wednesday books, in which women guide the plot

[landofnowhere]

The Rivals, Richard Sheridan. Readaloud (actually last week, but I forgot to write it up then). Sheridan's plays are good fun and hold up quite well. I enjoyed reading the part of the impractically romantic and melodramatic novel-reading Lydia Languish, as well as the view that the book gives on young ladies' novel-reading habits of the time.

Chroniques du pays des mères, Élisabeth Vonarburg. New French-language reading project! (Haven't had one of those for a while.) This is part of a reading group where we're doing a few chapters a week, so you'll see more posts about this. So far we have interesting post-apocalyptic future worldbuilding, introduced from the point of view of an appealing child character (along with some adult POV to provide more context).

Comments

[lunabee34]

I enjoyed The Rivals back when I read it in grad school; that whole Restoration drama course was a hoot.

[landofnowhere]

Ooh, a course on Restoration drama sounds like fun!

[lunabee34]

It really was. That particular professor was a complete hoot and just thoroughly besotted with 17th and 18 century literature and he was an amazing lecturer (this was 25 year ago when lecturing was not verboten, and I have always loved to listen to a good lecture); I took a couple of classes with him and thoroughly enjoyed them.