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Book Backlog Busting Reading Challenge!

Okay, so it's been another hot minute. In my defence... um... Stardew Valley is a really fun game?

Okay, I haven't been spending all of my time gaming, I have been reading too! So here's my (condensed and no pretty pictures) list:

The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett. For some reason I just didn't find this gripping, which is strange because I loved another of Pratchett's books for younger readers (Amazing Maurice). I gotta admit that the ending got the tears going though.

Reformation Divided by Eamon Duffy. I love Duffy's work as a historian and this was no exception, providing an important counterbalance to the popular Protestant/Whiggish historical narrative. Quite dense, though, not recommended to a general audience.

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. Not flawless worldbuilding (the main issue being the tension between the author trying to write a feminist critique of the St George and the Dragon story, as well as building a fully realised fantasy world, which leads to things like a black man being told his religion is wrong by someone of a superior religion and culture, he's not allowed to politely ask that people don't disrespect his religion directly in front of him, and the narrative supporting this) but extremely compelling characters and I still enjoyed it immensely. Other fantasy authors should study how to tell a broad, epic narrative without eighty billion povs from Shannon too.

All Things Made New by Diarmaid MacCulloch. Really interesting studies, especially the meta historiographical essays, but I was lacking content for some of it. I need to look for more of his books.

Voices from Morebath by Eamon Duffy. Super interesting local study, Duffy strikes a good balance between the particulars of Morebath and using it as a (possible) generalising example. Very short book that I think would be interesting to general readers too!

Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan (Powder Mage Trilogy #1). Really fun, fast paced book with varied and interesting characters, gritty without becoming grim or too dark. The first time I've ever said this, but possibly a bit *over* worldbuilt, having no less than five different kinds of magic users in one story without any apparent unifying system, making it feel a bit like everything had just been shoved in there. Still, the story was never bogged down by exposition and I remain cautiously optimistic there is some kind of explanation forthcoming in the sequel books.

This leads me onto the topic of also books, but ones I haven't yet read. With my Wheel of Time boxset 4 finally arriving, I can pick up that series again and have added books 10-14 to my reading list. On top of that, per our house rule about sequels, I'm adding the other Powder Mage books to the list, so even though I have finished (brief count) 6 books since we last spoke, these additions lead me to say...

84 books remaining!

(Yes that means it did go up. I will still drag myself out of this bottomless pit of books somehow dammit.)

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hey rob im so sorry to do this to you but. i have another question for the fic ask game:

💋 - WHAT HAPPENS TO TUDOR!JIRVING?? IS HE OKAY??

in the devon village of morebath, up above the moors, lived a priest called sir christopher trychay. he was priest of the village from the year 1520; he blessed their children and marriages, he heard their sins, he buried their dead. he was a good catholic and an assiduous record-keeper (i would love him for this alone) and he did his best. during the henrician reformation, he was simply quiet; under edward, he rescued the images and cloths and valuable donations given by his flock. there are scribbled and scratched-over scraps of paper recording to whom the altar cloths and images of precious saints were given, to be hidden away in attics and barns where they could still matter, if quietly. his notes are frantic, careful, caring. he preserved those things that mattered, because his community loved them and he loved his community. during the marian counter-reformation he carefully, cautiously, began to resume those traditions in which he believed - but gently. some of his community kept their protestant ways, and he loved them too, and these were uncertain times, so he was careful. when elizabeth took the throne, he went softly back to the protestant traditions, rich velvet cloths kept reverently in sheepsheds and blanket chests. christopher trychay rode every wave of the reformation with the caution and care of a man who loved his community, for to stand up against the prevailing tide was to leave the people he had baptised, married and buried for (by his death in 1574) fifty-four years. he was quiet and careful and by god, was he a success. morebath was unvisited by violence; the community was never split by nasty confessional divides; their precious heritage, the donations of their ancestors, were kept safe. christopher trychay died in his bed, surrounded by his well-beloved community, and was buried amongst them - safe amongst the bones of his neighbours. i hope they rang bells at his funeral.

all this to say: the series is a love-letter to the reformation. in crozier i adore cromwell, in hodgson i praise thomas more's daughters and all the residents of biconfessional communities, and john irving is my attempt to tell christopher trychay that i love him, and all those good priests of every confession who were quiet and careful and loved their neighbours more than what religion those neighbours had, more than their own religions, more than their own souls. because i do love them. i can only hope to be so good.

so yeah. he's fine.

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