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[wiseheart]

I found a few gift bonuses for books that would run out on December 31. It made me possible to buy the complete edition of The Once and Future King by T.H. White.

I've been flirting with that book for some time, but it didn't seem important enough to spend all that money on it. But now that it only cost me some 20 Eurocents (the rest was the bons), I brought it anyway. One Arthurian book in English I have to possess, right?

Edit:
Oh! Oh! After the first two paragraphs I realized that I've actually read this book. Almost thirty years ago, in Hungarian translation. I seem to remember that I liked it a lot. It was one of those books I sold or gave away when I went to the convent in 1985, thinking that I won't need them anymore. I never managed to get most of them again. I'm pleased to have found at least one, and in original, too.

But since I've already read it, it could wait a little. Perhaps I'd start with the Mabinogion instead. Of course, if it were a new Brother Cadfael story, I won't be able to ignore it, but a girl has to have priorities, n'est-ce pas?

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The sad truth is, after "War and Peace" I didn't have the moral strength to touch anything Tolstoy-related. I was so bored out of my mind that I decided to save me the pain next time. I don't question the possibility that the short stuff is better, but... well, I give up too easily, it seems.