{"id":387,"date":"2015-12-11T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/11\/books-i-bought-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:14:12","slug":"books-i-bought-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/11\/books-i-bought-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I Bought #2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have managed to acquire quite a few books in the last couple of weeks. \u00a0Hmmm. \u00a0Somehow that sounds a little vague as if the books just happened to me. \u00a0Let’s be blunt. \u00a0I have bought quite a few books lately. \u00a0Most of them came from a library book sale and from Goodwill so they were very affordable but still, my shelves are starting to groan. \u00a0In fact, my parents just bought me a new bookshelf for all the books stacked in front of the built-in ones in my living room.<\/p>\n

So, from top to bottom here is what I have.<\/p>\n

The Backward Shadow<\/i> by Lynne Reid Banks. \u00a0This is the sequel to The L-shaped Room<\/i> which is the story of a young, unmarried, pregnant woman who moves into a boarding house in London after being turned out by her father. \u00a0The Backward Shadow <\/i>follows Jane as she lives in a cottage with her child and tries to make a future for the two of them. \u00a0I read The L-shaped Room<\/i> a few weeks ago and I thought the author made life in a London boarding house during the late 1950s come alive.<\/p>\n

Alternative Alcott<\/i> by Louisa May Alcott. \u00a0An anthology of some of Alcott’s less famous works. \u00a0Some I have read before, such as “Hospital Sketches”, but some I am unfamiliar with, such as “Diana and Persis” which the blurb on the back says is her last unfinished novel.<\/p>\n

Never Let Me Go<\/i> by Kazuo Ishiguro. \u00a0It is described as the imagining of “the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England.” \u00a0It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.<\/p>\n

Between the Acts<\/i> by Virginia Woolf. \u00a0I have only read Mrs. Dalloway<\/i>. \u00a0I feel like I should read more Woolf. \u00a0Isn’t that what educated people do?<\/p>\n

The Age of Innocence<\/i> by Edith Wharton. \u00a0I think the only Wharton I have read is Ethan Frome<\/i>. \u00a0I read it in high school and I hated it. \u00a0It made me mad. \u00a0I didn’t like the characters, \u00a0I didn’t like the affair they were having, and I got so angry when they drove their sled into a tree. (Sorry if you haven’t read it and that spoils it for you.) \u00a0I thought it was so selfish. \u00a0I fumed about this book for days and got in an argument with my teacher about it. \u00a0Since I was a painfully shy girl and very quiet in class you can see that I must have been pretty worked up about it. \u00a0Recently I have been thinking that any author that can leave that big an impression on me must have something going for her so I am going to give Edith Wharton another try. \u00a0Besides, it won the Pulitzer Prize. \u00a0Apparently, this is also what educated people read.<\/p>\n

The Diary of Mattie Spenser<\/i> by Sandra Dallas. \u00a0Mattie marries Luke and they go off in a covered wagon to start a new life in Colorado. \u00a0The book is written in the form of her diary. \u00a0I like novels written as diaries, I like pioneer stories, I thought I might like this.<\/p>\n

To Serve Them All My Days<\/i> by R.F. Delderfield. \u00a0The story of a shell-shocked man who returns home from WWI and takes a temporary job as a teacher. \u00a0He ends up teaching for several decades. \u00a0I have read Delderfield’s The Dreaming Suburb<\/i> and The Avenue Goes to War<\/i> and I enjoyed them. \u00a0I like huge saga type novels that keep me busy for days.
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\nChatterton Square<\/i> by E.H. Young and William<\/i> by E.H. Young. \u00a0I really enjoy her novels. I wrote a review<\/a> of one a few days ago. \u00a0I just love her writing style. \u00a0I am slowly buying all her novels. \u00a0I hear good things about Miss Mole<\/i> and will have to look for that one next.<\/p>\n

I actually ordered two more books online but they haven’t come yet. \u00a0Is there anything in my stack you really recommend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have managed to acquire quite a few books in the last couple of weeks. \u00a0Hmmm. \u00a0Somehow that sounds a little vague as if the books just happened to me. \u00a0Let’s be blunt. \u00a0I have bought quite a few books lately. \u00a0Most of them came from a library book sale and from Goodwill so they were very affordable but still, my shelves are starting to groan. \u00a0In fact, my parents just bought me a new bookshelf for all the books stacked in front of the built-in ones in my living room. So, from top to bottom here is what I have. The Backward Shadow by Lynne Reid Banks. \u00a0This is the sequel to The L-shaped Room which is the story of a young, unmarried, pregnant woman who moves into a boarding house in London after being turned out by her father. \u00a0The Backward Shadow follows Jane as she lives in a cottage with her child and tries to make a future for the two of them. \u00a0I read The L-shaped Room a few weeks ago and I thought the author made life in a London boarding house during the late 1950s come alive. Alternative Alcott by Louisa May Alcott. \u00a0An anthology of some of Alcott’s less famous works. \u00a0Some I have read before, such as “Hospital Sketches”, but some I am unfamiliar with, such as “Diana and Persis” which the blurb on the back says is her last unfinished novel. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. \u00a0It is described as the imagining of “the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England.” \u00a0It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf. \u00a0I have only read Mrs. Dalloway. \u00a0I feel like I should read more Woolf. \u00a0Isn’t that what educated people do? The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. \u00a0I think the only Wharton I have read is Ethan Frome. \u00a0I read it in high school and I hated it. \u00a0It made me mad. \u00a0I didn’t like the characters, \u00a0I didn’t like the affair they were having, and I got so angry when they drove their sled into a tree. (Sorry if you haven’t read it and that spoils it for you.) \u00a0I thought it was so selfish. \u00a0I fumed about this book for days and got in an argument with my teacher about it. \u00a0Since I was a painfully shy girl and very quiet in class you can see that I must have been pretty worked up about it. \u00a0Recently I have been thinking that any author that can leave that big an impression on me must have something going for her so I am going to give Edith Wharton another try. \u00a0Besides, it won the Pulitzer Prize. \u00a0Apparently, this is also what educated people read. The Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas. \u00a0Mattie marries Luke and they go off in a covered wagon to start a new life in Colorado. \u00a0The book is written in the form of her diary. \u00a0I like novels written as diaries, I like pioneer stories, I thought I might like this. To Serve Them All My Days by R.F. Delderfield. \u00a0The story of a shell-shocked man who returns home from WWI and takes a temporary job as a teacher. \u00a0He ends up teaching for several decades. \u00a0I have read Delderfield’s The Dreaming Suburb and The Avenue Goes to War and I enjoyed them. \u00a0I like huge saga type novels that keep me busy for days. Chatterton Square by E.H. Young and William by E.H. Young. \u00a0I really enjoy her novels. I wrote a review of one a few days ago. \u00a0I just love her writing style. \u00a0I am slowly buying all her novels. \u00a0I hear good things about Miss Mole and will have to look for that one next. I actually ordered two more books online but they haven’t come yet. \u00a0Is there anything in my stack you really recommend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-i-bought","category-e-h-young"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}