April Books etc

[debodacious]

Again not much reading for pleasure this month but this should improve now I have finished my academic modules until September.

Shirley Jackson - Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons Somehow Shirley Jackson had passed me by although I had heard of The Haunting of Hill House, until last year the VG told me to read We Have Always Lived In The

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[callmemadam]

That sounds pretty productive for someone working so hard.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle has been on my Ought To Read list for a long time. Now you've put me off by saying it's like Betty Macdonald, whom I heartily dislike. Minority view, I know.

I'm watching the second series of the preposterous Outlander and finding it far less gripping than the first. Fabulous costumes, though.

[debodacious]

Actually WHALITC is nothing like Betty Macdonald - it is just the 2 autobiographies that reminded me a bit of her books, with the same domestic type of setting. I gather that domestic humour was quite a thing in mid 20th century America and have just impulse bought a book on the subject.

[slemslempike]

Both those TV shows sound great, I'm going to look forward to watching them some time.

[debodacious]

I am going to read more of her books - I keep seeing references to The Lottery being her masterpiece.