The Blood Inside Maple Trees

[redbrunja]

zahrawithaz  has a post on the arthurian legends and how they developed over the centuries that is hugely helpful.

I find it especially timely because I've been trying to remember where I got my ideas about these legends. I remember liking Guinevere prior to reading The Mists of Avalon (one of the major reasons I hated that book was Bradley's treatment of her), although Bradley's novel is first I can recall reading about the arthurian legends; it was shortly followed by Child of the Northern Spring and Queen of the Summer Stars, though I did not read the third book of that trilogy; one of the thick, famous, books about Merlin( ETA: okay so I asked my mom about this, and I read The Crystal Cave and The Hollow Hills and I have never read ); and I Am Morgan Le Fay and I Am Mordred).

Basically, I do not recall a time when I didn't know the basis of these legends.

[ETA: From quizzing my mom, I am pretty sure that at least half but probably more of my early exposure to these legends was her telling them to me.]

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[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I KNOW RIGHT? SO MUCH LOATHING. I have rarely hated a book as much as I hated that one. Maybe only one other book EVER. And I have read A LOT of books.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

What I really curse myself for, looking back is how MUCH of that book I read. (There were about 75 pages I skipped over towards the end but seriously.) I was younger then, I didn't realize how valuable my time was; how many other, better books there were to read in the world.