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by Anthony Trollope. Dr. Wortle discovers that his most esteemed teacher at his school for boys, Mr. Peacocke, is not actually married to his wife, leaving the school and Dr. Wortle in a moral quandary. I’ve never read Trollope. It was charming. The ending of this book was so strange — Dr. Peacocke’s marital situation is resolved and the last 20 pages of the book find Dr. Wortle’s daughter engaged to a former student. I am too thick to see the connection.
Thank you Sheila McGrath for mentioning this book years ago as one of your favorites. Now it’s one of mine too. I looked for a copy that didn’t have this hideous now-a-movie cover, but at $150-$1600 a pop online, I’ll just keep this one. Delightful.
On the first day of May (in my 50th year), my aunt Sue gave to me…. this wonderful little book I’ve never heard of written in 1949 and re-released by Persephone Press. Lovely.
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Monthly Archives: July 2016
From The Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Comatant
Satire about a Filipino immigrant fashion designer arrested by Homeland Security and held in Guantanamo Bay.
Orbiting Jupiter
by Gary Schmidt. Very spare writing, violent and sad ending. I really didn’t love this. It’s hard for me to imagine a middle schooler who would but the main character has been terribly traumatized and I haven’t so I can’t know. I read this directly after reading The War That Saved My Life about another […]
The Invention of Wings
Sarah Grimke, daughter of slave owner in South Carolina in the late 1800s. Hetty, or Handful as her mauma calls her, is one of her family’s many slaves. Absorbing story of their simultaneous struggles to escape — Sarah, her status as a woman and the mental chains that prevent her from exercising the inner outrage […]
The War That Saved My Life
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. Oh how I loved this book. My copy did not have the Newberry Medal on it — how glad I am to see that Bradley won a Newberry Honor for this sensitive, clever, adventurous, real, and riveting book. Ada and her little brother Jamie are sent to the country by their […]