"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

[bewareofitalics]

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!)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

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?

[bewareofitalics]

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.)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

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)

[bewareofitalics]

(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*)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

(the main movie that isn't the musical, I think. But yes, it seemed that way to me! Because in the book everyone is like OMG THIS IS HILARIOUS! LET'S PLAY WITH THE IDIOT GUY! And--dude, seriously? I didn't realise that.)

[bewareofitalics]

(I've only seen the musical one. Which is pretty bad, unfortunately - they should have gotten actual singers, or at least dubbed the actors. :P And yep! That's why it starts with "I shall impersonate a man." Cervantes is thrown into prison for trying to collect taxes from a church, or something, and he just so happens to have his manuscript with him, and the other prisoners are going to destroy it, so he acts it out (with the help of his servant and the other prisoners) to prove that it's worthy. Something like that, anyway. It's been a few years since I saw it on Broadway.)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

(oooh, dear. And--aha. Well, then. XD For heaven's sake. It sounds like something Cervantes would do, based on his total attention-whoring throughout the book.)

[bewareofitalics]

(And then of course he ends up touching everyone's hearts and making them believe in impossible dreams. :D)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

(Naturally. XD)

[bewareofitalics]

(And then he gets sent off to face the Inquisition, but I assume that goes all right, because his book did get published, after all. I hear there was even a musical made of it!)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

(...*dies*)

[bewareofitalics]

(...*revives?* Have you finished the book yet? And have you seen my latest music spam? :D)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

(Yes and yes!)

[bewareofitalics]

(So, the part where Don Quixote complains about Don Quixote fanfic? Is it not awesome? :D)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

(XD Again YES omg.)