Trying to make sense of comments made on the previous Spanish post , I am faced with a comment that in translation is as follows:
Why, however romanófilo it one, give me I would not like the novel. You were giving me itchy with the description of the protagonists (so young and perfect) and the Manicheism good / bad. It will be as you say by the age of the novel, but one has their prejudices with these things. Although I suppose that’s a very good young adult novel set. Great review Valeria.
A son’s post on LiveJournal, sent to me by a stranger (to me): “Oh my God Daddy this is so BRILLIANT I want you to keep reading until the end or until we both fall asleep.” He likes it then …
Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog was writing about Rosemary’s books in America last September …
I went a little nuts this week. About halfway through The Lantern Bearers I realized I love a) historical fiction set in or near the Roman era and b) Rosemary Sutcliff’s books. LOVE. So I went and checked out all the Sutcliff books we have (and that I haven’t read, of course). Ha? I think I’m going to start with The Silver Branch, since it’s supposed to come between The Eagle of the Ninth and The Lantern Bearers, which I’ve already read. The others I found near the YA section, and they look like interesting, out-of-print books that are hopefully good reads.
In the blog A Fondness for Reading with ‘ …thoughts, memories, and ideas from a lifetime of reading’, a post entitled ‘Something Beautiful and Mysterious and Magical’ (May 23, 2007) is about Rosemary Sutcliff’s Arthurian Trilogy. Robin writes:Read More »
Emma-in-Oz wrote in her blog in 2008 that the Flower of Adonis was ‘fabulous’:
It’s one of her ‘adult’ novels. It has a difficult and fairly dark subject matter – the end of the Greek golden age of the fifth century. Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 