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Enjoyed the audiobook.

My favorite from January was this excellent medieval fiction which is sort of adjacent to The Canterbury Tales. I loved this book so much. Medieval fiction is my favorite. I loved the perspective on how life could have been for women during the 1300‘s. It was so entertaining to me. I just felt like I was THERE, right in the story.

Thank you for hosting #12Booksof2023, @Andrew65!

I really enjoyed this. It's a highlight of my year. I read it in the morning for 20 to 40 minutes and relished it, reading only six or so pages at a sitting, for about 3 months.

I loved the humor, the language, the tone, the poetry of sound (and spelling), and the linguistic play. I‘m looking forward to Canterbury Tales.

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds edited by Robert P. Miller
📖 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, edited by Sarah E. Maier [ I collect editions of Tess - this is my 27th ]

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Recent acquisitions (birthday gifts from my family):

📖 Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury by Paul Strohm
📖 Robin Hood by Reginald de Koven, Adapted by Lous von Haupt as a Children's Opera-Story to be Played, Read, Sung, or Informally Dramatized
📖 English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages by E.K. Chambers

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Thank you for the tag @dabbe 🥰

1. The wife of bath in the Canterbury tales. Shouting down the male pilgrims to tell a fairytale story about consent and free choice for women 🎉
2. Death in the sandman series. Rereading this right now and I love her so much, maybe my favourite literary Death
3. Got to be Jane eyre - a classic never to be beaten

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Finally starting this - a Broadview press edition.

I‘m in holiday reading mode! My bf and I are in northern Italy for about a week and I‘ve got to say, I‘d forgotten how good it is having an air conditioned flat to sit in and read and no one needing me to be anywhere. I‘m trying to balance out some masters reading with some romance novels (but the romance novels are winning)

For starters, I am not a big fan of traditional prose, it is tedious, repetitive, and boring in execution, especially when written in Olde Middle English. Also, I can‘t fathom why this work has received such praise when I can think of a hundred other works that far exceed it in execution, storyline, character development, style, class, and especially a much more compelling plot than any of the tales that Chaucer had written. 1/5 at best.