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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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I have a vague recollection that our library got rid of them. The copies we had were very old, quite worn. I can remember those books, at first thinking that they dated back to medieval times. (Hey, at ten or so, I had no clue about history.) At any rate, when I tried to find them years later, they were costing a fortune to find used, so I haven't reread any for ages.

I was puzzled by the (austere, as I believe) love relationships. I finally did get exasperated because the women never seemed to do much of anything. Even Wendy went to Never Land, though she was a prissy drip. So I read them for that adventure itch, but preferred the Enid Blytons overall. Shows what great taste I had!

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

:) Yeah - I was just thinking now (when replying to intertext) how I have a most split reaction to Sutcliff's willingness to keep the girls in historically-appropriate positions, unlike modern historicals. There's one - don't know if you read it - The Shield Ring and the girl/woman character is anything but a passive sit-at-home, but it still refers back to the beginning, where the hero as a little boy grabs her skirt and says 'Come you' and - you know - that's the way it is. No need for him to ask her to come with him again! And that kind of horrifies me and I kind of admire it deeply. But even though the male friendships are usually by far the most important, I like the little flashes of humour in the romances sometimes. And some of them just rock.

Gah to your library getting rid of them! But next time I see any of hers for sale (they were 5 books for one Euro at our library!) I'll grab them for you and keep them until someone's going in this direction or that across the pond and can bring them over. I love your thinking they were medieval!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, if they really are that cheap, that would be awesome. Because they sure aren't here.

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

Definitely! Though I can't promise you covers this fabulous.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I never notice covers. my nose is inside!