While I was in England, I finished Orson Scott Card’s novel Enchantment which has time-bending, a sleeping princess, linguistics, Baba Yaga, Russian politics, Jewish identity, and lost medieval kingdoms. Card certainly did he research into Proppian structural analysis of Russian fairy tales, synchronic development of folktales and languages, and medieval history. Quite an enjoyable book to read again after 20 years. I remember reading it the first time when we first moved to Philly and the children were quite little and every week we would trundle to the library for them to get out more books.

Then because we were in Wales and spent several days in what was the medieval principality of Gwyenned and visiting all the castles of Llewelyn Fawr, I reread Sharon Kay Penman’s book Here Be Dragons. 

Over the last week and a half, I have finished the first two Harry Potter books: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Now I am going to take a break from HP and read a book we required as summer reading for the students. Only a couple more weeks before school starts so I better get going!