Wednesday Reading Meme

[osprey_archer]

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

By popular demand, I read Hilary McKay’s A Little Princess sequel, Wishing for Tomorrow, and I’m happy to say I quite enjoyed it! I read the whole thing in one evening: the narrative force tugged me along so fiercely that I almost forwent an ice cream excursion because I wanted so much to keep reading

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[rachelmanija]

Ermie! Dear God.

my standards for friendship really aren’t impossibly high.Let me tell you an anecdote that hopefully isn't too tl;dr

[asakiyume]

I'm going to copy this message and send it to my younger daughter, who needs to see it. And osprey_archer she feels the same way you do about friendship.

[osprey_archer]

I feel like I have better luck finding people who feel this way about friendship on the internet than IRL. It's a pity we can't all congregate in one place and befriend each other.

[osprey_archer]

I don't know why canon characters with perfectly reasonable names so often get terrible nicknames in fic. I think the worst is in Les Mis movie fandom, where it has become a thing to shorten Enjolras to Enjy. Enjy.

Although Enjy is still not as bad as Ermie.

And wow, that was a wretched thing for your friend to do. Sometimes I feel like having expectations of friends - any expectations at all, not just high ones - is seen as asking too much. Because the point of friendship (as opposed to other family or romantic relationships) is that there are no obligations, or something like that.

[sartorias]

I have David Blaize, and its sequel, when he forces David to fall in love with a woman--it is very, very homoerotic. (And unfortunately not as witty as some of his other writing.)

[osprey_archer]

This is what I've heard about David Blaize. I will continue to contemplate... I've also heard good things about Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels, and the first two of those are free on Kindle, so perhaps I'll try one of those instead.

[sartorias]

The Mapp and Lucia novels are uneven; the Mapp ones are better overall, I think, than the Lucia ones, which are pretty good except for Lucia in London, which is one long story about humiliation and social climbing. (A great many of Benson's non-ghost short stories are about social climbers getting stung for their presumption.)

There is one great moment in the Lucia stories, about Georgie, that should not be missed, however.

[osprey_archer]

I think I'll give Lucia in London a miss, then, because humiliation is not my cup of tea. The Georgie moment is presumably in one of the other Lucia books?