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rofl, “I tried to schtup this married woman but she wanted nothing to do with me, so here’s why she’s horrible, actually”
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I’ve had a lot on my mind and got distracted several times, which is one of the issues audiobooks.
Started Grit by Angela Duckworth.
My next us was supposed to be True Crime, which I don’t have on my shelf. Intended to get Executioners Song from library, but at 1100 pages, wouldn’t finish before vacation and too big to take on vacation. Not sure I want to bring a library book on vacation. So pushed it back on the list, instead of just getting a shorter book.
Fantasy is also a hard define. Last few were easy (Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Narnia). I am including King like Horror. Would anyone include Macbeth as Fantasy? Witches, ghosts.
Fantasy is a large chunk of my reading.
I’m not sure I’d include MacBeth as Fantasy but it’s not an unreasonable inclusion if you’re trying to kill two birds with one book so to speak like “classics and fantasy”
Beowulf?
ok, so before Fantasy, is Memoir / Autobiography.
Angela’s Ashes - McCourt
You gonna read the trilogy?
depends if i like this and I see the others for free.
This is the only title of the three i was familiar with
I highly recommend them.
If you’re looking for a fantasy recommendation that is NOT a series -
Circe by Madeline Miller was very good. You’ll be familiar with the characters from Greek myths.
Uprooted by Naomi Novak. My wife enjoyed it a lot and I’m just starting. We both enjoyed her Deadly Education trilogy and she’s just started her dragon series that has a bunch of books.
I also have Stephen King’s Fairy Tale that my daughter liked but it’s in my queue and I haven’t gotten to it yet.
i have shelves filled with books, trying to hopefully find the genre amongst what i already have.
If supernatural stories of horror are definitely not fantasy, I’ll start checking the library, otherwise I’ll go through what i have
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Then I’d say Beowulf would clearly qualify as Fantasy. But I’m not sure it’s the best read. I think I read parts of it long ago and was not really impressed.
that doesn’t matter either. I put it on the shelf, it will get read
just got through Agincourt, and I liked the point re: combatants v non-combatants in estimating army size
(I’m not copying over all the text)
Basically, the English really did see a huge force arrayed against them, but a huge percentage were noncombatants, because so many on the French side were non-fighting supporters for the men-at-arms.
The English had far more archers who did not need non-fighting servants.
Anyway, I’m on the other side of the battle at this point, so the rest of the book should go relatively rapidly [I am not reading the frickin appendices]
Maybe the French needed more pages to prepare gourmet cuisine while the English just needed them to boil up the gruel.
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ha, fantasy is like, 95%+ of my reading, but fantastic concepts loooooong predate the ‘fantasy genre’. Mythology is largely fantastic in nature. I’m reading the Volsunga Saga right now (many of the stories are also in the Eddas and Nibelungenlied), the ‘killing of the dragon’ scene, what do we call that if not fantasy?
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The English also were farther from home, so needed more supplies to feed the people they brought, no?
So they needed more supplies to feed those they brought… and the thing is, Henry had lands in France he already controlled. So he got some goods from there. But also, they didn’t bring enough stuff, and did start raiding the countryside.
Finished the Aeneid, Mabinogion, the Saga of the Volsungs, as well as Brandon Sanderson’s Elantris (my first Sanderson).
I have 50 pages left of On the Road, I’m also now reading the Divine Comedy (found a translation I really like, with copious endnotes for each Canto: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno: Dante Alighieri, Durling, Robert M., Turner, Robert: 9780195087444: Amazon.com: Books), the Nibelungenlied, and the History of the Kings of Britain. I’m reading Hyperion; after I finish that and the sequel I’ll probably start Sanderson’s Mistborn. I also have a bunch of standalone fantasy books that I might want to start whittling down in December/January.