this is the point where I admit with a hangdog expression that even though I majored in history, battle scenes make my eyes glaze over

beth, Infamous Army is less about Waterloo than it is about Brussels and the people (real and fictional) that she's writing about. ALthough she covers the battle, it's not a huge long unbroken battle scene; she does it as much through personalities as through description. It's actually my favourite fictionalised take on Waterloo and the events of that summer; I prefer hers to Thackeray's.

And I know what you mean. Also history major, but most battle scenes? Yaaaaaaawn. Maybe it's because too many of them take them on as somehow heroic, the Grand Sweeping Pageant Of Military Glory.

And I do not now and never have for one moment drunk the Kool-Aid that produces a belief in the rightness of the Grand Sweeping Pageant Of Military Glory.

Also? Don't give a rat's ass about the linear progression of tactics. I want the setting, and I want to care about the people involved. Heyer did that, in spades.

I read Infamous Army sometime in my high school years. I remember skimming through large chunks. It is one of the few of hers that I never reread. I bet I'd feel differently about it now.

I adore Infamous Army. Heyer intertwines the lives of the characters and the battle so naturally and seamlessly that the amoutn of work that went into the piece never shows. The scene where Babs and Judith bond over tea after tending the wounded all day? Brilliant.

The scene where Babs and Judith bond over tea after tending the wounded all day? Brilliant.

Gods, yes. Perfection.

And during the battle itself, what held and kept me were the POVs of people I'd come to care about. Charles, watching a close friend get hit, calling out to another friend shortly after to see if he knew anything, and finding an even closer friend dying nearby...

Crikey. I love that damned book.

Has anyone read Woman Thou Art Loosed ?

The movie is being released and I'd kinda like to read it. The little girl on a show I watch is gonna be in it and I'm curious if it's any good.

So, I finally read Bet Me, and now I'm all awwwww and mushy. Glad to read a nice fun book, after The Mermaids Singing. Also, I had an experience with the current round of library books I've never had -- TWO books I couldn't bring myself to finish. Kind of a bummer.

You know, whenever the whole "I don't find X attractive" conversations come up, and people always say, "Hey, fine, more for me?" I'm always on the "more for me" side.

Is that bad?

Is that bad?

Mostly it means you're EASY.

I finally read Bet Me, and now I'm all awwwww and mushy

Hee. That's just the buzz I got.

oh good . I just grabbed Bet me as it came in the door at the library today