lazy hazy crazy days

[tempestsarekind]

Well, except for the last adjective. It's not exactly crazy around these parts.

I decided that yesterday needed to be another no-internet day, so instead I read a children's historical novel, Alchemy and Meggy Swann. This is the first book I've read by Karen Cushman, even though I always meant to read Catherine, Called Birdy, way back during one

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[erstwhiletexan]

Catherine, Called Birdy is one of my all time favorite books - it has stuck with me since I was very wee and I absolutely adore it! Definitely pick it up if you get a chance. :D

[tempestsarekind]

I remember reading the first few pages--when I was supposed to have been shelving books, hah--and I enjoyed them, so I'm not quite sure why I didn't check it out. Guilt, probably. :) Anyway, I'll definitely look into it!

[bewarethespork]

I liked both Catherine, Called Birdy and Matilda Bone when I read them in high school, though obviously I have nothing near your knowledge of the time period in which they were set, so I wouldn't know anything about historical inaccuracy.

Out of curiosity, if you like children's historical fiction, have you tried Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur trilogy? I'm forever trying to find people who've read them, but I never seem to have any luck.

[tempestsarekind]

Ha, I know next to nothing about the medieval period! (It is why I have an "i would make a terrible medievalist" tag--every so often I wind up teaching Chaucer or something in a survey course, which requires me to perpetrate fraud on innocent undergraduates, but that's about as far as it goes.) I always mean to do something about this, but sadly my brain is a sieve for all but the most useless information. :(

I haven't read those--though I remember beginning the first one, once upon a time! I think I put it back because I already had more books in my arms than I could carry or read, and then never quite got around to it again. (This happens a lot, it seems. It's a wonder I ever get anything read at all, since sometimes I have to check a book out two or three times before I actually read it all the way through.) But I'll have to put them (back) on the list.