The Hermit of Eyton Forest
Ellis Peters
Futura 1987 224pp SC slightly foxed
There are things in life that are stereotypes or platitudes simply because they are so good and so helpful that we fall back to using or saying the same things in times of great joy or great sorrow. There are also a select band of authors for whom reading is always a great pleasure - there is never a disappointmant, a missed step or a last chocolate in the box.
This was a book that I had in the car as my Waiting Book. It is usually a magazine - something I can pick up and put down when I am waiting for things to start or for things to finish. In retrospect, it was very silly for it to be this book because after 3 days of reading a few pages in that window between parking and bells ringing I have had to bring it inside to finish it. The weather was even so charming as to rain today - Perfect.
This is the Fourteenth chronicle in the Brother Cadfael series. There is - not neccessarily in this order - a murder or two, a love story (sigh), great injustice, political intrigue, great wrongs righted, justice in the spirit if not the letter of the law and a final page that brings - Every Time Without Fail - such a feeling of peace and completeness and A Great Good sense of Rightness about the world.
As stated earlier, you could say they are formuliac and sometimes predictable, but that would be like saying the first morning smile on your childs face is predictable or that lemon gelati is dull because you know beforehand it is going to be just sooooo good every time.
Here is an author who can WRITE right, boys and girls. Buy These Books. They will stand you in good stead for years to come. Miss Peters deserves your royalties! Go on - Get out there and Posssess!
Futura 1987 224pp SC slightly foxed
"It was on the eighteenth day of October of that year 1142 that Richard Ludel, hereditary tenant of the manor of Eaton, died of a debilitating weakness, left after wounds received at the battle of Lincoln, the the service of King Stephen."
There are things in life that are stereotypes or platitudes simply because they are so good and so helpful that we fall back to using or saying the same things in times of great joy or great sorrow. There are also a select band of authors for whom reading is always a great pleasure - there is never a disappointmant, a missed step or a last chocolate in the box.
This was a book that I had in the car as my Waiting Book. It is usually a magazine - something I can pick up and put down when I am waiting for things to start or for things to finish. In retrospect, it was very silly for it to be this book because after 3 days of reading a few pages in that window between parking and bells ringing I have had to bring it inside to finish it. The weather was even so charming as to rain today - Perfect.
This is the Fourteenth chronicle in the Brother Cadfael series. There is - not neccessarily in this order - a murder or two, a love story (sigh), great injustice, political intrigue, great wrongs righted, justice in the spirit if not the letter of the law and a final page that brings - Every Time Without Fail - such a feeling of peace and completeness and A Great Good sense of Rightness about the world.
As stated earlier, you could say they are formuliac and sometimes predictable, but that would be like saying the first morning smile on your childs face is predictable or that lemon gelati is dull because you know beforehand it is going to be just sooooo good every time.
Here is an author who can WRITE right, boys and girls. Buy These Books. They will stand you in good stead for years to come. Miss Peters deserves your royalties! Go on - Get out there and Posssess!
- posted by FuschiaReads @ 1:31 PM
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"This was an unexpected stroke, I never thought, that so marvellous a creature could be in this world with mine and Mariah's blood in his veins. Should I have told him? No, what needs he now of a father, but by your grace I have seen him, I have sat and talked with him of times passed, I have kissed him, I have had cause to be glad of him, and shall have cause to feel glad a life long. What does it matter that these eyes may never see him again? And yet they may."
Both taken from "Virgin in the Ice"
http://www.steveconrad.co.uk/cadfael/quotes.html
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