I maunder, you meander, she needs a gag

[incandescens]

No, provider still not providing. Yes, still most annoyed.

At this rate I'm actually going to have to rely on the local library for research material for Dark Ages stuff. Oh the pain, oh the horror. (Okay, that's exaggeration; I do use the library normally, and for research material, whether that means Thai guidebooks or English history.)

Have been reading some of Barker's Tekumel stuff, and now wish that GOO would move a bit faster on their promised reprint of his Empire of the Petal Throne game. I do realise that there are probably perfectly good reasons for why it's not out yet -- just as there are with GURPS Vorkosigan, dammit -- but I'm currently admiring the drifts of glittering prose and exotic interest.

Currently stacking the collected works of Patricia Keneally-Morrison (or Kennealy-Morrison, I forget) to donate to charity. From secondhand bookshops they came; to secondhand bookshops they shall return. Few authors have done more to put me off pseudo-Celticism.

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[copperbird.livejournal.com]

Yikes, good luck with the connection, that all sounds deeply miserable.

I don't think I recognise the name Patricia Keneally-Morrison, but I'm guessing this isn't a recommendation :) I think the phrase 'pseudo-Celticism' already puts me off, but has anyone done that well? I'm thinking vaguely of Guy Gavriel Kaye (which I loved) and Katherine Kurtz's Deryni (which left me rather cold) ... there must be more.

[incandescens]

There's that one, The Hounds of the Morrigan, by a woman whose surname begins with O or P, iirc, which I have always enjoyed. Then again, that's a "children's book".

[rheow.livejournal.com]

I think you're referring to "The Hounds of the Morrigan" by Pat O'Shea. A very nice book indeed (and I still read it--so many of the good ones are found in the kids section).

[(Anonymous)]

(Hm- I'd have said maunder was more pejorative than meander, myself.) Is she the one with the pseudo-pre-Raphaelite covers?
-mjj

[incandescens]

(True, but I'd been reading through my last few posts, and noticing the whimper level rising with every "no provider, waaah," and feeling honest.) That sounds like her; very pretty jewel-toned pseudo-Raphaelite covers, solid heavy books an inch or more thick. I went through a period of being moderately interested in them five or six years ago, and picked up several secondhand. Rereading them now, I'm trying to decide what the hell I could have been thinking of.