#bernard cornwall

[fshoulders]

You, a normal person: Can’t believe we’re selling staff officer commissions now. They made this Palantir fuck a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army?

Me, not normal: I KNOW. Like Richard Fucking Sharpe didn’t labor through the entire Peninsula Campaign, save the regiment from dissolution, and smash a hundred deserving heads with the butt of his Baker Rifle in order to retire a Lieutenant Colonel after Waterloo. No respect!

You: I don’t think…Sharpe is…real?

Me: Oh no, he isn’t; and also this is America, so it’s a slap in the face of our anti-aristocratic traditions and such. Yes.

[gawrkin]

And while ragging on MZB/Mists of Avalon, here's Bernard Cornwall doing the polar opposite of what Bradley's doing with Morgan and Guinevere:

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(From The Warlord Chronicles/Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwall)

[worldofcelts]

Hi - thanks for the book rec! I wanted to send one back to you. Have you read any of Bernard Cornwall's pre-christian British books? He first did a historical King Arthur series (the main character is an orphan who is favored by Merlin and then by Arthur, so he's sort of a fly on the wall character). The's also Stonehenge, which goes back to like 2000BC and speculates on the society that build the henge.

That’s a good recommendation! It ties in with the indie books article I’m working on at the moment, in that the Arthurian legends appear to be a preferred theme. I’ll add it to my research & reading list. Always open for book recs. 📒💚

Here’s some quick links/further reading for those interested:

The Arthur Books

Stonehenge series

[goodbooksandgoodwine]

The Girl Who Wrote In Silk | Glory Over Everything | Warriors Of The Storm

The Girl Who Wrote In Silk | Glory Over Everything | Warriors Of The Storm

In which we throw it back and I review three historical fiction audiobooks today — let me know if any of these books sound like something you’d enjoy! [book-info number=”1″] The Girl Who Wrote In Silk by Kelli Estes reminds me that I definitely do not read enough adult historical fiction. It is such an interesting audiobook. Actually, The Girl Who Wrote In Silk works so well as an audiobook. I’d…

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[adecentblogger]

Why I Read Historical Fiction

I’ve been busy as a bee, or perhaps a bookworm, recently, stuffing as much reading time into my summer as possible while I can still control what I want to read. While I haven’t consciously focused on any type of book in particular, I have noticed that one genre has been taking up much of my time recently, one that I haven’t really enjoyed in a while; historical fiction.

When I was young, I loved…

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[bbcamerica]

ANNOUNCING: See the first teaser of new bbcamerica drama "The Last Kingdom” during Saturday's orphanblack premiere. 

The Last Kingdom is an adaptation of Bernard Cornwall’s best-selling series of novels “The Saxon Stories”, by award-winning writer Stephen Butchard, and will premiere later this year on BBC AMERICA.

Set in the 9th century, the separate kingdoms which once made up England have fallen to the invading Vikings. Only the great Kingdom of Wessex – the last kingdom – stands defiant under its visionary King Alfred the Great. Against this turbulent backdrop, Uhtred, who loses his Saxon father in battle, is kidnapped by the Vikings and raised as one of their own. Forced to choose between the country of his birth and the people of his upbringing, his loyalties are ever tested. Is he Saxon or Viking?

The international cast includes Alexander Dreymon (American Horror Story), Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner), David Dawson (Ripper Street), Emily Cox (The Silent Mountain), Matthew Macfadyen (Anna Karenina), Ian Hart (Boardwalk Empire) and Rune Temte (Ulykken (The Accident). The eight part series is currently filming in Hungary and the UK.

[rey-skywalkin-away]

Warlord Chronicles

Oooh my God. I don't think I've ever hated a character in a series as much as Lancelot from the Warlord Chronicles. Why isn't anyone else talking about what a humongous douchecanoe Lancelot is? I want to murder him...I want to see him...

[untitledismyname]

Arturus Rex Quondam, Rexque Futurus: Arther, our Once and Future King