Recent reading
Sep. 25th, 2024 11:31 amNot getting much reading done, for reasons of moving and getting things set up at the new place, which is keeping me terribly busy! Things are so far going well with the two housemates who have moved in.
The Hidden Hand by E. D. E. N. Southworth (1859)
I listened to the Librivox recording, which was good! This is enjoyable over-the-top melodrama, which I will not attempt to recap, because![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
skygiants has already done it so well. It has long-lost heirs, madcap adventures, villains who literally twirl their moustaches, an improbable amount of coincidences, etc. The main character, Capitola, is a most plucky and enjoyable heroine, and really makes the book. (Although the book is set in the slave-owning southern US, and I was jarred by occasional sentences along the lines of "he had been away from his estate, so probably all the slaves had been lazy while he was away".)
Two Weddings and Several Revelations by L. A. Hall (#4 in Clorinda Cathcart's Circle, 2019)
Some comfort reading for when I was moving, and indeed it provided! I love having these books as a go-to. In this volume: the younger generation coming of age, and buried family secrets coming to light.
The Hidden Hand by E. D. E. N. Southworth (1859)
I listened to the Librivox recording, which was good! This is enjoyable over-the-top melodrama, which I will not attempt to recap, because
skygiants has already done it so well. It has long-lost heirs, madcap adventures, villains who literally twirl their moustaches, an improbable amount of coincidences, etc. The main character, Capitola, is a most plucky and enjoyable heroine, and really makes the book. (Although the book is set in the slave-owning southern US, and I was jarred by occasional sentences along the lines of "he had been away from his estate, so probably all the slaves had been lazy while he was away".)Two Weddings and Several Revelations by L. A. Hall (#4 in Clorinda Cathcart's Circle, 2019)
Some comfort reading for when I was moving, and indeed it provided! I love having these books as a go-to. In this volume: the younger generation coming of age, and buried family secrets coming to light.
