I tried reading "Isopel Berners"... to try to reply to.. some post of yours in Mallory's.deer of the dawn wrote:I think I need to re-read George Borrow's books. Lavengro and Romany Rye changed my outlook on the minds of 19th century people...
I was sick in bed that day, and it got my attention.
Unfortunately, I think that might not have been the best introduction to George Borrow for me... I felt like he was all over the place!
But I skipped to the end, and I don't think I can forget Isopel's philosophy of life! =)
I'm in a I-need-something-new-and-fictional funk.
Have been reading "Girl Meets God," by Lauren F. Winner.
It's a memoir, but I've concluded that I may not finish it 'cause her narrative voice is grating on me.
Speakin' of the devil... I got an author recommend out of one of C.S. Lewis' lectures a bit back.deer wrote:...and Tolkien and Borrow go off about philology and Lewis just rolls his eyes.
Lewis was all like, "in happy familes, like the <something family*> in War and Peace, and nearly all the families in Charlotte M. Younge's stories..."
The other day, I was looking on Amazon, and it seems like you can get all Charlotte M. Yonge's novels as one kindle e-book for $2.99. I am curious!
* yes, I haven't read War and Peace. and I don't have the Lewis book with me atm. So I don't know which family.