addendum to previous post

[truepenny]

I forgot four books!


The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory's Morte d'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. It's the Rackham illustrations that are the real selling point on this one. It's also just a very pretty book.

Weston, Jessie L. From Ritual to Romance.


Boland, Eavan. Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time.

Brown, Karen McCarthy. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn.


There. Much better.

Comments

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

That was the first book I read by Boland. I don't think anything else of hers has ever had quite the same impact on me.

Have you read?

[opalturtle.livejournal.com]

Stephen R. Lawhead's Arthurian books? They're all good except Grail. He should've quit while he was ahead on the fourth one. Avalon is about the return of Arthur and it's good.

Alice Borchard wrote Dragon Queen. It's a different take on Guinevere, but I liked it. Just took a little getting used to.

Re: Have you read?

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

Um. I looked through the first volume of Borchardt and found werewolves. I'm good with werewolves generally, but I'm not sure why they'd need to be in post-Roman Britain.... Does she integrate them (internal worldbuilding consistency), or are they kind of there? Just curious.

yup

[opalturtle.livejournal.com]

She integrates them. It's really interesting the way she put werewolves into her stories. I've actually never been too partial to werewolf tales, but I really like these.

Re: Have you read?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I read The Mists of Avalon at precisely the wrong moment and have had an aversion to Arthurian retellings ever since. (Partial exception for Phyllis Ann Karr's The Idylls of the Queen because it's so very odd and clever.) I tend to prefer books that use Arthurian tropes and themes over books that retell the story.

It's a personal failing.

Haven't read that one

[opalturtle.livejournal.com]

I'll have to find it one of these days.

That being the case you'd probably like Lawhead's The Song of Albion series. There's hints of Arthurian legend in there and lots of other really cool stuff. Those are the ones of his I read first, then I went to the Pendragon Cycle. I haven't read anything of his I don't like yet - except for Grail.

[larryhammer]

A Rackham Round Table? Oooooo.

---L.

[heresluck]

This is what I get for commenting before I catch up. I should've known you wouldn't leave out a book. *g*