Having been left without any more Game of Thrones, I have started to watch The White Princess about Elizabeth of York, married to Henry VII after Bothwell. Continue reading “The White Princess”
Jo Baker
Surprise, surprise! The last week of the How to Read a Novel course focuses on setting and the examples come from “A country road. A Tree” by Jo Baker. I loved the excerpts, later discovering she was a woman and English, so I was not prejudiced in her favour. Continue reading “Jo Baker”
How to read a novel.
This is the title of a Future Learn course (Open University) I’m doing which examines plot, characters, dialogue, point of view and setting (next week). The experts have chosen extreme examples: ‘The Sport of Kings’ by C.E.Morgan which seems to go backwards and forwards, speeds up and slows down, with different points-of-view, to a confusing extent. Continue reading “How to read a novel.”
Game of Thrones
I just finished watching all the episodes there are so far of Game of Thrones and I wonder why it is so popular. I read five books and decided not to read more, the characters being so dispersed that I lost the thread of the story. However, the series seems to drop some threads and gather together the remaining ones. Continue reading “Game of Thrones”