Susan Hated Literature

Can someone explainify this to me? I know the basics, you know that you’re supposed to hit the balls and that a six is a good thing. But the rest of it, wooooosh, straight over my head.

Random fact; before the arrival of the GAA and the Land League campaign cricket was hugely popular in Ireland.

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Carl is running another challenge, and this time I’m going to join in. And I think I’m going to do Quest 3:

Read at least one book from each of the four genres of story, and finish up the challenge with a June reading of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

And the categories are: Mythology, Folktale, Fairy Tale, and
Fantasy.

• For the Fairy Tale category I’m going to go with Neil Gaiman’s Stardust. First of all because Carl recommended it. Second of all because I’m a big Gaiman fan, yet haven’t managed to read this one yet. Thirdly it is being made into a film and I know I’ll want to see it, so may as well read the book too.
• My mythology read will be Morgan Llewllyn’s On Raven’s Wing. This is a reread, but it has been a while, and it is an old favourite of mine. It’s a retelling of The Táin, or The Cattle raid of Cooley saga in Irish mythology. If you’ve ever been by the GPO in Dublin you may have seen a bronze statue in the window, that is Cúchulainn, the hero of On Raven’s Wing.
• For folklore I’m a bit unsure, but as Carl mentioned that de Lint fits in here, and as I’ve just picked up The Blue Girl by him I’ll probably go with this one. Can’t hurt now can it? I love that cover, although now thinking about it having a cover with a young girl in vaguely revealing clothes and with a title like Blue Girl might suggest something else entirely
• And finally, the Fantasy category I’ve taken a look through some of my unread books and think I’ll go with Celtika by Robert Holdstock. It also fits in with the general mythology theme that is almost going on with the other books.

And then there’ll be A Midsummer Night’s Dream which I’ve never read before, although I have seen a film version. Plus I may add a few more titles to the list when I think about it again. All depends how many I get through between now and June 21st, doesn’t it.

* Long long ago, the Irish version of Once Upon a Time

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Author: Sherri S Tepper
ISBN: 0006482694 DDC: 813.54
See also: LibraryThing ; Mia’s Booklist ; Infinity Plus review ; The Speculative Life

Grass!
Millions of square miles of it; numberless wind-whipped tsunamis of grass, a thousand sun-lulled caribbeans of grass, a hundred rippling oceans, every ripple a gleam of scarlet of amber, emerald or turquoise, multicolored as rainbows, the colors shivering over the prairies in stripes and blotches, the grass - some high, some low, some feathered, some straight - making their own geography as they grow.

This was an impulse purchase, I’ve read one or two others by Tepper and although I enjoyed them I do think that she has a tendency to be a little preachy in her books. However if the story is good enough I’m willing to overlook that, and I’d have to say that I really enjoyed this novel. Set at some point far in the future when humankind has colonised many different worlds, the majority of this book takes place on the planet Grass, among the insular bon as the aristocrats are called.

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