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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'.

...

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.

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Ooh. I like I Am Mordred. The ending is very sad. I haven't read the Morgan one, though.

Really? ^___^ --Well, come on, how could it not be? It's the kids? The Morgan one is okay so far!

I read I Am Mordred! I don't remember if it was good though. It was a while ago. Have you read Rosemary Sutcliff's Arthurian books? I love them.

You read Peter and the Starcatchers? How was it? I've been avoiding it, having heard not-so-good things. But hey, maybe it's still better than that stupid book about Captain Hook's childhood. Or the stupid "official" sequel which hurt my soul. Whyyyyyy can no one get Peter Pan canon right? :(

(And yay, Don Quixote! I need to reread that one of these days...)

This is true! But it kind of does a different twist at the end and it seriously made me cry the first time through because god, poor Mordred. I even got a muse out of it, but haven't found a place for her.

It was actually okay! I kept squeeing because everything kept neatly fitting in, and I love it when that happens. Admittedly, there was a love interest type person, but she went away in the end with no love happening (except that she comes back in the seprequel, WHAT is up with THAT there is no way that can be good), and--it worked. For, you know, being a totally serious prequel to a pretty non-serious and whacked-out book. But he was definitely respecting the canon.

(It is awesome and insane. XD)

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! ^^;;;

Oooo. Well, then. <3 That's endorsement enough for me.

Perhaps I shall try it, then! It would be tough to be worse than ickle!Hook randomly nicknaming his friend "Jolly Roger" and then randomly naming his ship after the friend. And also not being weirded out by the color of his blood. :P

(Have you gotten to the second half yet? Something in there is my favorite part, but I wouldn't want to give anything away... *g* And heeeey, you'd better stop reading all these books about knights, or your brains will dry up and you'll go insane!)

: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.

The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf is, hands-down, my favorite Gerald Morris book! ♥

XD MINE TOO.

I think it's worth a try! Then you can wail at me for everything that's wrong. :D

(I'm exactly at the beginning. Ooooo, I can't wait to find out...! (I can't wait for Aldonza. ^^) And yes, really. Uh-oh. But I don't read any of the ones the priest burned?

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?

!!!!! I think I love you 18% more now.

It's a date! Er, after I finish all these other books I'm supposed to be reading, that is. *g*

(Aldonza isn't in the book nearly as much as she is in the musical, alas. But I can forgive the musical its non-canon-ness because she's such a great role. - Oh, well, that's okay, then! Just stay away from windmills.)

XD You so do not.

Gary says hi, by the way. :D And that you are a non-scary female.

Naturally. XD

(I knoww, I did notice that she's in there for about, what, two chapters? But the musical--and the movie, too; I've seen the movie, but only heard the musical--really seems to romanticafy the whole story. I mean, the novel is like this big elaborate farce, and the film is--pretty serious. Does it seem that way to you? --Deal. XD)

(The movie of the musical, or a different movie? I can't speak with much authority about the book, having not read it for... five years? But I think the musical does feel more serious. It makes Don Quixote and his delusions really matter to people other than himself. Plus the whole thing with Cervantes acting out the story in jail - the Spanish Inquisition adds automatic seriosity. *g*)

. . . I've read both I Am Mordred and I Am Morgan Lefay and I was all excited to babble about them and then I realized I do not remember a thing! XD

Meaning this comment is entirely pointless. But, um. It happens sometimes. >.>

:D

I read the second one too -- after talking to

canadabear, actually -- and yeah, it's pretty good. It's been ages since I read the Morgan one.

Ickle!Meek!Morgause makes me die a little too. XD

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. ^____^

I am far too lazy to make it through Anna Karenina, Tom Jones, and Of Human Bondage, so I fully expect to live my literary existence vicariously through you. ;-) The Scarlet Letter, however, is fabulous.

...OPST :OEJT:ZJRE;kjv;LW THAT BOOK THAT BOOK THAT AWFUL BOOK

I read - well, began - that awful, awful thing. My sister borrowed it from a friend of hers, with awful taste in literature frankly, which should've warned me, BUT ANYWAY, omg Arthurian YA chicklit, but where was I? Oh yeah, I laughed the whole way through ... chapter one. Since I couldn't finish it. XD

I really need to read Anna Karenina, though. It's one of my mother's favorite books, and I have yet to read it. D: But I did finally read Sense & Sensibility the whole way through. ^___^;; I hadn't even realized that I'd never finished it! But meehhh. Still don't like it as much as most of her others (though always better than Mansfield Park), but hey, read it, anyway.

But ahahahahaha I Am Morgan le Fay. Yeah.

----WAIT.

Amendment.

It's possible that it was I Am Mordred that I read. I really, really can't remember that well. (And like I said, I didn't read much.)

....but I think it was Morgan. But just in case, amendment. ^^;

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