Taking a Week off

My plans for today included participating in Claire and Verity’s Persephone Reading Weekend with a review of The Making of a Marchioness, which I finished yesterday and about which I have a lot to say. Sadly, this plan was thwarted when I woke up unable to swallow and with a 39º fever. (Yes, again. I have no idea what’s up with me this year. I’d blame the English weather, but it was actually pretty warm this past week).

I feel that if I were to try and review the book anyway, my post would amount to something along the lines of “Book…good…you…should…read”. Frances Hodgson Burnett deserves a little better than that, so though I did join Persephone Reading Weekend by reading my post will have to be a belated one.

I’m going to devote the rest of today to staying in bed and consuming a whole lot of lemon and ginger tea, while hoping that this brain fog will eventually lift and I’ll be able to edit down an essay that is due on Wednesday. I really hope I’ll feel better tomorrow, both because I don’t want to have to miss school and because I have tickets to see A Doll’s House in the evening. A Doll’s House is the March choice for the Year of Feminist Classics, so the timing couldn’t be more perfect. I would absolutely hate to miss it, so please keep your fingers crossed for me.

I’m taking the whole week off blogging because in between being ill, having essays to finish, and preparing for my upcoming trip to Ireland next weekend, it seems like the wisest course of action. I’ll see you sometime on the second week of March. To those of you taking part in World Book Night next Saturday, have a wonderful time! I might have been one of you if not for my inability to remember dates.


…and now back to bed before my head explodes.