What are you reading?

Ive just started the Anti Christmas League , its in Dutch so I will have to see if the translation is good..

A good book can be ruined by a bad translation.

Yesterday I read two magazines: "Good Housekeeping" and "Woman & Home". They are really good magazines and very modern. Some people make false assumptions because of their titles. BUT both magazines are highly modern and helpful. Their advice is top class.

I'm on the last book of the Baxter Family series. It includes a trip to Paris, yay!

I also got some books yesterday at the spring library booksale, some magazines too - a few for me, more for the teens.

I have started "The Day of the Jackal". I have a feeling I have read it before but am not sure.

Random but I did read it. Above my bed in the hotel in Attendorn was a poem (each room had a different one) mine was by Joseph von Eichendorff, and even in my limited German is was beautiful..

Mondnacht

Es war, als hätt’ der Himmel
Die Erde still geküßt,
Daß sie im Blütenschimmer
Von ihm nun träumen müßt’.

Die Luft ging durch die Felder,
Die Ähren wogten sacht,
Es rauschten leis’ die Wälder,
So sternklar war die Nacht.

Und meine Seele spannte
Weit ihre Flügel aus,
Flog durch die stillen Lande,
Als flöge sie nach Haus.



in English it doesnt flow as nicely but of course its easier to read.

Moonlit Night;

As if the sky's dark glimmer
had kissed the earth, it seems,
that now in blossom's shimmer
of him alone she dreams.

Wind passed across the meadows,
corn waved in mellow light,
faint sighs from woodland shadows,
so starry was the night.

And my soul, widely spreading
its wings, as if to roam
through silent lands, was heading,
at last was heading home.


I think I might look up some more of Eichendorff's work I like the descriptive nature of this poem.

I'm now reading a Mills & Boon romance novel.

I read Love & Friendship by Jane Austen last night. So entertaining! What wit when she was just 14!

There are a few other short pieces in the same book, so I'll get to those soon. Maybe I can start looking for an edition of her Juvenilia that has all parts in one book... That would be something like 500 pages, and I might have about 90 or so right now in my copy. (Library discard for the win!)

I am reading "Cupcakes and Cashmere" by Emily Schuman.

One of the best lifestyle books on the market.

I'm reading Love and Other Great Expectations by Becky Dean. Loving it so far!