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Library Trip
Feb. 15th, 2012 03:13 pmI didn't need that umbrella, after all. At least I didn't lose it. A very springy day, the kind that has a hint of summer in it. A tiny bit muggy, but not uncomfortable, though nearing it.
I still have a few pages to go on "Our Mutual Friend", but I still had a tough decision to make about what to get next. As much as I have refound my appreciation for Dickens, I am thinking that one such novel every half-year is probably good enough. The complicating factor, though, is that I am looking to book-blog a Dickens novel, since the text is availably and copiable online, and although I have come to like "Our Mutual Friend", I am thinking that I might greatly favor "Great Expectations", but I have not read this latter novel since UTSA days.
Still, back to back Dickens?
As it turns out, circumstances spared me from trying it. The library did have one copy of "Great Expectations" on the shelves, but it was a small, cheap paperback, and I did not want to take in one of the formative novels of my reading life in that shabby manner.
Than I thought of that woman who had a way with historical novels. I read her Mary and Jesus one as well as her work on Henry VIII. Margaret George is her name. Which I had to relearn by punching up subjects on the computerized catalogue. But fate seemed to be working against me: the only one of her books that were on the shelves is the Henry VIII one. Struck out there and time was running short.
A little higher on the shelves I came across "North Dallas Forty" by Peter Ghent. You know I love the movie, and I have long been curious to try the novel. Rave reviews and the writing looks good, even if it is from a football player. I ran with it. I'm hoping it is going to be a lot of fun.
I still have a few pages to go on "Our Mutual Friend", but I still had a tough decision to make about what to get next. As much as I have refound my appreciation for Dickens, I am thinking that one such novel every half-year is probably good enough. The complicating factor, though, is that I am looking to book-blog a Dickens novel, since the text is availably and copiable online, and although I have come to like "Our Mutual Friend", I am thinking that I might greatly favor "Great Expectations", but I have not read this latter novel since UTSA days.
Still, back to back Dickens?
As it turns out, circumstances spared me from trying it. The library did have one copy of "Great Expectations" on the shelves, but it was a small, cheap paperback, and I did not want to take in one of the formative novels of my reading life in that shabby manner.
Than I thought of that woman who had a way with historical novels. I read her Mary and Jesus one as well as her work on Henry VIII. Margaret George is her name. Which I had to relearn by punching up subjects on the computerized catalogue. But fate seemed to be working against me: the only one of her books that were on the shelves is the Henry VIII one. Struck out there and time was running short.
A little higher on the shelves I came across "North Dallas Forty" by Peter Ghent. You know I love the movie, and I have long been curious to try the novel. Rave reviews and the writing looks good, even if it is from a football player. I ran with it. I'm hoping it is going to be a lot of fun.
