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WHAT I WAS READING ON THE WAY TO WORK: Mrs. Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light - a biography/social history of women who worked for Virginia (Stephens) Woolf's family. It's very readable, highly interesting, and highlights the class issues at work among the Bloomsbury group.
WHAT I MOST RECENTLY FINISHED: Back Story, an autobiography by the comedian and actor David Mitchell, not to be (but now even more easily) confused with the novelist David Mitchell. He is even more neurotic than his panel-show persona suggests, and as such is a very reassuring object lesson that People Who Think Too Much can grow up to be Just Fine and in fact Quite Happy.
I am still getting used to the fact that people in mid-career in comedy are my age, and that if I met them I would be nervous about being, not young and insignificant, but just plain insignificant. Though, on the plus side, we could potentially bond about generational things, like "hearing about Salman Rushdie having to go into hiding and imagining him under a table." David Mitchell would get that. John Oliver, possibly not so much.
WHAT I MOST RECENTLY REREAD: Drastically Redefining Protocol, a present-day Merlin BBC AU by Rageprufrock. I wish Hunith wasn't so weepy but otherwise I still enjoy it down to the ground.
WHAT'S UP NEXT: Possibly Shooting Victoria, nonfiction about assassination attempt(s) on Queen Victoria.
WHAT I MOST RECENTLY FINISHED: Back Story, an autobiography by the comedian and actor David Mitchell, not to be (but now even more easily) confused with the novelist David Mitchell. He is even more neurotic than his panel-show persona suggests, and as such is a very reassuring object lesson that People Who Think Too Much can grow up to be Just Fine and in fact Quite Happy.
I am still getting used to the fact that people in mid-career in comedy are my age, and that if I met them I would be nervous about being, not young and insignificant, but just plain insignificant. Though, on the plus side, we could potentially bond about generational things, like "hearing about Salman Rushdie having to go into hiding and imagining him under a table." David Mitchell would get that. John Oliver, possibly not so much.
WHAT I MOST RECENTLY REREAD: Drastically Redefining Protocol, a present-day Merlin BBC AU by Rageprufrock. I wish Hunith wasn't so weepy but otherwise I still enjoy it down to the ground.
WHAT'S UP NEXT: Possibly Shooting Victoria, nonfiction about assassination attempt(s) on Queen Victoria.
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