Operation READ ALL THE SUTCLIFF
My mother offered to buy me Kindle books of my choice if I read a book she recommended. So I have now acquired a pop-sci book on conlangs that I have wanted for a couple years (Arika Okrent's In the Land of Invented Languages). Yes, I like conlangs and auxlangs. They're fun. Someday I will invent one that violates every single universal I can find, has an entirely marked inventory, and has words for every color except black, white, and red. It will be awesome.
Also, combined with the books I already had (and buying a couple more), I now have all the Rosemary Sutcliff books that have e-book versions, as far as I can tell. This would be Dawn Wind, The Eagle of the Ninth, Frontier Wolf, Knight's Fee, The Lantern Bearers, The Mark of the Horse Lord, Outcast, The Shield Ring, and The Silver Branch.
I am, as you have perhaps guessed, soon to embark upon Operation Read All The Sutcliff. And so, O my friends list, I ask you: in what order should I read them?
(I have already read Eot9, obviously, and I am going to read Frontier Wolf next, because I told![[personal profile]](https://imgprx.livejournal.net/fb85448d08e8bdc7166a6dd7ead1b583caf50e74c43e589b5a73b5bc4b044d71/P2WlxyVijxKghWxp9MdSV0Mdsf-ah7h0zACGVbdSgsfa9wzc2863DwUvDUA4DUR9vQ1cmDjQdwpRBB0Zjh0psVYBjDXS:HJRcDtAFf-jY9vz48So2Bg)
carmarthen I would only read it after I finished a draft of the army AU in case I inadvertently stole plot. She has been quoting bits of it for MONTHS very patiently and it sounds awesome. Plus I gather there are wolves? Other than that I have no idea what to read.)
(I mean, okay, I am ALSO writing a werewolf story, but I do not think that is similar enough that it should concern me.)
But first I have to make my way through the book my mom recced and report back to her. I am about a quarter through so far and have no idea what to tell her, because it is a New Age-y book written by a woman whose husband died on 9/11 about all the premonitions that the victims had before their deaths and all the messages that they have been sending their grieving families from the afterlife by, e.g., making the lights flicker, or making a lot of pennies and/or dimes show up. Things like that. It is, shall we say, not really my thing. It isn't my mother's thing either, as she pretty much reads the sort of short fiction that appears in the New Yorker or "literary fiction" (I have figured out that this is the kind of book where my mother complains if it has an actual plot to go with its characters). She described this as "the sort of shit your father likes," so I am still not sure why she insisted I read it. But I will persevere! I will be patient and endure! Someday this pain will be useful to me! Or something! I really have no idea what Ovid meant.
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Also, combined with the books I already had (and buying a couple more), I now have all the Rosemary Sutcliff books that have e-book versions, as far as I can tell. This would be Dawn Wind, The Eagle of the Ninth, Frontier Wolf, Knight's Fee, The Lantern Bearers, The Mark of the Horse Lord, Outcast, The Shield Ring, and The Silver Branch.
I am, as you have perhaps guessed, soon to embark upon Operation Read All The Sutcliff. And so, O my friends list, I ask you: in what order should I read them?
(I have already read Eot9, obviously, and I am going to read Frontier Wolf next, because I told
(I mean, okay, I am ALSO writing a werewolf story, but I do not think that is similar enough that it should concern me.)
But first I have to make my way through the book my mom recced and report back to her. I am about a quarter through so far and have no idea what to tell her, because it is a New Age-y book written by a woman whose husband died on 9/11 about all the premonitions that the victims had before their deaths and all the messages that they have been sending their grieving families from the afterlife by, e.g., making the lights flicker, or making a lot of pennies and/or dimes show up. Things like that. It is, shall we say, not really my thing. It isn't my mother's thing either, as she pretty much reads the sort of short fiction that appears in the New Yorker or "literary fiction" (I have figured out that this is the kind of book where my mother complains if it has an actual plot to go with its characters). She described this as "the sort of shit your father likes," so I am still not sure why she insisted I read it. But I will persevere! I will be patient and endure! Someday this pain will be useful to me! Or something! I really have no idea what Ovid meant.
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