
Chat, I think I need more King Arthur books. 😂
Yes, I do know I need Oathbound.
Chat, I think I need more King Arthur books. 😂
Yes, I do know I need Oathbound.
Found twenty-one words in The Sword in the Stone.
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‘...and it is said that whoever can pull the magic sword out of the stone will be king of all England. But the last person any one thinks of is the Wart...‘
Book 1/The Once and Future King ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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9 hrs
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First book of October.
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I was looking for something magic, fairy tail-y and harry potter-y. I got 1000+ pages of repetitive writing, intrigues and incestuous sex scenes.
After lots of playing around with decisions and introductions of various books, it seems i‘ve committed myself to this book - my new morning read. Bring on Mallory.
The lovely Aubrey Beardsley frontispiece and title page of Beatrice Clay's retelling of Arthurian stories.
Although written for older children of the Edwardian era, and therefore removing certain "unsuitable" elements, it's not as moralistic as I'd feared it might be. Her afterword about knightly privilege being predicated on exploitation and enslavement of peasants is rather forward-thinking. 4.75 ?
This 1934 edition of Beatrice Clay's Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion is an Edwardian retelling of the main Arthurian stories. I've had it for decades, so it's time is come to be read!
Written for children, the first 1901 edition left out Morgan le Fay, what with their relationship being "complicated", I suppose, but this reprint of the 1905 edition incorporated Morgan in suitably bowdlerised form.
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Even worse score than last week. Only 4 lists to go, thank God! 🤣
Favorites:
√THINGS FALL APART
√THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING (which should count as 4 books, IMHO).
√TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
- Sarah Zettel's Camelot books
- Phyllis Ann Karr's Idylls of the Queen
- Cherith Baldry's Exiled from Camelot
- Patricia Terry & Samuel N. Rosenberg's Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles
- Jo Walton's Sulien books (kind of)
- Bernard Cornwell's The Winter King trilogy
And probably more that aren't popping into mind... 2d
More niche is Heinrich von dem Türlin's Diu Crône, which is good for Gawain lovers. 2d
Oh, and a fun one I remembered: Le Roman de Silence, 'cause it includes Merlin. There's a modern retelling, The Story of Silence, by Alex Myers -- I remember liking it. 1d