Two days in a row…
…where it would have been better to stay in bed.
*weeps, gnashes teeth*
I just finished Murdering Holiness last night, a book about turn-of-the-century Holy Rollers in Washington and Oregon and murders sparked by religious belief, intersecting with an examination of the insanity defense as a means for a jury to use “unwritten law” rather than actual law. It was also an examination of gender roles during that time. Needless to say, I recommend it for Candy, though my copy will probably go to my friend Jeff Davis first.
I am also reading Jennifer Stevenson’s Trash Sex Magic, but it’s hard going. I suppose I’ve read too much Dorothy Allison–and been too poor myself at various times–for me to read a book that romanticizes poverty. I understand what Stevenson is trying to do here, but several underlying assumptions in the story just bother the hell out of me. The writing is fine and I suspect would even be lovely if I could get over the romanticizing.
Last but not least is Sick Heroes: French Society and Literature in the Romantic Age, 1750-1850, which will take Murdering Holiness‘s place as bedtime reading. Am I such a geek because I am salivating at the mere thought?
All right, folks. Radio silence from me for a little while. Two bad days in a row are hard to take, even with a good TBR pile around.
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