Wednesday Book Thing
Mar. 27th, 2013 07:46 pmJust finished:
A lot of Maeve Binchy. When my 'Books Read' list fills up with Maeve Binchy and/or Jilly Cooper it tends to be a sign that things might be going better, as is indeed the case now. After all the monitoring as a first time mother (which still left me slipping through the net and not being reated for post-natal depression for months on end), second time round it appears one is left to swim or sink, and unfortunately I had rather been sinking, and hadn't even noticed until the mental clouds began to lift a week or so ago. Now heading in the right direction, but there are an awful lot of things to repair after the past few months.
Ben Aaronovitch - Moon Over Soho. I bought Rivers of London with last year's birthday book token, then didn't read it for months. I wasn't so daft this year (I was already reading it when![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
legionseagle recommended them recently). Unqualified adoration here.
Now reading:
Richard Mabey - Nature Cure Possibly a book about recovering from depression is not the best choice when one is in fact recovering from depression. I had been meaning to read it for several years though, and Waterstones in Norwich (vastly improved, seems to be an actual bookshop again) had it on a table when I was spending the aforementioned book token. I'm thinking of starting a new shelf, of books where Roger Deakin makes a guest appearance though.
Juliet Gardiner - The Thirties, an intimate history I feel as if I've been reading this for at least a decade. It's too fat a paperback to read while feeding a baby, so rather languishes.
Going to read:
Helen Waddell - Peter Abelard Or possibly just the Easter section, because it's Easter and I read that section most years. It's the one book that says spring to me.
Lois McMaster Bujold - Brothers in Arms Picking up my fairly leisurely re-read of all the Vorkosigan novels.
Something readable on the Anglican church in the twentieth century, because the plot bunnies be full of the joys of spring.
A lot of Maeve Binchy. When my 'Books Read' list fills up with Maeve Binchy and/or Jilly Cooper it tends to be a sign that things might be going better, as is indeed the case now. After all the monitoring as a first time mother (which still left me slipping through the net and not being reated for post-natal depression for months on end), second time round it appears one is left to swim or sink, and unfortunately I had rather been sinking, and hadn't even noticed until the mental clouds began to lift a week or so ago. Now heading in the right direction, but there are an awful lot of things to repair after the past few months.
Ben Aaronovitch - Moon Over Soho. I bought Rivers of London with last year's birthday book token, then didn't read it for months. I wasn't so daft this year (I was already reading it when
legionseagle recommended them recently). Unqualified adoration here.Now reading:
Richard Mabey - Nature Cure Possibly a book about recovering from depression is not the best choice when one is in fact recovering from depression. I had been meaning to read it for several years though, and Waterstones in Norwich (vastly improved, seems to be an actual bookshop again) had it on a table when I was spending the aforementioned book token. I'm thinking of starting a new shelf, of books where Roger Deakin makes a guest appearance though.
Juliet Gardiner - The Thirties, an intimate history I feel as if I've been reading this for at least a decade. It's too fat a paperback to read while feeding a baby, so rather languishes.
Going to read:
Helen Waddell - Peter Abelard Or possibly just the Easter section, because it's Easter and I read that section most years. It's the one book that says spring to me.
Lois McMaster Bujold - Brothers in Arms Picking up my fairly leisurely re-read of all the Vorkosigan novels.
Something readable on the Anglican church in the twentieth century, because the plot bunnies be full of the joys of spring.
