Saturday afternoons are the best times...
Mar. 18th, 2006 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmith...but Saturday mornings aren't bad either.
Took myself to the Carthage College library today and signed up for their special borrowing program so that I could borrow books like this one mentioned in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala's LJ. Picked it up today, along with two others, Antonia Fraser's bio of James I and something entitled The Cabal by Maurice Lee, Jr., which frankly I picked up because of the title and which appears to discuss among other things the machinations of some Charles II nobles the initials of whose surnames spelled out--wait for it--CABAL (Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, and Lauderdale). I don't know if I'll have time to read it, but one comment in the prologue make me chuckle:
"Charles did have mistresses and bastards, etc., etc., and he and his women--the virago Castlemaine, Mistress Stewart, beautiful but dumb, and pretty, witty Nell--will always be popular with what has been called the "bedspring and chamber pot school" of historical writing. "
Now that I have access to the library, I will need to do a better job of picking books that actually apply to stories I want to write. But the Young book seems worthwhile in any case. I've read Fraser before and liked her, but her book is referenced in the Young book and her attitude, judging by the quotes used, seems sniffy.
The drive to the college was nice. It's located along Lake Michigan, and ever though the wind was blowing in across the very cold water and the temp was a shade nippy as a result, it was still a college on water with a library.
I now need to set aside the book and finish income tax spreadsheets. No, I have not finished them yet. Yes, I wanted to be finished last week.
Took myself to the Carthage College library today and signed up for their special borrowing program so that I could borrow books like this one mentioned in
matociquala's LJ. Picked it up today, along with two others, Antonia Fraser's bio of James I and something entitled The Cabal by Maurice Lee, Jr., which frankly I picked up because of the title and which appears to discuss among other things the machinations of some Charles II nobles the initials of whose surnames spelled out--wait for it--CABAL (Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, and Lauderdale). I don't know if I'll have time to read it, but one comment in the prologue make me chuckle:"Charles did have mistresses and bastards, etc., etc., and he and his women--the virago Castlemaine, Mistress Stewart, beautiful but dumb, and pretty, witty Nell--will always be popular with what has been called the "bedspring and chamber pot school" of historical writing. "
Now that I have access to the library, I will need to do a better job of picking books that actually apply to stories I want to write. But the Young book seems worthwhile in any case. I've read Fraser before and liked her, but her book is referenced in the Young book and her attitude, judging by the quotes used, seems sniffy.
The drive to the college was nice. It's located along Lake Michigan, and ever though the wind was blowing in across the very cold water and the temp was a shade nippy as a result, it was still a college on water with a library.
I now need to set aside the book and finish income tax spreadsheets. No, I have not finished them yet. Yes, I wanted to be finished last week.
