30 day book meme: Day 7
May. 23rd, 2019 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
regshoeDay 7: Forgot I owned it.
This question is an interesting logical paradox, since I'm not sure how I can post about a book if I've forgotten about it. However, I decided to go rummaging around the stacks of books hidden up on the top of my bookshelf to see if anything up there surprised me, and I came up with Village Diary and Mrs Pringle by Miss Read. I think I must have forgotten about at least one of these two, because they were on different shelves and I always keep books by the same author together (unless space prevents it—Raising Steam and The Shepherd's Crown are tragically separated from the rest of my Discworld collection because they're hardbacks and I only have limited space for tall books).
The Miss Read books are a bit of an indulgence of mine. They're very cosy stories of post-war English village life, written by the interesting device of using the first-person narrator as a pseudonym, so the author presents herself as a character in the story, like a less mysterious Lemony Snicket. The stories relate the everyday lives of a large cast of characters in and around the village as seen through the eyes of the village schoolmistress—there's a lot of domestic detail and gentle humour, never too much in the way of serious conflict. I wouldn't want to read this sort of thing all the time, but they're very good for curling up with a hot chocolate and some quality comfort reading.
I haven't actually read Mrs Pringle yet, since it's later on in the series and I haven't been able to get my hands on the intervening books (there are quite a lot of them). For now, I will put these two back on the shelf, in the same place this time.
This question is an interesting logical paradox, since I'm not sure how I can post about a book if I've forgotten about it. However, I decided to go rummaging around the stacks of books hidden up on the top of my bookshelf to see if anything up there surprised me, and I came up with Village Diary and Mrs Pringle by Miss Read. I think I must have forgotten about at least one of these two, because they were on different shelves and I always keep books by the same author together (unless space prevents it—Raising Steam and The Shepherd's Crown are tragically separated from the rest of my Discworld collection because they're hardbacks and I only have limited space for tall books).
The Miss Read books are a bit of an indulgence of mine. They're very cosy stories of post-war English village life, written by the interesting device of using the first-person narrator as a pseudonym, so the author presents herself as a character in the story, like a less mysterious Lemony Snicket. The stories relate the everyday lives of a large cast of characters in and around the village as seen through the eyes of the village schoolmistress—there's a lot of domestic detail and gentle humour, never too much in the way of serious conflict. I wouldn't want to read this sort of thing all the time, but they're very good for curling up with a hot chocolate and some quality comfort reading.
I haven't actually read Mrs Pringle yet, since it's later on in the series and I haven't been able to get my hands on the intervening books (there are quite a lot of them). For now, I will put these two back on the shelf, in the same place this time.
