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I finally finished Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford. I quite liked it though I read it at a fairly leisurely pace (no, this month's tally will not be over 30 books...). It's a warm-hearted sketch of the elderly maidens living in the town of Cranford. None of them are that well off and they practice "elegant economies" that enable them to make it with the funds available to them. They wonder whether they can visit a former farmer's daughter who has married well and how to address a lady that is coming to town for a visit.
The narrator is an outsider who visits the town every now and then and has come close with the ladies living there. Some of the happenings are sad and some of them quite humorous, like the big robbery scare. Even though they have their arguments, they still always support each other. It was quite pleasant to read about the way everybody, whatever their own financial status, pitched in to help Miss Matty when she had financial difficulties.
To sum it up, the book is a very pleasant and heart-warming tale about elderly ladies and their lives in a small town. Next, I think, I will read something light (Inuyasha) and then continue with more Gaskells. At least based on this one book, I think I've found a new favourite author.
In sports, Finland has won it's first two medals today. One was a bronze in Half-pipe snowboarding (whatever the correct term) and the other was a silver in Skijumping (Normal Hill) which a sport Finns have traditionally excelled in. I briefly glanced at the Luge competition, but I find it totally unwatchable. Person after person goes down in a sort of sled and someone wins by fractions of a second. Bleh.
Tomorrow, some curling and the Pairs Final in figure skating. Goody!
The narrator is an outsider who visits the town every now and then and has come close with the ladies living there. Some of the happenings are sad and some of them quite humorous, like the big robbery scare. Even though they have their arguments, they still always support each other. It was quite pleasant to read about the way everybody, whatever their own financial status, pitched in to help Miss Matty when she had financial difficulties.
To sum it up, the book is a very pleasant and heart-warming tale about elderly ladies and their lives in a small town. Next, I think, I will read something light (Inuyasha) and then continue with more Gaskells. At least based on this one book, I think I've found a new favourite author.
In sports, Finland has won it's first two medals today. One was a bronze in Half-pipe snowboarding (whatever the correct term) and the other was a silver in Skijumping (Normal Hill) which a sport Finns have traditionally excelled in. I briefly glanced at the Luge competition, but I find it totally unwatchable. Person after person goes down in a sort of sled and someone wins by fractions of a second. Bleh.
Tomorrow, some curling and the Pairs Final in figure skating. Goody!