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Jan. 3rd, 2008 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pebblerockerI've always wanted to try that Googlism thing, where you type in your name and find out what the internet has to say about you. Trouble is I don't like to tell my real name to everyone on the internet... so we'll go with what I like to call myself instead.
pebble is worth it
pebble is neither very complicated or a mystery
pebble is crammed full of interesting stuff
pebble is one of the greatest picture books yet written
pebble is magic
pebble is no longer visible
pebble is as easy to use as an office printer
pebble is dispatched from rome to gaul
pebble is something else all right
And this year I'm going to keep a list of all the books I read, as I always do, but this time I'll share it with everyone instead of just keeping it in an exercise book. First book I finished this year--though I started it nearly a month ago--was Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff, a King Arthur story. This modern interpretation of King Arthur shows "no knight in shining armour, no Round Table, no many-towered Camelot"; instead, the solitary figure of one great man more real than legend. In this superb twentieth-century novel, Rosemary Sutcliff presents an Arthur shorn of his romantic trappings and seen again as the man he must have been. It was published in 1963; many older historical novels say more about the period when they were written than the period they're set in, but this story was fresh and real and didn't feel at all dated. I loved it.
pebble is worth it
pebble is neither very complicated or a mystery
pebble is crammed full of interesting stuff
pebble is one of the greatest picture books yet written
pebble is magic
pebble is no longer visible
pebble is as easy to use as an office printer
pebble is dispatched from rome to gaul
pebble is something else all right
And this year I'm going to keep a list of all the books I read, as I always do, but this time I'll share it with everyone instead of just keeping it in an exercise book. First book I finished this year--though I started it nearly a month ago--was Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff, a King Arthur story. This modern interpretation of King Arthur shows "no knight in shining armour, no Round Table, no many-towered Camelot"; instead, the solitary figure of one great man more real than legend. In this superb twentieth-century novel, Rosemary Sutcliff presents an Arthur shorn of his romantic trappings and seen again as the man he must have been. It was published in 1963; many older historical novels say more about the period when they were written than the period they're set in, but this story was fresh and real and didn't feel at all dated. I loved it.
