"They Say in Heaven Love Comes First..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

I forgot Don Quixote and my history book, so I had to get an emergency book from the library to read while I was at the gym to-day; since The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf was out, preventing me from rereading it again, I got out one called 'I am Morgan le Fay'. Is v. interesting so far, with nothing embarrassing. So far a little formulaic, but not bad.

The one notable thing is that Morgause has thus far been described as shy, anxious, and by far the weaker of the sisters; at one point Morgan goes so far as to refer to her as a 'shy violet'.

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Which kind of made littlebetter go OH HA HA RIGHT MY MOM SHY VIOLET ARGHHHH and cling to fingersofleaf.

At any rate, I mean to see it through; apparently the author is also responsible for something called 'I am Mordred', and I am debating getting my hands on it. I still have a lot of Arthurian authors to look up; and I do need to finish both Don Quixote and Anna Karenina (and then Tom Jones and Of Human Bondage and The Scarlet Letter ahhhhgh).

Also? Mr. Dave Barry should really be aware that writing a prequel to an established classic like Peter Pan is probably a really, really bad idea, and the fact that he pulled it off once, with Peter and the Starcatchers, should be enough for him. I feel that writing a sequel to that prequel is pushing it (for some reason, I'm still planning to read the presequel, but still). Nngh. If this one is good he's going to have really lucked out. I hope he realises this.

And I finally got hold of the last Lemony Snicket book, yay! I need to steal it back from Waen, who has hold of it right now.

I also got out The Age of Chivalry, which is a shiny-looking non-fiction book about Arthurian legend; and several books on knights and castles just to get a basic idea of the geography (at first skimming through the one I couldn't find any mention of greaves at all, and I spent several breathless moments convinced I'd made them up). This should be a good thing.

Mmmmmm, books. ^_____^ To-morrow I will have a tonne of reading to do. Since I didn't read my one-hundred pages of Don Quixote to-day, I'll have two-hundred for to-morrow, plus sixty of history, plus finishing Morgan le Fay. Gleep. Also, still not finished with Rise of Silas Lapham, but since I'm reading it aloud to Waen as part of our American Lit course this year, it doesn't count.

Comments

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

XD NO FAIR. --NO not yet but I need to and I couldn't remember her name or I would have put 'MUST READ HER DAMMIT' in the post! ^^;;;

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

:P :P I think I read I am Morgan le Fay as well. There was a time when I read all the Arthurian stuff I could get my hands on. -Her books are amazing, OMG. There's a trilogy about the Round Table etc, and a Tristan and Iseult book. She's also written loads of historical fiction, but I've only read the Arthurians and, I think, two other books of hers.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Aha. And hee, that's--sort of what I do, but I have limits. I am not going anywhere the heck near Rosalind Miles, ohhhhh no. XD And oooo, okay. I must look out the Arthurians! ^__^ Do you happen to know the titles?

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

I keep seeing her books in the library, but they've never interested me much - too Sueish-looking. The first Arthurian book by Sutcliff (and in my opinion the best) is The Sword and the Circle, then The Light Beyond the Forest and The Road to Camlann. The Tristan and Iseult one is called just that. Do read them, they're so good. ^____^

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, yeah. They're. Um. I have no words for the rampant insanity that is those books. They make my soul hurt. So. Yes. I read part of one, and that was quite enough for meeee. And thank you! That's great. <333 I will either check them out or ILL them next time I am at the library. ^_^