Easy to be worth more than a thousand of mine.

[lady_schrapnell]

Such a great cover - it tickles me every time I look at it. The manly, manly jaw and sharp pointy object so undercut by the stance and wrist limpness... (But is the pose This dagger will be used to pick my nose if necessary - it's my compensation or the more obvious Mention my flaming campness and I'll give you a free lobotomy?

Very interesting read, too - I was babbling to steepholm last night about a few of its oddities, including the fact that Regina, who has 'never had a mother or father' but was owned by a nasty old woman who sent her out begging in the streets of Vinconium, speaks with the perfect, rather formal language Rosemary Sutcliff uses for People from the Past.



This is the more obvious type of happiness - my second completed (all except getting Younger Daughter to choose buttons and then sewing them on) Mrs Darcy cardigan. I'm thrilled to have it off the needles, sewn up and blocked, in large part because I kept making idiotic mistakes which made me sure I need a keeper. There were attempts to get pictures of her wearing it, but she claimed they were all horrible and they were on her camera so I couldn't just ignore her.

Silly, horribly immature pleasure provided by a thread on Ravlery about a new yarn (wrote 'yearn' first time!) called Fannie's Fingering. It *is* a US company, rather than a British or Australian one, and fingering *is* a weight of yarn, but still... Yes - this remains book-related - Fanny Burney - Fanny Price - Fanny Hi... never mind.

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[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

Funny - those were the two I just got from the (tiny, dreary local) library recently. I thought I'd read Knight's Fee before, but won't know until I start it. Eagle of the Ninth is probably my all-time favourite, though I have a real fondness for the two Tudor ones (The Armourer's House and The Queen Elizabeth Story) - despite knowing both are perilously close to twee at times. And Simon I felt was good but rather dull, until I reread it after reading the *censors self* I, Coriander and realised how much had stuck with me about how a clash of ideologies could be presented in children's historicals. (From probably one full read about three decades earlier? Impressive.) I liked the very understated romance, and probably read those couple of scenes more times!