100 Things Post #7: Victorian People and Ideas by Richard D. Altick

Josh is doing well; they're still pumping him full of Heparin, and he seems to be having less trouble breathing now. I have pretty much stopped freaking out that he's going to drop dead (yes, that is how my brain works, thank you LOL) and moved on to the he's going to be fine even if it takes awhile to get there portion of the proceedings. Blanket thanks for all the hand-holding, well-wishes, and prayers. Y'all are my support network, and I appreciate your friendship more than I can say.

This hospital is much quieter than the one we were in last week AND it has a full length couch for me to sleep on! We both got about 6 hours of sleep last night. It's a hospital miracle!

In other news, sholio has crawled ahead of me in our geriatric race to the finish on the 100 Things Challenge, so I'd better update.

Victorian People and Ideas is an oldie but a goodie (which is true of a lot of the scholarship on the Victorian era; while some of it is dated, a fair amount of those works are still relevant and interesting). Altick's work is very accessible; I would totally assign this book in a junior or senior undergraduate seminar. I think it would also be a good read for a casual reader interested in England in the nineteenth century.