LJ Idol - Topic 12 - Stories

[emo_snal]

   “Yuri Stepanovich Predstav?” asked Ivan matter-of-factly. Across the table, squinting in the bright light, Yuri nodded.
   “You may call me Sergeant Alexandrov,” continued Ivan, rifling through a stack of papers on the metal desk between them. There was a slight pause while he occupied himself thus.
   And thus begins a story I wrote in 2003

Comments

[agirlnamedluna]

My favourite historical fiction was about the 100 year war, there were made up characters but the gist was true, and I actually went to visit some spots of it and everything, so yah for hisfic!

100 Years War

[emosnail]

Ooh whats it called? As I think I mentioned to you before I'm kind of intrigued by the 100 years war (or at least I remember talking to you about the 80 years war, which was kind of tangental). Last year I was lobbying to have a Model UN conference run a historical simulation of the Peace of Westphalia negotiations, which of course ended both wars and established the modern conception of nation-states.

So yes, what is this book? I'm very interested in reading it.

Re: 100 Years War

[agirlnamedluna]

Oh it's a series for children, by Thea Beckman, a Dutch writer. I don't know what the title might be in English. She's also the author of Crusade in Jeans, a story set against the Children's crusades, but with a boy from our time joining them. Her 100 year war trilogy is mostly about Bertrand du Guesclin, but also about a fictional set of characters whose lives are intertwined with his.

[johnmill79]

I like Ken Follett, because you spend half of the novel wondering "is any of this true? Did it really happen?" Like for instance, he has a scene in World Without End where one of the nuns realizes that having sick people bunking with visitors in a hospital is bad and probably spreads disease. So they are then separated. His stuff is just fascinating to me!

[emo_snal]

Historical fantasy?

[brightflashes]

Nice! :D

[boxsofrain]

How did you feel interrogated with the lights? Even though it was for MUN, I don't know how you did it with a straight face. I would have either had a panic attack or busted out laughing.

[gratefuladdict]

Tinseltoes? I change with the season???

[emosnail]

:D