New Leaf Nominations for April 2019 • The Way I Heard It: Retellings

[Catlady]

Well, (1) this book is fiction, and (2) I don't want to give anything away, even with spoiler tags.

I'll just say that the author skillfully created a plausible story and did not do violence to historical facts.

[Bookpossum]

I would have been interested to read Compulsion, but unfortunately is is expensive, and neither of my libraries has a copy.

I assume that the Hitchcock film Rope was based on the same case.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

I would have been interested to read Compulsion, but unfortunately is is expensive, and neither of my libraries has a copy.

I assume that the Hitchcock film Rope was based on the same case.

Yes, it was, but pretty loosely, and Rope deals only with the murder, not the trial. There's a film version of Compulsion that I remember as being quite good--Bradford Dillman and Dean Stockwell play the murderers and Orson Welles plays the lawyer.

[Bookpossum]

Ah, the name was familiar, but I hadn't linked it to that film, which is one I have never seen. Thanks for that.

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by bfisher

Thanks so much for nominating H Is For Hawk. It inspired a whole train of reading for me; I thought it was one of the best books I read that year.

I love this quote below.

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

[BenG]

Originally Posted by bfisher

Anyway, I'm glad the title was raised. I've had it on my TBR for several years now since reading H Is For Hawk and The Goshawk. I'm hoping to get to it this summer.

The Sword in the Stone as a separate book is somewhat different from the version in The Once and Future King. It has several episodes cut and replaced by scenes from The Book of Merlyn, which was never published in White's lifetime.

The Once and Future King version does not have Wart's encounters with Madame Mim or the giant Galapas.

[bfisher]

I've heard that it has a very chequered publishing history (appropriate for a retelling theme ). I'm planning on reading it in the 1958 collected version as book 1 of The Once And Future King.

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl

I love this quote below.

Yes, that's the most wonderful thing about books; the endless possibilities on offer. You never know where the next book will lead you.

I love the ending of Silverlock where Shandon doesn't take the third drink from Hippocrene because he wants to keep wandering in the Commonwealth - perfectly understandable.

[Victoria]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

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Well, crud, no Kindle version available in the US. That stinks. Why does this seem to happen every month?

I'll be back...

Originally Posted by Dazrin

I was going to nominate The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart which, of the ones I have read, is my favorite of the Arthur (or specifically Merlin) retellings.
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Hi Dazrin - I just wanted to pass that Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave is back in the US kindle store. I double checked, because I remembered buying Arthur saga as a single volume a number of years ago. However, it was subsequently removed from the store.

A new publisher has now brought them out again, as single volumes, along with several of her mysteries. They’re also on for a good price right now.

[Dazrin]

Originally Posted by Victoria

Hi Dazrin - I just wanted to pass that Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave is back in the US kindle store. I double checked, because I remembered buying Arthur saga as a single volume a number of years ago. However, it was subsequently removed from the store.

A new publisher has now brought them out again, as single volumes, along with several of her mysteries. They’re also on for a good price right now.

Do you have a link? I only see the audiobook at Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+cryst...ref=nb_sb_noss

[Victoria]

I know - it’s hard to find. I erased my first message, because after posting, I couldn’t find it in the regular list under her name in the kindle store - I had to search for it. I hope this works: https://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Cave-...W2CF4Z7TQSYJ4V

[Victoria]

Book 2: https://www.amazon.com/Hollow-Hills-...FSNRDQTA82R22Q

Book 3: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Enchantm...FSNRDQTA82R22Q

Book 4: https://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Day-Ar...FSNRDQTA82R22Q

[Dazrin]

Originally Posted by Victoria

I know - it’s hard to find. I erased my first message, because after posting, I couldn’t find it in the regular list under her name in the kindle store - I had to search for it. I hope this works: https://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Cave-...W2CF4Z7TQSYJ4V

It will let you buy that in the US? I see the listing but it returns "This title is not currently available for purchase" for all four titles.

[Victoria]

Gosh - I’m sorry about that! I just bought the first book to test it, and it worked fine. However, I’m a Canadian but have my kindle account with the US amazon (it predates ebooks being sold via Canadian Amazon). So maybe there is a geographic limitation with the book....I occasionally run into that in reverse. Darn!

[Bookpossum]

If you have an Australian account with Kobo you can get the four books in one volume under the title of Legacy for $A8.85. Pretty odd when the individual books are $A12.99! I don’t know about Amazon as I don’t deal with them.