I promised myself I wouldn't complain about anything on this trip, because I feel very lucky. So that saves me from complaining about being sleepy while reading today, and my legs being tired from biking. And it frees up space to blog about what I read today.
I'm reading school stories, as I do, but today they were all evangelical Methodist ones from between 1840 and 1870. I usually don't read school stories like those! Anyway, in one, our heroine is tempted into bad behavior by a classmate. They - gasp! - steal a few apples. Let me say that again: it's a Christian book, and the heroine is tempted by the apple. Remarkably, despite the Bible verses in the footnotes, the anonymous author lets this one sail right on by, choosing some boring New Testament reference to good behavior instead of the blindingly obvious, hello!, reference to Eve and the apple. Also, it's a lot of fuss about a few apples.
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