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It's Wednesday, which means it's a good time to plan my reading strategy for the next week in the form of the Wednesday reading meme. I have a huge amount of stuff to read and reread for my research, plus as I discovered today to my horror, the latest Anne Perry mystery on amazon isn't actually out yet. It's not out until September and I am officially out of mysteries of dubious literary merit (I'm eyeing the cheap kindle 3-pack of the first three books in the series for a reread, but still). I do, however, have both Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Vilette on my ipad, as well as... let's see, Ivanhoe and Alif the Unseen for my fiction reading needs. I also saw a rec somewhere for A.S. Byatt, Possession, and subsequent investigation has convinced me that I must read in on the grounds of a) Brittany and b) academia. Even more subsequent investigation has led me to the discovery that my current institution's library has a copy, thus sparing my poor bank account another amazon one-click onslaught.
Anyway, what I've recently finished reading:
Jean-François Parot, L'année du volcan.
All of Anne Perry, Execution Dock, Acceptable Loss, and A Sunless Sea (since Sunday evening). Reading fluffy mysteries (note: not actually fluffy, plot-wise) in English goes so much faster than it does in French! Also, I totally called the murderer in A Sunless Sea about 2/3 of the way through and spent the rest of the book mentally yelling at the characters to clue in. That actually doesn't happen to me very often, mostly because I read these things for the characters, not the plot, pretty much.
What I'm currently reading:
André Chedeville and Noël-Yves Tonnerre, La Bretagne féodale (Rennes, 1987), the reread that has made me realize how much my French has improved in the past few years.
Gerd Althoff, Family, Friends and Followers: Political and Social Bonds in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 2004), translated from the German with funding from the Exxon Foundation (!!! O________O) because my German is crap. 90% of the works in the footnotes are German with German titles and that is a problem! My german-english dictionary app on my iphone cannot deal. What, for instance, is Lehnswesen in Was ist der Lehnswesen?
In any case, that is to say that it's not all gobbling up mysteries, or rediscovering the joys of fiction.
What I'm about to read:
Here, I have to strategize, because I need to read things in several directions. Thus:
Rereads for the historiography I'm handing in to Robin on June 7th:
Finish relevant parts of La Bretagne Féodale, read relevant parts of Trégor, Goëllo, Penthièvre or something similar on reading list.
Reread articles, preferably one a day, preferably take notes.
Things to read for theorizing the feeeeeeeeeelings side of my research:
Finish Family, Friends, and Followers.
Reread Kristen B. Neuschel, Word of Honor: Interpreting Noble Culture in Sixteenth-Century France (Ithaca, 1989).
Okay, that's kind of a lot, but I'll attempt to squeeze in some reading for fun too.
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In other news, I think I'm going to try making (vegan) kimchi. I feel the need to ferment things in my kitchen. I also got my course evaluations back today (and read them and they weren't all that bad), but I'll talk about that another time.
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/715852.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.
Anyway, what I've recently finished reading:
Jean-François Parot, L'année du volcan.
All of Anne Perry, Execution Dock, Acceptable Loss, and A Sunless Sea (since Sunday evening). Reading fluffy mysteries (note: not actually fluffy, plot-wise) in English goes so much faster than it does in French! Also, I totally called the murderer in A Sunless Sea about 2/3 of the way through and spent the rest of the book mentally yelling at the characters to clue in. That actually doesn't happen to me very often, mostly because I read these things for the characters, not the plot, pretty much.
What I'm currently reading:
André Chedeville and Noël-Yves Tonnerre, La Bretagne féodale (Rennes, 1987), the reread that has made me realize how much my French has improved in the past few years.
Gerd Althoff, Family, Friends and Followers: Political and Social Bonds in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 2004), translated from the German with funding from the Exxon Foundation (!!! O________O) because my German is crap. 90% of the works in the footnotes are German with German titles and that is a problem! My german-english dictionary app on my iphone cannot deal. What, for instance, is Lehnswesen in Was ist der Lehnswesen?
In any case, that is to say that it's not all gobbling up mysteries, or rediscovering the joys of fiction.
What I'm about to read:
Here, I have to strategize, because I need to read things in several directions. Thus:
Rereads for the historiography I'm handing in to Robin on June 7th:
Finish relevant parts of La Bretagne Féodale, read relevant parts of Trégor, Goëllo, Penthièvre or something similar on reading list.
Reread articles, preferably one a day, preferably take notes.
Things to read for theorizing the feeeeeeeeeelings side of my research:
Finish Family, Friends, and Followers.
Reread Kristen B. Neuschel, Word of Honor: Interpreting Noble Culture in Sixteenth-Century France (Ithaca, 1989).
Okay, that's kind of a lot, but I'll attempt to squeeze in some reading for fun too.
~
In other news, I think I'm going to try making (vegan) kimchi. I feel the need to ferment things in my kitchen. I also got my course evaluations back today (and read them and they weren't all that bad), but I'll talk about that another time.
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/715852.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.