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Jilly_in_VA

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3. Just finished
Sun Dec 18, 2022, 12:48 PM
Dec 2022
Dark Age Monarch, by Joseph J. Swope (I think I got the author's name right). It was an attempt to reconcile the Arthurian legend with history by interspersing history with the tales in novel form. It didn't work very well because it ended up being very choppy and the only character that stood out at all was Merlin. I am a sucker for any Arthurian tales but this one just made me want to pick up The Mists of Avalon or The Once and Future King again and say to hell with history. It's nice and all that but put it in the front or the back of the book, don't chop it all up!

Now I'm reading Chaucer and the Legend of Good Women, by Philip Gooden. So far, much more to my liking. I liked the other book I read in this series. I like the Matthew Shardlake books too.

On my downstairs Kindle I'm reading Extraordinary Means, by Donna Levin. It's the story of a young woman who's in a coma after a (maybe) accidental overdose and the conflict in her family over whether to pull the plug. So far I hate everyone in the book except the victim, who hovers like a spirit above everyone and watches everything, telling the story from her viewpoint. It's the first time in a long time I've disliked so many characters so much! I wouldn't blame her for wanting to get away from them....

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