*Is full*

[highlyeccentric]

I had an old friend from uni over and we ate scones and biscuits and now I'm full of scone. And we talked 19th century literature until our ears fell off, whereupon I went to her place (she lives in the same block) and borrowed some books - neither of them 19th century. Mary Woolstonecroft and Seamus Heaney, in fact.

Lucy monster: she strongly recommended Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, which looks a) good and b) rather more your kind of thing than mine. Not strictly gothic, but it has Dracula in it... (Um, the wiki article has spoilers in it)

Comments

[xxlucyferxx.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that looks interesting! I'm going to have to read it now...

Not your thing? Aw, come on. You've read Portrait of a Lady. There's no turning back now.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

I like my gothic 19thc century, thankee. That book struck me as one of a class of faux-historial modern fiction which doesn't really interest me. Looked good, but not high on my reading priority list.

[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

(that's what it is. i didn't dig it too much but it's fairly entertaining.)

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

I bought Baudolino, on the other hand :D

[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

NICE. That's historical fiction as it should be done =)