I moved away from Shakespeare for the most part since finishing King John. However, I did start Shakespeare’s Kings by John Norwich, which is a nonfiction look at how Shakespeare portrays the kings in the histories and how factual his portrayals are. I read about 50 pages covering the introduction and the section on Edward III. It’s actually a pretty easy read, although maybe that’s because I’ve read other histories of this time period so it’s not completely new information that I’m trying to process.
Then, for lighter reading, I turned to By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Last fall my husband and I went to St. Louis and on the drive home to OKC we stopped at Wilder’s home in MO where she wrote the Little House series. I loved seeing her house and the museum had wonderful family items, including Pa’s fiddle. I loved these stories as a kid and was amazed at seeing the real items. That inspired me to reread the stories. Unfortunately, I don’t feel like they’re holding up to a reread as an adult very well. Maybe the timing is just off and I feel like they’re keeping me from other books. I don’t think I’ll finish rereading the series right now because I don’t want to taint my memory of the books. I do think it’s interesting to read about life on the prairie and appreciate all the work they had to do just to survive. I think it’s hard enough to keep the house clean, but they had to build their own homes and clean without any modern conveniences. And cook everything from scratch and farm and take care of the animals. I’m glad we don’t have to live that way anymore. It does make me question certain habits I have though, like eating out, and make me want to do that less and not buy as much stuff in general. It makes you think about the simpler things in life.
Finally, I read a chapter in The Story of Art by EH Gombrich. I’ve been reading this slowly, usually a chapter a week, to try to absorb the artwork instead of rushing through it. Today’s chapter focused on Roman art and the transition from earlier ancient artistic methods.
Well, that might be it on the Read-A-Thon for me, although I imagine I’ll do a little more reading at some point this evening. But for now I’m heading to the pet store so my cats will have food tomorrow then cooking dinner and probably hanging out with the husband while we eat. If you’re still powering through the Read-A-Thon, happy reading!
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