I cant decide what to read this Pennsic. What's on your book list? I'm thinking I might take The Canterbury Tales. I've still never read it all the way through. Now that the Harry Potter series is over, I'm at a lost...
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07/16Looks like this year it will be "to stir a magic Caldron"
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07/16I liked "to stir a magic Caldron", but after reading three or four Ravenwolf books they're pretty much all the same. If you are interested in novels, I'd recommend "The Fifth Sacred Thing" or "Walking to Mercury" by Starhawk.
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07/16I stopped at a used book store a few weeks ago & bought "Canterbury Tales" tp tale tp {emmsoc/
. At home, I'm reading "The Knight" by Richard Barber. It's good factually, which most books about knighthood//chvalry come from a romantic view. I'm considering taking it with me too, but it's very old & some pages are falling out.
I'm taking along "Life in a Castle" by Frances and Joseph Gies for a friend. Maybe "Alfred the Great" (can't remember author) for someone else. -
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07/17"Life in a Castle" looks interesting. How factual is "The Knight"? It sounds a bit dry.
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07/16The Da Vinci Code. (I know. I'm late.)
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07/16"Angels and Demons" is better than the DaVinci Code in my opinion.
I'm re-reading the Pern books. Got through the first three, now I'm on the Harper Hall Trilogy. Will be done with that before Pennsic though and move onto the rest of the books. Except the one about dolphins. That was just silly. The other book I'm going to take is "Twelve Diseases that Changed our World" although I'm not teaching Micro next semester. -
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07/16I liked "Angels and Demons" but I thought it was a tad more gory then it needed to be. I admit, I liked DaVinci better of the two. Less roasting people alive.
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07/16When I get the chance to read, I'm still on a bodice ripper by historical author Kathleen Woodiwiss. Don't remember the name of it but they are all similar.
Thanks for the reminder that I better pick another book or two to take with me.
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07/16So Fearg and I were just talking over the possibility of hosting a book exchange. We would have a tub with books that we no longer want. Ya'll come by with books you're finished. Leave a book, take a book. And if you want a book, but dont have one to leave, give a holler and we'll chat about options. I was also thinking about throwing some bookcrossing books in as well ( www.bookcrossing.com/ ). Would anyone be interested? The last thing I want to do is drag a tub of books across the state just to drag the same ones back again. -
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07/16I am a big fan of the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. It had fighting, bodise ripping stem sessions, honor, men in kilts (who can resist those), and romance to boot. It is an awesome series. Or the Clan of the Cave Bear series that is another good one. The first one is slow but still a great read. JMHO.
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07/16Book swap is a great idea, no idea if I'll partake myself, but I like the idea.
Currently, Assassin's Quest. So far, I liked the second book in this trilogy the most (by Robin Hobb.) It'll be done by Pennsic though, so it's either:
A Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia or
Guards! Guards! by Pratchett
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07/16reading the Atlantean trilogy by Jan Siegel, "Prospero's Children", "Dragon Charmer", "Witch Queen"....I really like them and am hoping she writes more.
Another good one is "Firethorn" by Sarah Micklem
Personally I liked Angels and Demons a bit more than Davinci Code....but all in all I enjoyed both of them
"In the Company of the Cortesean" by Sarah Dunat
"Birth of Venus" by Sarah Dunat
"The Unicorn Tapestry" by Tracy Chevalier
"A Song For Arabonne" by Guy Gavriel Kay
"The Lions of Al Rassan" by Guy Gavriel Kay ***I especially liked this one...i think it is one of his best
"Sailing to Sarentium" by Guy Gavriel Kay
"Lord of Emperors" by Guy Gavriel Kay
"Tigana" by Guy Gavriel Kay
these are all books I have in my personal library in hard back ( cause I read them so often as they are all favorites of mine and would definitely recommend any one of them as a Pennsic read ( since we don't have another Harry Potter to trot through this year!) -
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07/16Guy Gavriel Kay is my all time favorite author EVER! "The Lions of Al Rassan" is also my favorite of his. He published a new book a couple of years ago- "Isabel" or "Isa...something" but my local library doesn't have it and I'm looking for it in paperback. I guess it's supposed to be more modern so it will be interesting (for those of you who don't know, Guy Kay usually writes books that are fiction set in fantasy worlds, but the worlds are based on real time periods/countries. For example, "A Song for Arabonne" is based off of 14th/15th C. France, with troubadors and courtly love. Each one is different but you can find reference to other settings he's done in his books) -
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07/16Lord of Emperors and Sailing to Sarentium are based on the Byzantine empire.......loosly mimicing Constantinople....but with elements of the Roman Empire for flavor ( chariot races, and the "factions" with colors to identify them)....and the Lions of Al Rassan is kind of based on late 1400s Spain. "Tigana encompases elements of all of these without being as direct a parallel for any one specific culture or locale -
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07/16Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson. I always try to re-read some Spider Robinson before I set up the bar. It gets me in the right frame of mind.
Great idea on the book exchange. I will admit that I don't read much at Pennsic but what a great idea to trade books at the war and get ideas for new authors to start exploring. Bravo, if you build it, I will come.
Yours in Service,
Gabriel
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07/17I think that "Tigana" is loosely based on the city states of Italy- particularly the wedding the sea (I think something similar happens in Venice?).
The Fionavar Trilogy is not based on any particular cultures, but you can see elements from other cultures (the tree, Arthur and Guenivir.) It also shows up in references as a sort of utopian world in "Tigana".
"The Last Light of the Sun" is viking-ish, but I don't think it was as good as his others.
And sorry for the spelling today.
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07/17Readings for nerds!!!!! Drink, drink,drink..... fight, fight,fight..... eat... repeat! -
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07/17To whoever asked --
"The Knight" is somewhat dry, but full of real facts and doesn't fantasize or glorify the role of knights. So many books seem to overlook how things really were.The book isn't for everybody, just real nerds, when it comes to period study, like me. It does, however, shed light on a subject that has been slanted in many books. Even textbooks, as we know, don't always tell the truth. To me, it's certainly not the driest book I've read. I'm liking it.
The other title should have been "Life in a Medieval Castle." I've read a few of their other books, for example, "Women in the Middle Ages" and "Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages." Enjoyable, with facts.
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07/17i've been so busy of late... i've forgotten what i was reading...
i think it was a book on spelling :)
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07/17My favorite medieval study book is "The Ties that Bound" (can't remember the author). It is a look at the everyday life of the lower classes mid-middle ages (13th/14th C) in England. The author looks at the coroner's reports and death records to see what people were doing and how they lived. For example, you can get an idea of how houses were constructed when you read a record that someone smothered to death when the wall fell on them while they were sleeping. -
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07/17ahh yes...
oh, and now i remember... it was spells for healing and well-being : )
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07/20I may have to dig out my old "Deryni" paperbacks by Katherine Kurtz and bring them for a re-read. It's been way too long....
