Last week, being pinned to the sofa with the chest infection and the side-effects of the anti-biotics, I read my way through "Daphne" by Justine Picardie, from cover to cover. This week I am back into Edward Thomas country, reading the biography I got for Christmas: "Now All Roads Lead to France", with the Annotated Collected poems of Edward Thomas beside me for company. Bedtime reading is Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room".
Now we are virtually out of heating oil, we are down to one-room living, although my little office is bearable as long as I have the small oil radiator on when I am at the computer. Curtains are pulled early, a hot bath is the highlight of the day, and regular hot drinks the order of the day! Slipping into a warm - no, HOT - bed at night is bliss. Roll on spring! But then it will be all the outside jobs which cannot be done at the moment, so I will read whilst I can.
I am reading the Mitford Sisters Letters to one another. It is a huge tome but fascinating. Keep warm.
ReplyDeleteI like your reading selections; stay warm and comfy as you heal. I am reading Children of the Storm by Elizabeth Peters, set in Egypt in 1920. She mentions Lord Carnavon who owned Highclere Castle (I think) which is where Downton Abbey is filmed. The author is an Egyptologist.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading 'Cartimandua' by Nicki Howarth at the moment - sitting and reading seems like a good option to me at the moment. More snow on the way for us today I think.
ReplyDeleteWeaver - I have that on my bookshelf, but only dipped into it as yet. That should keep you quiet a good while!
ReplyDeleteTerra - I shall look out for that one. Yes, Lord Caernarvon owned Highclere (setting for Downton Abbey). When I lived in Hampshire I wasn't really aware of Highclere's existence (perhaps it wasn't open to the public then).
Rowan - I think I may have read that a few years back. I have certainly read A book about Cartimandua.
I have just finished Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, really good.
ReplyDeleteI always read several books at a time and right now I'm reading Godchildren by Nicholas Coleridge, Cater Cakes and Lace: A Calendar of Feasts by Julia Jones and Barbara Deer, Echoes of the Dance by Marcia Willet and Morville Hours by Katherine Swift. The Morville Hours is a reread and Cater Cakes I found because it was recommended on another blog and I'm too senile to remember whose.
ReplyDeleteJust finished A Lifetime In Building; The Extraordinary Story Of May Savidge And The House She Moved, bu Christine Adams. Fascinating but quite sad as well.
ReplyDeleteEmmmm .... im actually reading my Oor Wullie book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oor_Wullie that I had for Christmas (very childish) and an ebook on my phone Dating a Cougar - (very grown up lol)
ReplyDeleteGosh, we have a really interesting span of books mentioned here. I shall have to repeat this question in a few weeks, out of curiosity!
ReplyDeleteJeanne, Sorry to hear about the heating oil. What happens now? Our winter has kind of been non-existent here, days 50 - 60 F which is really warm. I have still been reading and knitting a lot. You are afraid to plant yet, for fear that the cold will come. I am reading Energy Secrets of Glastonbury Tor, and a series of books about a female bounty hunter. But I would love to read some of the ones that are mentioned here. Are the Avalon books still available? I didn't find an e-mail, so if you would let me know again, that would be lovely. Hope you are feeling better and that spring comes soon. Blessings, Lynn
ReplyDeleteLyn - I did e-mail you. I will try again. I still have the books on one side for you but postal charges Air Mail are prohibitive. I got quotes for surface mail, which was more bearable! I will convert into dollars too. Hopefully this time my e-mail will reach you!
ReplyDeleteLynn - Books are £6 plus £10 p&p = £16 = $25.27.
ReplyDeleteWill try e-mailing again.
P.S. Lynn - try mailing me on my hotmail account (details on the C&C shop site). Not sure if I can return e-mail via my BT account, which gave me a copy of your original email.
ReplyDeletewell I have been reading the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a trilogy of about 1800 pages! basically because it was bought for me - enjoyable though. And then just finished 'Zen Pioneer - Ruth Fuller Sasaki', not bad. But have Cunliffe's Danebury Hillfort at my side at the moment. Don't read much fiction it ruins the eyes ;)
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