Wednesday is Freaking
Feb. 3rd, 2010 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennythereaderBody: My lower back is not happy, and my gut is testy.
Book Review: I finished The Secret Garden last night. I'd forgotten how much of the story happens before Mary ever meets Colin, and how vague the author is about the day-to-day work of healing both the garden and Colin.
Reading: I started The Great Influenza last night. I had never realized just how late medicine in the US was awful, especially compared to Europe.
Hearing: Done working through my back-log of Marketplace episodes! Started on my BBC History Magazine podcasts.
Etsy find: A fun scarf
Project Follow-up: Found the jar! A half gallon mason jar is about $3.00 at Michaels, and it's more than big enough for the cherry cordial. I moved it, and added the concentrated cherry juice and an additional 2 cups of vodka. Filtering is planned for a couple of weeks from now.
Tonight's Project: I have all the pieces for my Wicked Faire accessories, tonight I plan on putting them together.
Randomness: One of my favorite sub-genres of speculative fiction is alternate history. Lately, I've been really in the mood for alternate histories of the 1500's, especially ones where the change point involves the Tudor rulers of England. Some scenarios that I think sound really interesting are:
- Arthur (Henry VIII's older brother and Katherine of Aragon's first husband) lived long enough that they weren't able to rationalize a way for her to marry Henry
- Arthur lived long enough to take the throne
- Edward or Mary managed to have a child who directly inherited the throne
- Elizabeth married and did or did not have a child
Does anyone know if anyone has explored any of these ideas? Or anything similar?
Book Review: I finished The Secret Garden last night. I'd forgotten how much of the story happens before Mary ever meets Colin, and how vague the author is about the day-to-day work of healing both the garden and Colin.
Reading: I started The Great Influenza last night. I had never realized just how late medicine in the US was awful, especially compared to Europe.
Hearing: Done working through my back-log of Marketplace episodes! Started on my BBC History Magazine podcasts.
Etsy find: A fun scarf
Project Follow-up: Found the jar! A half gallon mason jar is about $3.00 at Michaels, and it's more than big enough for the cherry cordial. I moved it, and added the concentrated cherry juice and an additional 2 cups of vodka. Filtering is planned for a couple of weeks from now.
Tonight's Project: I have all the pieces for my Wicked Faire accessories, tonight I plan on putting them together.
Randomness: One of my favorite sub-genres of speculative fiction is alternate history. Lately, I've been really in the mood for alternate histories of the 1500's, especially ones where the change point involves the Tudor rulers of England. Some scenarios that I think sound really interesting are:
- Arthur (Henry VIII's older brother and Katherine of Aragon's first husband) lived long enough that they weren't able to rationalize a way for her to marry Henry
- Arthur lived long enough to take the throne
- Edward or Mary managed to have a child who directly inherited the throne
- Elizabeth married and did or did not have a child
Does anyone know if anyone has explored any of these ideas? Or anything similar?
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Date: 2010-02-04 12:01 am (UTC)Elizabeth Bear has a set of books that are of course Fairy Reality set around Elizabethan times.
I know there are more, because I dearly love Tudor history myself, and I devour it all. Most of the ones I've read center around Elizabeth having Dudley or Seymour's bastard child, and how that child grows up. I don't think I've seen anything about Arthur, Katherine, Edward or Mary.
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Date: 2010-02-04 12:55 am (UTC)If you can remember any titles for the books about Elizabeth, I'd love to know them.