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I don’t know how I feel about this yet since it’s just a simplified retelling of Malory’s stories but I could not resist buying a Penguin Deluxe Classics edition of King Arthur.. even if it isn’t actually Malory’s. #books #bookstagram
aw, I wanted to be the newest non-AU author for a little while longer.
Post-Camelot is extremely intriguing, if not a little depressing.
If Merlin’s surly apprentice is not Nimueh or Morgana, I’ll be annoyed though.
‘The Magicians’ author writing novel set in post-Camelot era
BOOK OF THE DAY August 23 – Sci-Fi / Space / Arthurian
Temporary sale: http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/shelves/book.php?id=82276
*The Green Knight* by Chris Dietzel
BLURB: Welcome to Space Lore, where Arthurian legend meets Star Wars. Epic space fantasy will never be the same.
For Book of the Day, this book has been put on a temporary sale for only 99 cents. The clock is literally ticking. Hurry and get your copy now while it is at this low price:
The plot of the book Desperate Housewives of Avalon is literally the goddess Artemis wanting to sleep with a bad boy, so she goes to Avalon to seduce Mordred
he is described by Artemis’ friends (who are trying to convince her) as “tormented deliciousness”
Mordred. Tormented deliciousness
in case you thought I was joking about the pop-up book. highlights include Lancelot crying because he can’t achieve the grail, the line “As pure as Galahad was, there was another nearby who was perfectly wicked” (nearby = in the same bed, imo), oh, and, on the last page, PULLING THE TAB TO MAKE MORDRED’S SWORD PIERCE ARTHUR’S SIDE WHAT KIND OF SICK FUCKS THOUGHT THIS WAS APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN
So I was at a thrift store Bc I needed pants and I saw /this/, & I thought it was something a lot of you would appreciate
The best of the best!
Today my tome for @bibliophilicwitch tomes and tea is an old favourite rather than a new book – Rosalind Kerven’s retellings of some of the Arthurian Legends. The tea, as is usual with me, is coffee (de-caf as it’s evening here).
I don’t remember the first time my Gran told me about King Arthur, I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know about him, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table. The legends have been a lifelong obsession and I own many books on practically every aspect of Arthuriana, some wonderful, some inventive, and some that – were I not a hoarder of books – would have been passed to a charity shop by now.
I go back to this particular volume again and again because I love Rosalind’s writing style and the fact she includes extensive notes on each of the seven stories she chose to include (The Coming of Arthur, The Enchantment of Merlin, How Cullwch Won Olwen, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tristram and Isolde, Elaine who Loved Sir Lancelot, and The End of the Golden Age). As you can see from the second picture, the book itself is beautiful inside as well as out, with glorious illustrations which makes it a true pleasure to pick up.
This book looks lovely!
My hardcover of Le Morte d’Arthur arrived today – 3 days late, but it was all worth it. I audibly gasped when I opened the package, the front was just so beautiful I was already in love before I even looked at the rest of the book. It’s a gorgeous teal colour with beautiful golden designs & golden metalic page edges. The inside is just as beautiful as the outside, the illustrations are wonderful, as are the Book title pages. Also, it smells lovely! I am so, so in love with this book. I had the idea when I bought it that I’ll throw away my old Le Morte d’Arthur paperback with the ripped pages & writing (it’s a second hand book) & read/use this new one but it’s so beautiful I feel guilty just touching it. It’s so heavy too, I have to find it a pride of place on my book shelf but aah, how do I put it in a way that you can see the entire book, there’s not one thing I don’t love.
[insert sexual pun here]
1954 King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Hard Cover Children’s Book. FN. Random House.
Arthurian Legends 