and a few wrinkles, including Americanisms, that you wish the editor had ironed out, but I do like the way Daisy and Alec’s relationship is coming along and the change of setting was promising.
I am home after the Christmas holidays. Determined to travel yesterday, I had to change my travelling plans, but all ended up well.
You know how you notice something and then other examples of it keep cropping up, like buying clothes in a striking colour and then seeing people wear it all the time, well, these holidays, with me, it was books that don’t just have chapter titles, but each page has a relevant heading. I’ve probably got other books that do that, but I hadn’t really noticed them.
In Margery Merton’s Girlhood by Alice Cockran, they include ‘SECRETS AND TENDER THOUGHTS.’ (p25), ‘CRYING AND LAUGHING.’ (p112), and ‘A COLD FAREWELL.’ (p.213). In Miriam’s Ambition by Evelyn Everett-Green, they include ‘A TERRIBLE STORM.' (p26), ‘AT DINNER.’ (p113), and ‘A REWARD FOR BRAVERY.’ (p214)
Margery Merton’s Girlhood doesn’t really come together as a cohesive whole, dropping in and out of the heroine’s girlhood. It features an English old maid in Paris, nuns and girls who want to become artists. My edition is from the 1920s.
Miriam’s Ambition is much better than Everett-Green's My Cousin from Australia was. Perhaps I’m going to like her stories for younger readers more. My copy is from 1915 or earlier.
I also read the third in Carola Dunn's Daisy Dalrymple mysteries. Only six months had elapsed since I read the previous book. Requiem for a Mezzo. I was pleased that Daisy found a novel way of coming across a dead body, because I thought that if she did so in the course of writing her series on country houses for the third time, she’d probably lose the job. Who would want to invite a reporter if she always stumbled across a dead body? It featured what I’ve already come to expect from the series, lots of slang and a few wrinkles, including Americanisms, that you wish the editor had ironed out, but I do like the way Daisy and Alec’s relationship is coming along and the change of setting was promising.
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