Reading Wednesday

[brigdh]

What did you just finish?
Nothing! Which is what happens when you start a bunch of books instead of sticking with one.

What are you currently reading?
This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education by José Vilson. Whoops. I kinda got distracted and read practically none of this.

Poison by Kathryn Harrison. A bizarre novel about the Spanish Inquisition and the French Queen of Spain in the 1600s. I'm not much liking this, but it is strangely compelling.

The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters. The second in the Amelia Peabody series! Definitely the most entertaining of the many books I'm currently reading.

Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement by Fergus M. Bordewich. Very dark in these first few chapters, but it is much more readable than you'd guess.

Comments

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I really like Kathryn Harrison. She's so strange.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

This is the first book of hers I've read. Do you have any recommendations?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I really loved Thicker Than Water, which I think is her first book. It's sort of claustrophobic. Exposure is the fictionalized version of her memoir I think, and it was interesting too. Basically all her stuff is fucked up family dynamics.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the rec! Poison ended up not working out for me, but I think I'd like her writing more if it was set in contemporary times.