Merry Wanderer of the Night:
what i'm reading monday

My tumble down the stairs last week required me to go to parents over the weekend; therefore, I didn't get as much reading done as I had planned. That being said, here is what I'm reading right now and what I plan to read this week. J.Kaye's Book Blog is the source of my What I'm Reading Mondays is J.Kaye's Book Blog.

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

by Jan Morris. I am finishing this book today for my travel writing class. The first half was not what I expected at all but I'm enjoying the second half more. It is about the city of Trieste which is in Italy (although it is unknown by most Italians).

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett is my first book for Shelf Discovery. I wanted to finish it over the weekend but it just didn't happen. I am enjoying it though. I grew up watching the movie and it is similar but the differences really change the way you understand the story.

I am embarking on a journey with George Eliot's Middlemarch starting today. It will be a very long journey, but I am looking forward to it.

I'm planning on reading The Lover

by Marguerite Duras later this week for the November Novella Challenge. I started this book once before and didn't finish it, even though I really liked it. So hopefully that will get done this week.

Since I forgot about doing a What I'm Reading Monday post yesterday I figured I'd make up for it today.

Finished
Lady Audley's Secret

is a Victorian sensation novel. I posted a review yesterday which you can read here.

Still Reading
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

is a Quirk Classic edition of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. I should finish it in the next couple days.

Started
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

by Jan Morris is a travel novel about the city of Trieste. Trieste is in Italy, but it has the cultures of many countries in it because it has kind of been passed between surrounding countries. Morris mostly discusses the "nowhereness" of the place.

A Little Princess (Unabridged Classics)

by Frances Hodgson Burnett is my first read for Shelf Discovery.

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie is a mystery I'm reading for Barnes and Noble's Literature By Women Book Club.

Thanks to J. Kaye's Book Blog I'm going to start posting what I'm reading this week and what I've recently finished.

Finished

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell is a classic novel that I read for my Prose By Women Writers class. This is the kind of book I typically enjoy though (I'm a Jane Eyre fanatic) so it was more fun than work for me. My favorite aspect of the book is that it allowed the working class to speak for themselves, a rarity in Victorian literature.
Emma: A Victorian Romance Volume One by Kaoru Mori is a great graphic novel that I found out about last week. I promptly purchased Volumes One and Three from Daydream Comics in Iowa City, they unfortunately didn't have Volume Two. The graphic novel is based in Victorian London and is about a romance between a male of the gentry and a maid. Mori does an amazing job capturing several aspects of Victorian society, I will be posting a review this week.

And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander is a mystery novel that I could not put down, although to be fair I was reading it during Dewey's Readathon. It is a Victorian mystery about a woman who falls in love with her husband after his death... or is he really dead? I will be posting a review this week.

Currently Reading
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters. I just finished Sense and Sensibility for class so I'm excited for this modern spin.

Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon is a Victorian sensation novel

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie is a mystery I'm reading for Barnes and Noble's Literature By Women Book Club.