The Friday Five spring forward....

[magnetic_pole]

First and most importantly, happy birthday, write_out! Two photos to brighten your day:





And a springtime set of questions courtesy of thefridayfive

1. What is your least favorite part of Spring?
Precipitation. Last week I got caught in a downpour with graupel sans umbrella (because I'm optimistic and foolish like that). What's that? You hadn't heard of graupel? Me, neither. Wasn't aware such a thing existed until it was dumped out of the sky on my head. *sigh*

2. What is your most favorite part of Spring?
Longer days! It's such a relief to have a bit more sun in the evenings.

3. What is the latest good book you've read?
Hm. I'm just starting this: Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. Hopes are high. I'll let you know how it goes.

4. What are your plans for this weekend?
The second half of the grading I was complaining about last week.

5. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?
Only qualitative analysis 'round these parts, thank you!

What's a good book you've read recently, flist?

Comments

[ancientreader]

The answer to #5 is, obviously, as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck.

I recently finished Kate Atkinson's A God in Ruins, which I loved although why I always forget that every Kate Atkinson book has a sting in the tail I don't know, and have started Andrew Delbanco's new book, The War Before the War, which is a history of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 (and of fugitive slave law in general). I might have expected it to be dry (history of a law, hm) except that I heard Delbanco interviewed about it on NPR. It's riveting.

ETA: I'm a little jealous of your experience of this uncommon meteorological phenomenon!

[magnetic_pole]

Both these books sound great! I'm somehow out of the habit of reading much fiction, so I'll bookmark the Kate Atkinson for a later date, but I'm going to take a look at the Andrew Delbanco soon. What are laws but possible master plots that come to life in their subverting?

Ha! I should have enjoyed it more myself, but I was carrying a canvas bag of student papers that I was overly worried about. M.

[ancientreader]

What are laws but possible master plots that come to life in their subverting?

Or in a close reading of their origins and implications. If you read the Delbanco I would love to know what you think.