lost in a book
Oct. 29th, 2008 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_crow'K guys. Fess up. I know one of you on my flist is responsible.
Someone, some where, mentioned ebear's Kit and Dunnett's Lymond in the same breath, and I followed up on it like the avid reader I am, and HolyCrap Roman Empire... I have been head down in the end of the reign of Queen Mary in England and the young Mary, Queen of Scots, and swept across the landscape from Scotland to France and down to Malta and Turkey and Stamboul (was Constantinople) for the last week. It is making me short with my family and very unhappy unless I am reading the Lymond chronicles except when I have to stop because another of my favorite characters is dying in a hideous and 16th century fashion.
Whoever it was, thank you, I think. There are some wonderful parts, but most are scary and ugly and nasty brutish and short. But the writing... I am smitten, and kept at arm's length at the same time, a joyful and uncomfortable place to be.
You'll excuse me, I have to go see if they're really dead.
Gah.
Someone, some where, mentioned ebear's Kit and Dunnett's Lymond in the same breath, and I followed up on it like the avid reader I am, and Holy
Whoever it was, thank you, I think. There are some wonderful parts, but most are scary and ugly and nasty brutish and short. But the writing... I am smitten, and kept at arm's length at the same time, a joyful and uncomfortable place to be.
You'll excuse me, I have to go see if they're really dead.
Gah.