Welcome to Litsy!

And my #bookhaul from the used book sale. Mostly mass markets in a range of genres: some sff, some hist fic, some canlit, and classics. A few trade paperbacks, very much looking forward to the Heyer and another Helen Humphreys.
So very pleased to add these to my shelves! (Finding space on said shelves is, of course, another matter entirely...)

Anybody seen the excellent LARPing documentary Darkon? I reckon I‘ll rewatch it since I dug it out of the closet for this picture.

It pairs well with The Folk of the Air which was kind of a fantasy about proto-LARPers in the 1970s.

Come to think of it, it would also go well with George “Night of the Living Dead” Romero‘s Motorcycle Renaissance Fair movie, Knight Riders.

Wandering lute player Joe Farrell winds up in Avicenna, California, where he falls in with an old friend, an old love, and a medieval re-enactment society toying with very real ancient magics.

This is widely considered to be Beagle‘s weakest book, even by Beagle himself. He‘s even toyed with the idea of a complete rewrite in recent years. It‘s a beautifully written shaggy mess of a book, but Beagle on a bad day is still worth 10 mediocre writers.

“There is nothing like you anywhere among all the stones in the sky, do you realize that? You are the wonder of the cosmos, possibly for embarrassing reasons, but anyway a wonder.”

Image from the front yard this morning. Quote from #currentread

“Nicholas Bonner laughed outright - if you heard that sound enough times some damn thing would break, maybe not your heart, but something - while Aiffe blushed in patches like poison oak.”

#CurrentRead

A great #dedication. One expects nothing less from Beagle.

#Starting