Looking for books in all the wrong places
Jun. 8th, 2007 08:35 pmToday when I went into the lunchroom at work to get hot water for tea, I found that someone was trying to get rid of books by leaving them for grabs out of two Trader Joe's bags. Well, when it comes to books, I'm always eager to help.
9/10 of the time the people on my floor only ever leave out romance novels, so I wasn't all that hopeful, but I walked away with some good stuff. There's a book on haunted inns and hotels in the US, a novel called "Pompeii" by one Robert Harris, and a novel by Laurie King called "A Darker Place". Laurie King is a writer![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dmckilli and I have always liked; she's done a series of Sherlock Holmes fanfic novels. (I'm sorry, they're well written and all but they're FANFICS nonetheless!)
One curious item in there is a hardcover called "The Fasting Girl". In the 19th century in New York, people were fascinated by reports of a young woman who, following an accident in which she was dragged by a horse, took to her bed with visions, levitations, and the supposed inability to eat. Since this fits the profile of most Catholic stigmatic mystics to a T, I'm going to read this with a great deal of interest. There is a psycho-neurological explanation for this phenomenon and it's not all fraud, I'm sure.
There's also a book about a 19th century British woman who was the first person to sue for being put in a mental hospital, but I can't remember the name. I left it at work as reading material there.
9/10 of the time the people on my floor only ever leave out romance novels, so I wasn't all that hopeful, but I walked away with some good stuff. There's a book on haunted inns and hotels in the US, a novel called "Pompeii" by one Robert Harris, and a novel by Laurie King called "A Darker Place". Laurie King is a writer
dmckilli and I have always liked; she's done a series of Sherlock Holmes fanfic novels. (I'm sorry, they're well written and all but they're FANFICS nonetheless!)One curious item in there is a hardcover called "The Fasting Girl". In the 19th century in New York, people were fascinated by reports of a young woman who, following an accident in which she was dragged by a horse, took to her bed with visions, levitations, and the supposed inability to eat. Since this fits the profile of most Catholic stigmatic mystics to a T, I'm going to read this with a great deal of interest. There is a psycho-neurological explanation for this phenomenon and it's not all fraud, I'm sure.
There's also a book about a 19th century British woman who was the first person to sue for being put in a mental hospital, but I can't remember the name. I left it at work as reading material there.
