Wednesday Reading Meme

[snowynight]

Recently Finished:

The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic by Elizabeth Bisland

I think it's interesting how the essays straddle the line of private thought and publicized opinion. While I mat not agree with her, she clearly put a lot of thoughts into the topics.

Currently Reading

The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett: Written by the author of the Secret Garden and A Little Princess, this belongs to a Ruritanian romance genre, with adventure and restoration of monarchy in fictional countries. The titular kid protagonist, Marco is trained from birth by his father for helping his fictional homeland, Samavia, befriended a Rat, a fellow young Samavian patriot and embarked on an adventure.

I know the writer meant a loving father and son relationship between Marco and his father, but it gives me pause when Marco's father said things to him like this: 

"Comrade," he said, "you don't know how much I love you—and what reason there is that we should love each other! You don't know how I have been watching you, and thanking God each year that here grew a man for Samavia. That I know you are—a MAN, though you have lived but twelve years.(... )"

It feels weirdly intense. 

Comments

[muccamukk]

Someone on my flist kickstarted Lost Prince as a fandom, so I read the book in aid of that, but it was like REALLY intense, and had too much of FHB's weird Christian Science stuff, and weird ableism, so it didn't stick. I did find some of the h/c nice though.

[snowynight]

I have just read 12 chapters, but it's getting too intense.

Rat is jealous how others can spent time with Marco's father. Then Marco told him that he nearly always thought of his father because he was the best thought himself.

It's ridiculously easy to think of dark manipulative fic idea for this book.