It’s been a very busy week. My mind is having to get used to the work/come home/cook dinner/schoolwork routine and I’m not quite there yet. The kids’ work is manageable and they do some of it in daycare but getting them to do some when they get home, when they are tired and when I am tired has been a challenge. The only thing that keeps me grounded is reading. Escaping to another place and time is very comforting when the world is seemingly out of control.
That said, I spent most of yesterday reading. I finished The Angel’s Game and I hope to have that review up sometime tomorrow. I am almost done with The Danish Girl and I have to say, that it is an intriguing read. I cannot put it down. There’s something forbidden about it and yet I can totally relate to the characters. I’m really enjoying it. As for the books above…I plan to get to them today after The Danish Girl.
On a personal note, I had to hit the lab for a blood draw yesterday and the phlebotomist did something to my arm and it’s killing me all the way up to my shoulder. Of course, Oprah’s recent segment on flesh eating bacteria has me a tad concerned.
What are you doing this Sunday? Are you enjoying the fair? Are you sinking your teeth into a good book? Do tell.
Set in rural Warwickshire just after the Second World War, The Little Stranger is her fifth novel, the first with a male narrator, Dr. Faraday. We meet the doctor at Hundreds Hall, a former grand structure now wasting away, and home to the Ayreses for close to two centuries. Members of the landed gentry now fallen to ruin, the Ayreses — Mrs. Ayres and her two grown children, Caroline and Roderick — seem steeped in a bygone, gentler age. Called upon to examine the housemaid, Dr Faraday finds himself strangely drawn to the dilapidated house, where his own mother used to work as a maid 30 years ago.
What begins as mild fascination with the house and its residents will transform itself into something more pronounced as Dr. Faraday scrambles to make sense of the strange happenings that begin to haunt Hundreds. Unexplained marks appear on the walls, fires start on their own accord, and footsteps break the silence of unoccupied rooms. Acting both as doctor and confidant, Dr. Faraday’s life becomes closely entwined with the Ayreses, even as a string of greater tragedies descend on the Hundreds.
This one sounds like a good one for the R.I.P IV challenge that I talked about here. What caught your eye this week?
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