Read-a-thon - A new post!
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wilderthanA new post, cleverly timed so I can start it with a picture, like the first!
17:14: Still reading Nennius. And for the hour five mini-challenge, here is a photo of my bookshelves -- awkwardly taken balanced on top of things on my desk, but showing at least some of all my shelves!
Most of my books are in ebook form or back at my parents' place, though. Booo.
(Could also cheat, and say look at my goodreads shelves.)
Back to Nennius now.
17:51: Finished reading Nennius. Brief thoughts here. Mostly a review of the edition, more than anything else.
Not sure what I'm going to read next. Oh, no, I do know -- I'll finish the alliterative Morte Arthure. I'm on page 82 of 168.
18:30: Rather enjoying the Morte Arthure, though I'm missing Strictly Come Dancing. (I watch it so I can listen to my ballroom dancer housemate mocking it.)
For the challenge, which is microfiction -- which is kind of my thing -- I offer this, without knowing exactly where it came from:
"Vampire, hah. Vampires don't demand much. Only your blood, only your life. I ask for much more. No -- I don't ask, do I? I just take. I'll take from you, I'll take every single thing you have. I'll take the memory of your mother's hair, I'll take the memory of your father's touch, I'll take the first time you truly really wanted someone. Good and bad, I'll make it mine, easy. I don't even have to take it: you'll give it to me, willingly, surrender it all and then, when everything's gone, you'll wish you could have given me more."
19:16: Time for dinner! I won't stop for long, but I will have to stop -- my housemates are too talkative for me to read while we eat.
My answer to the Armchair Travelling mini-challenge is... hmmm. I mostly read fantasy, so I want to visit places I can only visit through the pages of books. Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea, for example. And Narnia. I'd still give a right arm (not necessarily mine) to go to Narnia.
Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising always makes me want to go up to North Wales, visit the mountain, Cader Idris, and all the places where the children go.
Arthurian literature in general makes me want to go everywhere, all over Britain, to all the Arthurian sites. Stonehenge is apparently a disappointment, but I'd still like to see it.
20:02: Just finished the alliterative Morte Arthure. Will probably now read the stanzaic poem in the same volume. Review here.
For the characters I love to hate mini-challenge, here is my list:
1. The Rider. (From Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising.)
2. Lancelot. (Any Arthurian literature. I know he's not traditionally considered a villain, but consider what he does.)
3. Richard III. (As seen in Shakespeare's play.)
4. Regal. (From Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy. Mind you, given some of the views she's expressed in the past, e.g. in her rants against fanfiction and medicating mental illness, maybe she herself belongs in this list for me...)
5. Odysseus. (Definitely not a traditional answer. But he is a bit of a jerk. I guess you could say I love and hate him, more than love to hate him.)
21:04: Reading the stanzaic Le Morte Arthur now. I really like it, so far.
22:10: Finished reading the stanzaic Le Morte Arthur. Review is here. Further updates will come in a new post, but for now I'm going to go to the loo, grab a drink, and figure out what to read next!
17:14: Still reading Nennius. And for the hour five mini-challenge, here is a photo of my bookshelves -- awkwardly taken balanced on top of things on my desk, but showing at least some of all my shelves!
Most of my books are in ebook form or back at my parents' place, though. Booo.
(Could also cheat, and say look at my goodreads shelves.)
Back to Nennius now.
17:51: Finished reading Nennius. Brief thoughts here. Mostly a review of the edition, more than anything else.
Not sure what I'm going to read next. Oh, no, I do know -- I'll finish the alliterative Morte Arthure. I'm on page 82 of 168.
18:30: Rather enjoying the Morte Arthure, though I'm missing Strictly Come Dancing. (I watch it so I can listen to my ballroom dancer housemate mocking it.)
For the challenge, which is microfiction -- which is kind of my thing -- I offer this, without knowing exactly where it came from:
"Vampire, hah. Vampires don't demand much. Only your blood, only your life. I ask for much more. No -- I don't ask, do I? I just take. I'll take from you, I'll take every single thing you have. I'll take the memory of your mother's hair, I'll take the memory of your father's touch, I'll take the first time you truly really wanted someone. Good and bad, I'll make it mine, easy. I don't even have to take it: you'll give it to me, willingly, surrender it all and then, when everything's gone, you'll wish you could have given me more."
19:16: Time for dinner! I won't stop for long, but I will have to stop -- my housemates are too talkative for me to read while we eat.
My answer to the Armchair Travelling mini-challenge is... hmmm. I mostly read fantasy, so I want to visit places I can only visit through the pages of books. Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea, for example. And Narnia. I'd still give a right arm (not necessarily mine) to go to Narnia.
Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising always makes me want to go up to North Wales, visit the mountain, Cader Idris, and all the places where the children go.
Arthurian literature in general makes me want to go everywhere, all over Britain, to all the Arthurian sites. Stonehenge is apparently a disappointment, but I'd still like to see it.
20:02: Just finished the alliterative Morte Arthure. Will probably now read the stanzaic poem in the same volume. Review here.
For the characters I love to hate mini-challenge, here is my list:
1. The Rider. (From Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising.)
2. Lancelot. (Any Arthurian literature. I know he's not traditionally considered a villain, but consider what he does.)
3. Richard III. (As seen in Shakespeare's play.)
4. Regal. (From Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy. Mind you, given some of the views she's expressed in the past, e.g. in her rants against fanfiction and medicating mental illness, maybe she herself belongs in this list for me...)
5. Odysseus. (Definitely not a traditional answer. But he is a bit of a jerk. I guess you could say I love and hate him, more than love to hate him.)
21:04: Reading the stanzaic Le Morte Arthur now. I really like it, so far.
22:10: Finished reading the stanzaic Le Morte Arthur. Review is here. Further updates will come in a new post, but for now I'm going to go to the loo, grab a drink, and figure out what to read next!
