Do Christians often overlook faults?
Nov. 30th, 2020 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyI planned to do a wrap up for my last monthly entry: updating various things mentioned earlier in the month. But I have had A DAY, f-list. As it's the last day of the month, it's my special day for working after everyone has finished in order to run the monthly financial reports and roll the monthly variables into the next month. Which is not hard, just a bit fiddly, and takes just over an hour on a good day. But today was not a good day, and I had to spend over an hour on the phone with the software support people before I could even start. At least they were in Brisbane, which doesn't do daylight saving time, so they were all still in the office.
So I'll put my original idea aside and instead, as I won't finish my current book tonight, I can do:
November books read
* Smoky-House - Elizabeth Goudge (1940) ★ ★ ★
What if Jamaica Inn was pro-smuggling and also had talking dogs and mer-people in it?
* Miss Mole - EH Young (1930) ★ ★ ★
Miss Mole is a book in the tradition of Lolly Willowes or Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, in which an unwanted spinster of a century ago finds happiness. Miss Mole is a woman of forty or so, who makes her living as a lady's companion or housekeeper, outwardly respectable and dowdy but with an extravagant imagination and sly sneakiness (we first meet her as she has tricked her current employer into giving her money to buy some sewing thread, which she uses to take the afternoon off and go to a tea shop). Her snobbish cousin finds her a new position as a housekeeper to a widowed vicar and his children, and things take a turn to a sort of realist Mary Poppins as Miss Mole attempts to improve their lives.
Most of the book is a slow character study of Miss Mole and the people in her life, with obtuse hints at two events: one that happened on the day she escaped to the tea shop and one from ten years in the past. Action comes right at the end and ties things up with a neat but unsatisfying bow. I was willing myself to like this more than I did.
So I'll put my original idea aside and instead, as I won't finish my current book tonight, I can do:
November books read
* Smoky-House - Elizabeth Goudge (1940) ★ ★ ★
What if Jamaica Inn was pro-smuggling and also had talking dogs and mer-people in it?
* Miss Mole - EH Young (1930) ★ ★ ★
Miss Mole is a book in the tradition of Lolly Willowes or Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, in which an unwanted spinster of a century ago finds happiness. Miss Mole is a woman of forty or so, who makes her living as a lady's companion or housekeeper, outwardly respectable and dowdy but with an extravagant imagination and sly sneakiness (we first meet her as she has tricked her current employer into giving her money to buy some sewing thread, which she uses to take the afternoon off and go to a tea shop). Her snobbish cousin finds her a new position as a housekeeper to a widowed vicar and his children, and things take a turn to a sort of realist Mary Poppins as Miss Mole attempts to improve their lives.
Most of the book is a slow character study of Miss Mole and the people in her life, with obtuse hints at two events: one that happened on the day she escaped to the tea shop and one from ten years in the past. Action comes right at the end and ties things up with a neat but unsatisfying bow. I was willing myself to like this more than I did.