{"id":4583,"date":"2014-04-30T17:44:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2024-01-21T18:46:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T23:46:30","slug":"the-lighthearted-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4583","title":{"rendered":"The Lighthearted Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lighthearted Quest<\/a><\/em> (1956) Ann Bridge<\/p>\n

\"Lighthearted-Quest\"<\/a>I picked up a bunch of books in this series when they were on sale, and then they sat, unread, while I read other things.<\/p>\n

The book started off well. It’s set post WWII, a time period I’m fond of due to Agatha Christie, and it was amusing.<\/p>\n

“Where a man\u2019s bank-account is, there shall his body be also, at least occasionally.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Where was I?” Mr. St John asked, suddenly lost in his own parentheses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And there were lots of fascinating tidbits that come from reading an historical written when it was a contemporary.<\/p>\n

(H)er Majesty however not only stepped ashore herself, but for good measure sent those royal midgets, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, up the Rock to see the monkeys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s strange for me to imagine Prince Charles as a child. <\/p>\n

And lots and lots of fascinating words I hardly every come across: strophe, cassant, voluble, quisling, saurian, ‘pansy’, ‘spiv’, trilby, saloon cars, confr\u00e9res.<\/p>\n

What a marvelous collections of words!<\/p>\n

But then, despite everything, the story just went on. And on. And on. I was doing little more than browsing the pages towards the end, looking for any important passages, reading those, and speeding along again.<\/p>\n

Which was really to bad, because as I said, I had initially enjoyed the story.<\/p>\n

So, I’ve got a bunch more of these, but I have no idea if I’ll read another one.
\nRating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Bloomsbury Reader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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It’s set post WWII, a time period I’m fond of due to Agatha Christie, and it was amusing. “Where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,190,33,8],"tags":[733,630],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british","category-cozy","category-historical","category-mystery","tag-1950s","tag-cold-war-era"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1bV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1254,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1254","url_meta":{"origin":4583,"position":0},"title":"Runaways: Rock Zombies","author":"Michelle","date":"July 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Runaways: Rock Zombies (2009) Terry Moore, Takeshi Miyazawa, Christiana Strain First things first: Wha? 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