BestBooks is a record of all of the books that I have read since November 2004, with brief descriptions and reviews.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Mark of the Horse Lord by Rosemary Sutcliff
I read this out loud to the boys. I kept thinking that they would hate it because the prose was so dense and the story so complicated and subtly stated, but they loved it. I did, too. Historical fiction at its best.
I read Warrior Scarlet, Eagles of the Ninth, (?) Knights Fee, one other book of hers many years ago and enjoyed them all. Picked them up at a library that was dumping old books that weren't circulating, like a dime each. Nice treatment of Celtic/Roman/Anglo and Anglo-Saxon England. Also picked up a neat book called Wordhoard, Anglo-Saxon stories by some other authors.
I read this out loud to the boys. I kept thinking that they would hate it because the prose was so dense and the story so complicated and subtly stated, but they loved it. I did, too. Historical fiction at its best.
I read Warrior Scarlet, Eagles of the Ninth, (?) Knights Fee, one other book of hers many years ago and enjoyed them all. Picked them up at a library that was dumping old books that weren't circulating, like a dime each. Nice treatment of Celtic/Roman/Anglo and Anglo-Saxon England. Also picked up a neat book called Wordhoard, Anglo-Saxon stories by some other authors.
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