Comments on: TSS – And the work sets in

By: Hillary

Hillary — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:42:13 +0000

I think I will have to get a copy of the Heretic Queen. I read so many positive reviews for it that it makes me want to read it.

By: Carey

Carey — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:01:59 +0000

Sounds like you are having a good time so far! I would be fascinated to be steeped in the history, too. How do you ever find time to sleep between reading for school & reading for fun? The Heretic Queen was great, I’ll be so interested to read your interview with Michelle and your review!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:37:52 +0000

You are a reading machine. I have Nefertiti and The Heretic Queen in my TBR pile. I think I’m just going to have to make time to read them.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:07:38 +0000

Wow, that is so cool about the tomb tester! Believe it or not, I’m a medieval geek, too, so I can appreciate that.

I have The Greatest Knight on my bookshelf to read–it’s been praised to no end by several people, so I really need to get to it soon. I read The Rose of Sebastopol a while ago and was quite lukewarm about it.

By: Shana @ Literarily

Shana @ Literarily — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:55:51 +0000

Meghan, I’m a little envious of you too, girl

The Rose of Sebastopol sounds really good. Is it released already in the UK?

By: Memory

Memory — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:48:43 +0000

The tomb testers sound fascinating! Every time you write about your studies, my jealousy goes up another notch.

I’m looking forward to your review of Victory of Eagles. I’ve got it on tap for next week too.

By: S. Krishna

S. Krishna — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:27:01 +0000

I’m looking forward to your review of The Greatest Knight – I have heard rave reviews of that book. And have I mentioned that I am totally covetous of your life right now? (Besides the not having time to read part, of course)

By: Marg

Marg — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:22:24 +0000

I will be interested to hear what you think of The Rose of Sebastopol. I read it earlier this year and thought it was a bit flat, but I am surprised that there isn’t more fiction written with that setting. Surely Florence Nightingale must be famous enought and interesting enough to have more books written about her nurses and also the Crimean war.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:13:32 +0000

At the conference they said that tomb testers originate from the original deathbed. Basically, if you were dying, there was a special bed where you’d be placed to die, and on the tester were images of God and the trinity and other religious imagery. I don’t know if this is true as I haven’t researched or heard this independently myself, it was just what was said yesterday as someone asked the exact same question! A natural extension of that is the tomb tester, so the deceased could in theory gaze up at God forever. It makes sense even without the deathbed theory though, doesn’t it? There used to be many more testers, we can see in drawings, but there are very few surviving now.

It’s been fun so far! I’m glad I’m still managing to fit in some reading. Wendy, I hope you enjoy The Heretic Queen like Alyce and I did!

By: Literary Feline

Literary Feline — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:00:12 +0000

The conference you attended yesterday sounds fascinating–not boring at all! I am glad to hear you enjoyed The Heretic Queen so much. I am looking forward to reading that one myself one of these days. I look forward to reading the author’s guest post tomorrow. Have a great week, Meghan!