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azdesertroseBecause I haven't posted about books in a while... :)
I just re-read Kushiel's Dart for about the third time; it gets better with re-reads. Now I can hardly believe I found it tough going in the first half on the first reading. Jen is the one who made me read it. She even told me to keep at it through the information-dense first half of the book.
I've been trying to get Nicholas to read Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children series, and he said a friend of his recommended the Kushiel books to him. The Earth's Children books are also rather information-dense but worth it. I finally retired my extremely battered paperback copies of The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of Horses in favor of used-but-still-nice hardcover copies, so I'm willing to let other people read them again. I wouldn't let anybody read those for years purely due to my copies literally falling apart.
Speaking of books I love so much my copy is falling apart, I need to get another copy of Anya Seton's Katherine, about Lady Katherine (de Roet) Swynford (Plantagenet), commonly known as Katherine Swynford (which is the name she bore for most of her life; de Roet was her maiden name, and Plantagenet her second married name). My favorite time and place in history, mid 1300's England, and the historical personage I named my SCA persona for. (I also took Katherine as my SCA name in honor of Katherine Kurtz of Deryni, Adept, and Templar fame.) But Katherine, originally published in 1952, has recently been republished, and I need to get one of the republication copies. It holds the honor of being the only romance novel I found because of a college professor. My Shakespeare professor pointed us toward it, and I found a battered copy in the 50-cent bin at the used book shop.
I just re-read Kushiel's Dart for about the third time; it gets better with re-reads. Now I can hardly believe I found it tough going in the first half on the first reading. Jen is the one who made me read it. She even told me to keep at it through the information-dense first half of the book.
I've been trying to get Nicholas to read Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children series, and he said a friend of his recommended the Kushiel books to him. The Earth's Children books are also rather information-dense but worth it. I finally retired my extremely battered paperback copies of The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of Horses in favor of used-but-still-nice hardcover copies, so I'm willing to let other people read them again. I wouldn't let anybody read those for years purely due to my copies literally falling apart.
Speaking of books I love so much my copy is falling apart, I need to get another copy of Anya Seton's Katherine, about Lady Katherine (de Roet) Swynford (Plantagenet), commonly known as Katherine Swynford (which is the name she bore for most of her life; de Roet was her maiden name, and Plantagenet her second married name). My favorite time and place in history, mid 1300's England, and the historical personage I named my SCA persona for. (I also took Katherine as my SCA name in honor of Katherine Kurtz of Deryni, Adept, and Templar fame.) But Katherine, originally published in 1952, has recently been republished, and I need to get one of the republication copies. It holds the honor of being the only romance novel I found because of a college professor. My Shakespeare professor pointed us toward it, and I found a battered copy in the 50-cent bin at the used book shop.
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Date: 2008-12-18 06:05 pm (UTC)