Bookworm Boud checking in to say Still Life is back in the library. I did my best but I just couldn't. Stilted, trying hard to be significant, oh well, some people liked the Italian art history take, the wartime setting, the love interest, maybe, I dunno. I was just not in tune with this writer.
Likewise A Well Trained Wife, by Tia Levings, a nonfiction account of a woman growing up in Southern fundamentalist church, finding herself in a violent marriage, eventually, managing to leave.
It's a well written, and chilling, account of white male church-centered patriarchy and family dominance, enforced by husbands with violence.
I read as far as I could, out of respect, and would recommend it, if you have the tolerance. My own trauma, not of marriage, but of war, got in the way. Mainly I think it was her helplessness and isolation that got me racked up. And her courage in the face of massive social coercion and danger.
On the other hand, volume two of the Cazalet Chronicles, continues to be very good, with some piercing insights from the younger characters.
I'm reading this on hoopla, since only volume 1 was available in paper form. I could use the diagram showing the family tree. A lot of characters.
Still to be read is Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower, another Susan Hill favorite.
It's fall, wonderful walking weather, and the cod and broccoli continue to please, also the afternoon tea with Misfits snickerdoodles, much bigger than the ones I've made. I've put a a couple in the freezer for Handsome Son's next visit.
He needs his strength, because I'm going to ask him for help turning the queen size mattress, a test of ingenuity and strength in my smallish bedroom. Usually one or other of us gets pinned in a corner and we're laughing too hard to escape. You can't just flip it, it's a onesided mattress design. You have to turn it through 180° in a pretty confined space.
Happy day, everyone, and I hope your mattress turning is rare, safe and successful. Sounds like something else..
As well as walking there was stretching, surprisingly energetic.
They say gentle, hm.
Keep resisting,sez
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