Wednesday is standing at the gate of the year, hoping for a light in the darkness
What I read
Finished Dreams Before the Start of Time, v good.
Also finished, what I have been dipping into on the ereader for months, GB Stern's early novel Twos and Threes (1916) and am pretty sure that Gladys entirely saw how codslapworthy Stewart was and with luck the impending marriage will implode before it ever happens. (Am almost tempted to write fanfic of this really obscure novel by a fairly obscure writer to get Peter - short for Pepita, her father is also a nightmare, of a different colour - and Merle, who has married a boring elderly diplomat, together again.)
Jo Walton, Lent (2019). Not, I think, placed among my top favourites by Walton, somehow.
On the go
Charles King, The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture (2019). I'm liking this a lot, on the whole, about Franz Boas and trying to remake anthropology so that it was not about reinscribing Western notions of racial hierarchy, etc. But I'm just slightly baffled that, o, hai, one of his leading disciples was Alfred Kroeber - possibly best known to my dr rdrz as the father of Ursula K Le Guin, somebody not mentioned in the book even though one could make a very cogent case for the influence of this school of cultural anthropology on her writing...
Amy Milne-Smith, London Clubland: A Cultural History of Gender and Class in late-Victorian Britain (2011) - more of the Palgrave Macmillan cybersale spoils. Interesting, though I was brought up short quite early on when the author placed the Garrick Club in Soho, when it is somewhat further eastwards in Covent Garden (as really one might anticipate given the theatrical connection).
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