Promote your favorite Sutcliff book(s)!

[isis]

We're going to post the Sutcliff Swap rules and schedule, and open for sign-ups, Real Soon Now! But while you're waiting, why not squee about your favorite Sutcliff book in the comments here? This is your chance to remind others of that book they'd almost forgotten they'd loved, and inspire them to request or offer fanfiction or fanart for it. And if a book you haven't read sounds good to you, you can read it this summer and enjoy the fanworks created for it - and maybe you'll want to request it for Yuletide or Yuletart, or for next year's Sutcliff Swap. (Because this is going to be so much fun we will want to do it again!)

We're doing this on Dreamwidth only, so that we can use comment subject lines to identify the books we're talking about. If you don't have a Dreamwidth login, you can use OpenID or comment anonymously. ETA: anonymous commenting is now enabled! OpenID works too, which will email you comment replies. Please join in and promote your favorite Sutcliff books (this post has a list of all the books), and start thinking about what you might want to request and offer for the Sutcliff Swap!

Also, if you are intrigued by the descriptions of books you haven't read yet, you should be sure to join, not just watch, the community (at either site) so you can see locked posts. *cough*

Comments

Re: Dawn Wind

[isis]

I just read this recently! And I wasn't sure that I liked it that much, I think because I prefer the British to the Saxons. But I agree, I like the themes and the way they are expressed.

Re: Dawn Wind

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I think Sutcliff felt the same way: even in her version of Beowulf, she makes them seem... kind of small and less impressive than I think they probably should be. Obviously she knew about Sutton Hoo, but I think her reading of the Saxons is still shaped by older stories where they were primitive savages.

Re: Dawn Wind

[isis]

And of course she has made the Saxons out to be the villains in all the previous books in the series, the barbarians snuffing out the light, so it is hard to make the about-face in our brains that suddenly (in the real world time has passed of course, but we have just gone from (Sword at) Sunset to Dawn (Wind) in one book) the evil invaders are now the pastoral and innocent land-dwellers.