by Laurie Lee
Another book I usually wouldn\’t mention, since I never got totally invested in reading it. But it was for the TBR Challenge, so I feel I ought to say something about it. I\’ve actually had two different copies of The Edge of Day in my library- before we moved across the country I had an old trade paperback copy with a stiff cover. I dipped into it a few times, curious and intrigued by the descriptions from a toddler\’s perspective in the first few pages, walking through an overgrown garden that was like an infested jungle to him, full of buzzing insects and fears… I never read any more, and it got weeded out when I had to downsize my library for moving. Just a few months ago I found it again, at a discard sale- different binding and cover art, but instantly recognized it as a book I\’d once owned and lost- so I couldn\’t help picking it up again. But these past few days my time spent reading it has been rather dull. The Edge of Day (also published under the title Cider with Rosie) is a quiet, musing kind of book. It describes the author\’s youth in a small English village, being tended by his many older sisters, going to a one-room schoolhouse… I\’ve liked other books about boyhood experiences (Call It Sleep) or even rural schoolhouses (The Thread That Runs So True) but this one just wasn\’t grabbing my attention. So again, I\’m moving on.
This book was in my list for the TBR Challenge. I\’ve completed eight, given up on two, and have two more to read before I start picking through my alternate stack.
Abandoned 276 pages, 1959