Love this recap, Amy! I too have The Nightingale sitting on my shelf waiting to be read .... come to think of it, I also have The Women on my shelf waiting to be read.
I loved Small Things Like These. The movie was beautiful too. You might really enjoy Keegan's novel Foster, which was also made into a movie -- an Irish-language film called The Quiet Girl. That one was so lovely (the movie made me cry!). Sometimes I am just in the mood for smaller, more impactful books rather than sweeping sagas.
I'm very intrigued by that "Austen's rogues" article -- gonna bookmark that one!
Love this! Eagerly awaiting your Mr. Darcy post whenever it is ready. I really did not like him at all the first time I saw the 1995 adaptation and read the book. He’s not a dreamboat at the beginning for me.
I loved Small Things Like These too! And Foster, maybe even more. Her collection Antarctica haunts me (not always in a good way) but I love how Claire Keegan can be so compelling in so few pages. There have been books 10x that size that haven’t stayed with me so long.
I finished reading the Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson. I read the first two books aloud to my daughter (11ish at the time, I think), but based on those I didn’t think I wanted to continue. She read the last two on her own and then told me I had to read them. I devoured both of them and they made the sometimes-slogs of the first two books worth it. Definitely too old for your kids at this point, but I’d recommend them highly! Both the third and fourth books had very powerful endings.
Love this recap, Amy! I too have The Nightingale sitting on my shelf waiting to be read .... come to think of it, I also have The Women on my shelf waiting to be read.
I loved Small Things Like These. The movie was beautiful too. You might really enjoy Keegan's novel Foster, which was also made into a movie -- an Irish-language film called The Quiet Girl. That one was so lovely (the movie made me cry!). Sometimes I am just in the mood for smaller, more impactful books rather than sweeping sagas.
I'm very intrigued by that "Austen's rogues" article -- gonna bookmark that one!
Love this! Eagerly awaiting your Mr. Darcy post whenever it is ready. I really did not like him at all the first time I saw the 1995 adaptation and read the book. He’s not a dreamboat at the beginning for me.
I loved Small Things Like These too! And Foster, maybe even more. Her collection Antarctica haunts me (not always in a good way) but I love how Claire Keegan can be so compelling in so few pages. There have been books 10x that size that haven’t stayed with me so long.
I finished reading the Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson. I read the first two books aloud to my daughter (11ish at the time, I think), but based on those I didn’t think I wanted to continue. She read the last two on her own and then told me I had to read them. I devoured both of them and they made the sometimes-slogs of the first two books worth it. Definitely too old for your kids at this point, but I’d recommend them highly! Both the third and fourth books had very powerful endings.
In terms of writing, my writing is musical but I read and then wrote a musical setting of “Were I A King,” a powerful six-line poem by Edward de Vere: https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/de-vere-poem-16/