Reading material

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I have this habit of trying to always have a book with me to read. You know, just in case I wind up with nothing to do for a while I'll have something to entertain me. Anyhow, my current something-to-read-in-a-spare-moment book is by Judith Tarr. It's called King's Blood and it's the same book she's been writing since her earliest books were put out. I'll admit to reading her stuff because it's predictable, fun, has happy endings and I don't have to worry about figuring out what's going on since I'm usually reading it in five to ten minute increments. Anyone who's curious, it's of the genre known as historical fantasy. It's exactly like historical fiction, that is a book set in the real past with recognisable historical figures appearing, except for the fact that it's fantasy and works from the principle that the driving forces behind peoples' actions involve magic.

Anyhow, I'm in class the other day, and I'd opened up the book but I'd realised there was something else I wanted to take out of my backpack. So while I was getting that, the guy next to me looks at the first line of chapter 19 and says, "'Fornicators! Sodomites!'? What are you reading?"

The conversation wound up travelling in such a way that when the prof showed up, he had to ask, "How did you get onto that topic?" The topic in question being a trend among some historians in claiming that Richard Lionheart was gay.

I really need to find less strange books to bring to class.

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