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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. 2w

Cuilin @Suet624 me too 💜 2w

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

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

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

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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

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Ruthiella Happy Birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 4w

bibliothecarivs @Ruthiella thanks! 4w

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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.

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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! 1mo

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 😂 1mo

eeclayton @Librarybelle thanks 🙂 1mo

eeclayton @TheAromaofBooks I\'ve never seen The Princess Bride movie, I\'ll put it on my to-be-seen list! 1mo

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. 1mo

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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 🖤🐾🖤 5mo

Leftcoastzen 👏😻 5mo

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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. 6mo

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 😁 6mo

Graywacke @Dilara ha! True. Have you read the Lais of Mary of France? Similar style (in English prose translation) 6mo

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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Graywacke

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

Now that I‘ve finished Chaucer, I‘ve made the Roman de Silence my morning book. This is a 13th century Old French Arthurian romance in verse. And so far, in translation, it reads a lot like the Lais of Marie de France - that is to say, light and charming.

Texreader 🐈‍⬛❤️ 6mo

Suet624 Impressive 6mo

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 #lebeauchat 6mo

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Graywacke @Texreader @dabbe she would thank you but, well, she has that goddess attitude cat thing (edited) 6mo

Graywacke @Suet624 it‘s easy, fun reading. 🙂 6mo

Dilara Ooh, I have seen that Silence is in my anthology of medieval love and chivalry writings but I haven't read it yet! Looking forward to your opinion on it 😁 6mo

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