Mod post: theme suggestions
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readingthepastPlease suggest themes you'd like to see covered here! Cut and paste the following into a comment:
ETA: please put your theme in the subject of your comment!
Theme:
Are you prepared to run it? Yes/No
Suggested books, if you have them already:
What does it mean to run the theme?
1. At least one month in advance, you'll let everyone know about the theme and your suggested reading for it. You need to suggest at least 3 works of fiction.
2. On the first of the month, you will post a welcome/introduction/kickoff for the theme.
3. Throughout the month, you'll take an active part in discussion of the theme.
You do not have to be an expert on the theme to run it. You just need to have an interest in it.
ETA: please put your theme in the subject of your comment!
Theme:
Are you prepared to run it? Yes/No
Suggested books, if you have them already:
What does it mean to run the theme?
1. At least one month in advance, you'll let everyone know about the theme and your suggested reading for it. You need to suggest at least 3 works of fiction.
2. On the first of the month, you will post a welcome/introduction/kickoff for the theme.
3. Throughout the month, you'll take an active part in discussion of the theme.
You do not have to be an expert on the theme to run it. You just need to have an interest in it.
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Date: 2009-06-01 03:20 pm (UTC)Are you prepared to run it? No
Suggested books, if you have them already:
Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey (does that count, as it's not really set in that time)
Richard III, Shakespeare
The Sunne in Splendour, Sharon Kay Penman
Wars of the Roses in fiction (last updated in 2004, this is an archive.org cache)
An excellent R3 list is here, although it includes fiction during other medieval British rulers' reigns as well.
I am sure others have read more fiction set in this era, but this is a start from what I am familiar with as mainly a reader of non-fiction.
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Date: 2009-06-01 07:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-01 07:48 pm (UTC)Also, thanks for starting this comm. I love the idea and hope to get some good reading out of it!
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Date: 2009-06-02 05:12 pm (UTC)For non-fiction there's a splendid book, Malory: the life and times of King Arthur's chronicler a biography of Sir. Thomas Malory, by Christina Hardyment (2005) with marvelous illos.
This isn't available online though, though you can get it from amazon, maybe. It's a Bit publication and I don't believe any U.S. publisher picked it up. We have it in the NYPL holdings though.
Love, C.
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Date: 2009-06-05 06:19 am (UTC)Ford's also got a delightful War of the Roses poem, where a series of Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights play each of the kings.