Recent reading
Apr. 20th, 2023 09:10 pmArmadale by Wilkie Collins (1866)
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regshoe tells me to, apparently! It was a great choice to listen to this as an audiobook rather than read it with my eyes; the reader doing Lydia Gwilt was particularly good. I enjoyed this dramatic ride, but I won't attempt a proper write-up when such good ones already exist. Currently I am reading this Lydia Gwilt fic, with a delightful narrative voice.
Hornblower and the Hotspur by C S Forester (1962)
I am really appreciating these books now, and greatly enjoyed this! It has some good Hornblower-and-Bush interaction, along with some exciting naval adventure. And some peak Hornblower passages such as They had not done this as a joke, or in a silly attempt to win his favour. He had to believe the unbelievable, and accept the fact that they had done it because they liked him. That showed their poor judgement; gratification warred with guilt in his mind, yet the fact that they had dared to do such a thing was a strange but undeniable confirmation that the Hotspur was welding herself into a fighting entity. Wow. And then there’s the bit where he goes through with a wedding to someone he doesn’t love because he can’t say no and feels guilty about disappointing her...
Am reading various Hornblower fic now, and enjoying that, too!
I read what
regshoe tells me to, apparently! It was a great choice to listen to this as an audiobook rather than read it with my eyes; the reader doing Lydia Gwilt was particularly good. I enjoyed this dramatic ride, but I won't attempt a proper write-up when such good ones already exist. Currently I am reading this Lydia Gwilt fic, with a delightful narrative voice. Hornblower and the Hotspur by C S Forester (1962)
I am really appreciating these books now, and greatly enjoyed this! It has some good Hornblower-and-Bush interaction, along with some exciting naval adventure. And some peak Hornblower passages such as They had not done this as a joke, or in a silly attempt to win his favour. He had to believe the unbelievable, and accept the fact that they had done it because they liked him. That showed their poor judgement; gratification warred with guilt in his mind, yet the fact that they had dared to do such a thing was a strange but undeniable confirmation that the Hotspur was welding herself into a fighting entity. Wow. And then there’s the bit where he goes through with a wedding to someone he doesn’t love because he can’t say no and feels guilty about disappointing her...
Am reading various Hornblower fic now, and enjoying that, too!
