“in the minds of all the great lords/ Lies the image of the split Table and of surreptitious swords”

Wednesday reading, right.

Read aloud:

Bone, Jeff Smith -- Rest of volume 5 plus v6. (Don't have v7 in hand, so we've been forced, forced I tell you, to reread random volumes of Monkey King.)

Plus, one major omission from last week's catchup: I've been retelling Greek myths to Eaglet for much of the last year, including memorably retelling as much of the Odyssey as I can remember, out of order, in installments during bathtime -- plus we've read several shorter children's books here and there. Last month, we finally got to D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths. That took several days.

Reading in progress to self:

Got distracted from Chinese webnovels by two things:

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Less Wrong -- Which, man, is so much fun, the way hyper-Ravensclaw Harry pokes at every. Single. Dubious. Worldbuilding. that Rowling tosses up. And for several other reasons.

Under One Banner, Graydon Saunders -- rereading book 4 of the Commonweal series, to prep for #5 (recently out) as that's the second half of the story.

---L.

Subject quote from Lamorack and the Queen Morgause of Orkney, Charles Williams.