Wednesday has at last got stuck into an overhanging commitment
What I read
Finished Love Lives, and while I'm a bit raising my eyebrows at the title which I felt didn't entirely do it justice, and not sure I learnt anything entirely new from it, on the other hand, and this is quite A Thing, I was pretty much completely in concurrence with Dyhouse's take on the changes and continuities in romance/sex/marriage/women's lives and expectations during a period which not only have I personally lived through (she and I are pretty much contemporaries) I have also writ on as a historian myself, and have read a fair number of the literary texts she cites. It's very readable and synthesises a lot of primary and secondary sources. (It also provided me with a few references I hadn't already got for a side-project of my own.)
There was a new issue of The Scribbler and the latest Slightly Foxed.
On the go
Continued to dip into In the Land of Invented Languages, which as I may have already mentioned, is a bit orthogonal to my own interest in the subject. I got at least something out of the section on Esperanto and Esperantists, and there was some useful stuff on CK Ogden and Basic English, and it was nice to see something on Suzette Haden Elgin's Laadan, but there is rather too much on the wider reaches of strange eccentric people with weird and megalomaniac ideas about language.
Have now got stuck in to T Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel #2) which came out the other day. (Though I don't call that so much foreshadowing the reveal as jumping up and down signaling it....)
Up next
Feeling ever so slightly spoilt for choice as several things that I thought might take some time to arrive have actually turned up. And A Desolation Called Peace drops this week.
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