pickA couple rushes to marry & then make the most to set up house with little money and a lot of paint and hope. The course of their marriage, though unknown to them, is written when the jeweler refuses to give them the traditional silver spoons upon their engagement. Disappointment follows. Their love fails; lovers and babies come and go. The wife never gives up her hopes and dreams despite some dreary circumstances. A great read.
Thankful for so much today, not least of which is all the good books and good friends I've found via Litsy. Also, that my life is not the least like poor Sophia, in the book I've spent much of today reading. Happy Thanksgiving to those to whom it should apply and happy Thursday to everyone else. 🧡
pickSophia, our very naive protagonist, marries young in a rushed wedding that no one approves of. What follows are years of poverty as she supports her artist husband and child. She never loses her spirit but she also never really seems to mature. I frequently wanted to shake her but that just shows how vivid the writing was. Sometimes funny, often harrowing all in under 200 pages. What book by Comyns should I read next?
pick3.5⭐️ If Sophia Fairclough was my sister or my daughter, I would have pulled her out of her misery. A dimwit as a husband is enough to deal with, and yet she let herself be in repetitive failures 🙄 A mistake made more than once is a decision! Gaaahhh!!! What a frustrating ride!
#nyrb #bookhaul alert!! 🚨
Thanks to @MicheleinPhilly for informing me of their last sale, whereupon I lost all self control 😬😘❤️😜🤗💸
pickWhat a tragic and important book! The simple, yet clever, voice makes this difficult book seem like light reading and is also where the book gets its humor. I found it sad that even though destitute, she couldn‘t (or wouldn‘t) talk about what horrible conditions she and her child were living in. Although thankfully, things do look up toward the end of the book.
1. The tagged book and Furiously Happy on audio.
2. Born a Crime, The Hate U Give and Circe
3. Historical Fiction and Mysteries
4. Teapots, mugs, bookmarks, magnets
5. All littens who want to play
#latenightthoughtswithMisty
"I had a kind of idea if you controlled your mind and said, 'I won't have any babies' very hard, they most likely wouldn't come. I thought that was what was meant by birth-control, but by this time I knew that idea was quite wrong."
?Quite wrong. Horrifically wrong.
Today's #BookMail was a welcome surprise after my three day battle with UPS over the condition of my driveway being quite safe to drive a truck. ???♀️ #seriously #problems
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths | 
