Re: Dorothy Dunnett book club
Apr. 18th, 2011 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaI am on chapter VII of A Game of Kings. Status updates mostly for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rondaview's benefit but feel free to read along or comment as you like. XD
As Tetris creates hypnagogic visions of falling blocks I fell asleep to falling Scottish. It feels weird getting this sort of thing through a non-Victorian filter (but what to call the filter?). When I was a child/tween I accepted that you had to put some initial level-farming into a historical novel: Sir Walter Scott or the Baroness Orczy would not, for instance, inform you who the main character was until a few chapters in. I know who the main character is but I don't know why. Forebodingly, this setup didn't end well in Miura Kentaro. Stylistically, there's a lot of synecdoche.
"Further reading" linkage in the mental map I'm currently building out:
Strawberry Switchblade - Being Cold
The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk
The Twelve Days of Christmas (via charmian)
rondaview's benefit but feel free to read along or comment as you like. XD As Tetris creates hypnagogic visions of falling blocks I fell asleep to falling Scottish. It feels weird getting this sort of thing through a non-Victorian filter (but what to call the filter?). When I was a child/tween I accepted that you had to put some initial level-farming into a historical novel: Sir Walter Scott or the Baroness Orczy would not, for instance, inform you who the main character was until a few chapters in. I know who the main character is but I don't know why. Forebodingly, this setup didn't end well in Miura Kentaro. Stylistically, there's a lot of synecdoche.
"Further reading" linkage in the mental map I'm currently building out:
Strawberry Switchblade - Being Cold
The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk
The Twelve Days of Christmas (via charmian)
