One last post!

The death of the swamp in A Girl of the Limberlost is emotionally unobtrusive, part of the background albeit always part of the background, and no one laments it or tries to stop it from happening - it’s just a fact of the setting. Elnora looks up from her busy schedule one day and realizes it's almost gone. She needs money for ( Read more... )

This post is late, late, late, because I've been sidetracked, both by work and by how much I want to say about A Girl of the Limberlost It continues to be the story of Elnora's strange and unsettling mother, and not very much of Elnora, though everyone still acts as if she's the most important person in the world. Kate is such a wonderful, strange ( Read more... )

Regular posting has not resumed! I didn't finish anything this week but Catullus (Frank O. Copley's hip-and-with-it translation style couldn't cope with the Roman marriage song; Peter Green fared a little better) and I've begun The Making of a Saint, a historical romance by the young W. Somerset Maugham that Maugham later pretended not to have ( Read more... )

Cross-posted to Dreamwidth!

osprey_archer gave me a list of books to read in exchange for a donation to the ACLU, and A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter was one of them. You can also sponsor a post with a $10 donation, if you would like to find out what I think of any book. This is Part 1 because I'm only four chapters into A Girl of the ( Read more... )