Uh, I've just discovered that Blofeld's garden of death exists. It is a garden at Alnwick Castle instead of in Japan, but nevertheless. I...would go visit that garden, actually. But the fact that they've had to put a bench in one part of the garden since people sometimes pass out from the smell of one of the flowers is slightly alarming.


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I read The Sand-Reckoner the other day (the one by Gillian Bradshaw, not the one by Archimedes) and now I have all these feelings about Archimedes and Syracuse and Hieron ( Read more... )

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I'm apparently on a re-read kick, and I have too many to review in the same way I did Mistborn (words! words everywhere!) so here's a quick thing:

The Sky is Falling, Looking at the Moon and The Lights Go On Again by Kit Pearson ( Read more... )

( From the fight scene and reconciliation with Agravain )

I keep thinking of what might make the story less painful. There's not much, seeing as it's been set that way; perhaps if Chrétian de Troyes' infidelity plot wasn't involved (and was it different before? If so, I hate you, Chretien, and wish you'd never influenced the mythos this way). The ending of In Winter's Shadow ( Read more... )

[Spoilers for Bradshaw's 'In Winter's Shadow', more historical story of King Arthur, at the end. Spoilers for the book specifically, though if you know the legend you will know this all anyway; in this one there is no Merlin, no Lancelot [replaced by Bedwyr], severely curtailed magical elements.]I've finished In Winter's Shadow and I have reverted to the state of being unable to do anything but think and want to cry and I am glad to have Hawk of May on my shelf because I need to go and reread that again to comfort myself. I knew what was coming, and I thought that the infidelity plot was the worst of it, but it wasn't, because now they are ( Read more... )

"Arthur Pendragon," whispered Morgawse, without moving. Her eyes were fixed on something infinitely far away. I shivered, for I knew that the hate she had borne for Uther had been conferred in double measure on Uther's son. "Artorius, Insularis Draco, Augustus, Imperator Britanniarum. That is his Roman title, man. Arthur, Pendragon, High King of ( Read more... )

Title: Hawk of May
Author: Gillian Bradshaw
Length: 279 pages

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