Today even if I wanted to write more about the history of books I wouldn’t be able to because I haven’t had a chance to read more about it. I’m getting down to crunch time with school. This is the last week of class and then my final project is due December 6th. While I am finding Drupal to be a marvel of a system, it is a huge learning curve and I will be glad when I am finally done and can breath easy for a month.
That brings me to my book pile. It has grown a little larger and will likely continue to grow right up until the time I turn in my final project. I am not buying new books to add to the pile. The books in the pile are all taken from shelves and piles elsewhere and are being consolidated into the “things I want to read on my reading binge vacation and before school starts again” pile. There’s a difference, yes? I love sitting at my desk and glancing up now and then at the pile on the corner of it. It’s inspiring.
Along with the book about book history I have been reading Unseen Academicals and enjoying it very much. It’s about foot-the-ball, or as Americans call it, soccer. But of course it is about much more than that, it’s a Terry Pratchett book after all. Today I got a good giggle as I was reading along and this was just tossed out there:
Juliet’s version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.
Heh.
And even though it is a novella and therefore short, I have begun reading Elizabeth Gaskell’s Lois the Witch I will be hosting Gaskell on her blog tour on December 10th and I am paranoid about being done on time. So far it is good. It takes place in Salem during the witch trials.
Finally, I managed to already get my mitts on the next Slaves of Golconda book from my library, Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith. Discussion of the book is scheduled for January 31st. Everyone is welcome to join in.
Off to work on school. Hopefully tomorrow I will have something a little less pieced together but don’t count on it. It will be the day before Thanksgiving after all and my mind will already be on the pumpkin pie.
Mmm… pie!
I’ve half a mind to join in with one of these classics tours, and I’ve never read any Gaskell, and if you’re hosting… well. I’ll think hard about that one. And you are a brave and restrained woman with your special reading pile in your line of vision!
Good luck with the Drupal – I have every faith in you.
I’m looking forward to hear your review of Gaskell’s story, all the more as it’s not available online (Gutenberg) and I don’t know where to find it! I was considering to add some Gaskell into my Women Unbound challenge list.
Drupal sounds awful, btw. It could be the name of an evil character in a novel, don’t you find?
No, Smithereens, Drupal is something that happens to you after 50. Can you believe our library system did not have a single one of the books offered for this month’s Slaves voting.? Aargh. Well, a good excuse to buy another book. Hope you and Bookman have a very Happy Vegan Thanksgiving, Stefanie.
I loved breaks from school simply because I could read what I wanted! Such, such fun to be able to pick up a novel, instead of a textbook. I don’t know Drupal, so when I’m done here I’m going to look it up — I love the idea that it’s a “marvel of a system,” but am wondering about the huge learning curve. Something to learn every day!
For some reason I’m in a frame of mind to re-read old favorites, so have been going through my Betsy-Tacy books, set in Minnesota at the turn of the century. I also am reading a much more modern family situation kind of novel, “Love Tag,” by Peter Shianna. It’s got conflict, naturally, between parent and child, unfaithfulness — and adoptive situations which add to the mix. It kind of reminded me of “Ordinary People,” by Judith Guest, which is a book I’ve always enjoyed.
Happy Turkey Day everyone! Time to check out “Drupal.”
I keep adding books to my own binge pile and need to stop as there is no way I can read them all! Still, it’s nice to see them there waiting! Good luck getting your projects done for the end of the term–not too much longer to go until you have a little freedom again! And I’m thinking of pumpkin pie, too. I’ll be going to get some goodies later today (though it’s so windy here I hope I and the goodies won’t be swept away on the walk home!).
Good luck on getting your projects done and your stack read! Happy Thanksgiving Day!
Good luck with Drupal, it really is a different way of doing things isn’t it?
I’m really looking forward to your tour stop now. I had no idea Gaskill wrote about the witch trials, she really had a curious mind didn’t she?
The Pratchett quote made me smile, he is my favourite person to talk about religion.
Daphne, I love pie
Litlove, the classic tours seem to be off to a good start. I’ll be doing Edith Wharton in January. And in the works for February is the Harlem Renaissance. Join up at any time! The hard part about having the pile on my desk is keeping from adding to it!
Smithereens, Lois the Witch is available online for free at manybooks.net. Drupal does sound bad doesn’t it? Apparently it comes from a Dutch word for “community.”
Grad, LOL, that is marvelous! I got lucky this time with the Slaves book. I know how you feel though because it was very hard for me to find the Susan Hill book for last time.
Liz, sounds like you have some good reading going and in the works! I read the Betsy-Tacy books when I was a kid but don’t remember much about them other than I loved them. I should look at them again especially since they are set in Minnesota!
Danielle, our piles are always more ambitious than we can actually manage but that’s half the fun, isn’t it? I hope you didn’t get swept away by the wind!
Carrie, thank you, and I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving too!
Jodie, thanks! I take it you’ve used Drupal? Now that I am getting the hang of it I am starting to really like it. Lois the Witch is the only book Gaskell wrote set in America. I’m curious to see how she pulls it off. And I am glad you liked the Pratchett quote
That quote about cleanliness cracked me up. My form of cleanliness is very, very similar