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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | John Steinbeck

I think this is a lovely picture. I might even read the book even though I'm ambivalent about Steinbeck.

Suet624 Great mug. 1mo

Therewillbebooks @Suet624 Thanks! They are available if you'd like one 1mo

Suet624 @Therewillbebooks I just might 1mo

Therewillbebooks @Suet624 Great! If you email me an address I'll get one in the mail. I'm at willbebooks@gmail.com 1mo

snapsnarlgrowl I‘m not in love with the book overall, but his intro to the book is one of my favorite things ever written about inspiring literacy! 1mo

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CrystalE02

Queen of Camelot | Nancy McKenzie

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This was a two book bind up. I enjoyed reading this book. I have always been interested in the Arthur and Guinevere story. I rated this book a 4 out of 5 stars.

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dabbe

The Mists of Avalon | Marion Zimmer Bradley

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Loved this one.

Suet624 Loved this one too. 2mo

Cuilin @Suet624 me too 💜 2mo

dabbe @Suet624 @Cuilin ... I can never get enough of the Arthurian legends. 💚💚💚 2mo

kspenmoll Me too! I think there may have been a sequel, not quite as good. 2mo

dabbe @kspenmoll Ooh, I'll have to look into that. 🤩 2mo

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bibliothecarivs

The Mystery of King Arthur | Elizabeth Jenkins

Recent birthday acquisitions:

📖 The Mystery of King Arthur by Elizabeth Jenkins
📖 The Arthurian Legends: An Illustrated Anthology, Selected and Introduced by Richard Barber
📖 Robin Hood and the White Cat

#UniteAgainstBookBans and #LetUtahRead

Ruthiella Happy Birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 2mo

bibliothecarivs @Ruthiella thanks! 2mo

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eeclayton

War Lord | Bernard Cornwell

My next 4 books for #52bookclub24
I loved Uhtred's last adventure (tagged), and I'll miss him a lot. More in the comments.

Kristy_K, LaraReads, KarenUK, Hooked_on_books, BarkingMadRead, Crazeedi, brittanyreads, Magpiegem, BookBelle84, Larkken, jenniferw88, julesG, Deblovestoread, MidnightBookGirl, Librarybelle, triplem80, Tove_Reads, Read4life, Bluebird, kwmg40, BarbaraBB, hissingpotatoes, Book_Lover95, TheAromaofBooks

eeclayton I enjoyed the story -- both stories -- a lot. The author\'s prologue was very original and intriguing, and his asides throughout the book were clever, although a bit tiring, too, at some points.

The Princess Bride

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eeclayton I didn\'t enjoy this one too much. The set-up felt far-fetched, and the first half of the book was rather boring. The second half (and especially the final chapters) had some unexpected twists that kept me guessing, but overall I\'m just glad I\'ve finished it.

Cards on the Table (Poirot)

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eeclayton It was a fascinating book about women\'s lives and relationships in 19th century China. Many aspects were compelling and devastating at the same time (footbinding, family hierarchy, a wife\'s duties), and it was interesting to see how women tried to cope.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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Librarybelle Great choices! 3mo

TheAromaofBooks The Princess Bride is one of the rare occasions where I prefer the movie to the book, but reading the book does give more background information/depth to the movie\'s story as well. I feel like when I read Cards on the Table I had to spend time looking up the rules of Bridge just to understand what was happening 😂 3mo

eeclayton @Librarybelle thanks 🙂 3mo

eeclayton @TheAromaofBooks I\'ve never seen The Princess Bride movie, I\'ll put it on my to-be-seen list! 3mo

TheAromaofBooks It\'s a bit of a cult classic... I\'ve been watching it long enough that my parents would skip over the Fire Swamp and Pit of Despair scenes because they thought I was too young to watch those bits 😂 If you even kind of enjoyed the book, I think you\'ll really like the movie. 3mo

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Graywacke

Roman de Silence | Sarah Roche-Mahdi, Heldris (de Cornu�lle.)

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🤫 don‘t wake Nikki.

This is a delightful 13-century Arthurian romance with a female knight, Silence, forced to hide her identity and act a man. Jealous kings, slain dragons, female healers and a wild-man version of Merlin. It was discovered in 1911, a single manuscript in Old French verse in a box marked “old papers - no value”.

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 7mo

Leftcoastzen 👏😻 7mo

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Dilara

Roman de Silence | Sarah Roche-Mahdi, Heldris (de Cornu�lle.)

Romance written in the 12-13th cent.
Silence is a girl brought up disguised as a boy so she could be her parents' heir. Of course, they are the most valiant, accomplished & virtuous person ever 😁
The King of England likes & values them, but after they reject the Queen's advances, she turns against them & tribulations start.
I thought their gender of birth would be uncovered in battle, as per trope, but no: something stranger & funnier happens 👏

Dilara It's short and not without humour, and very much inspired by Le roman de la rose and Arthurian lore. Just like in Le roman de la rose, there is a lot of casual of misogyny & reflections on the Nature vs Culture debate.
The original is in Old French octosyllabic verse; the version I read is in modern French prose that still retains a medieval flavour.

Picture is a miniature of Joan of Arc, so a couple of centuries later than the book

The Romance of the Rose

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Graywacke Fantastic! I thoroughly enjoyed the English prose translation. But the misogyny was striking. 7mo

Dilara @Graywacke I enjoyed it too! The misogyny was inevitable, given the date of writing, but at least, we weren't repeatedly hit over the head with it like we were in Le roman de la rose 😁 7mo

Graywacke @Dilara ha! True. Have you read the Lais of Mary of France? Similar style (in English prose translation) 7mo

Dilara @Graywacke I read a couple and I can see the similarities. I even read one translated into English verse in The Penguin Book of Women Poets 😁 (Chievrefueil/Chèvrefeuille, or “honeysuckle“ in modern English, translated literally as “Goat's-leaf“ in the version I read). I mean to read them all at some point 😚

“Wrathful was King Mark,
Angry with Tristan his nephew,
Banished him from the realm
For the love he bore the Queen.“

The Penguin Book of Women Poets

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LiteraryChanteuse

Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle: The First of the Tristan and Isolde Novels | Rosalind Miles

“To find a goddess in a woman is the life work of a man. But every man seeks the woman of the dream, and only the best of men finds what he seeks.”

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Dilara

Roman de Silence | Sarah Roche-Mahdi, Heldris (de Cornu�lle.)

So far:
- Hébain married the King of Norway's daughter
- Cador slayed the dragon terrorising Winchester, and earned the right to marry the maid of his choosing
- Eufémie cured Cador's illness and earned the right to marry the man of her choosing
- You guessed it: Cador and Eufémie married each other
- Eufémie gave birth to a girl, but they announced a boy - and therefore heir - to the world
Medieval romances FTW!
I'll stop bc spoilers 😋

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