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I'm just getting over about 3 weeks of sickness during which I reread 3 Discworld books.
Now that my mind is functioning better again I've started a couple more books from my Master Fantasy List. Phantasmion by Sara Coleridge and The Mabinogion Tetralogy by Evangeline Walton.
The first is from 1837 and is one of those transitional works between the straight up fairy tale and the fantasy novel. I have a feeling most people would find it dreadfully traditional, but I think it has a great deal of beauty.
The second is a retelling of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, the classic of Welsh Mythology. Though unlike the type of "retellings" you generally find today where the story is quite different and merely has some of the trappings of the original, this seems to be exactly the same story as the original but with more of the plot, characterization and such that we moderns are used to in our novels. What I have is actually an omnibus of four different novels, each covering a different Branch. I'm reading the first book, Prince of Annwn, which concerns Pwyll Prince of Dyved and Arawn King in Annwn. I'm a mythology buff so I'm naturally enjoying it.
Now that my mind is functioning better again I've started a couple more books from my Master Fantasy List. Phantasmion by Sara Coleridge and The Mabinogion Tetralogy by Evangeline Walton.
The first is from 1837 and is one of those transitional works between the straight up fairy tale and the fantasy novel. I have a feeling most people would find it dreadfully traditional, but I think it has a great deal of beauty.
The second is a retelling of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, the classic of Welsh Mythology. Though unlike the type of "retellings" you generally find today where the story is quite different and merely has some of the trappings of the original, this seems to be exactly the same story as the original but with more of the plot, characterization and such that we moderns are used to in our novels. What I have is actually an omnibus of four different novels, each covering a different Branch. I'm reading the first book, Prince of Annwn, which concerns Pwyll Prince of Dyved and Arawn King in Annwn. I'm a mythology buff so I'm naturally enjoying it.