50 book challenge. Book 11.
Apr. 1st, 2007 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deliriumcrowMirror, Mirror, Gregory Maguire
So I finally fot around to reading this, after having it on my shelf for ... oh, untold years. I bought it when I aws still in New York.
It was absorbing, and rahter surprising, ans a perfect mix of teh old story of Anow White and Renaissance Italy. Lucrezia Borgia was almost sympathetic, or maybe I just wanted her to be, as I had always thought that it was primarily a smear campaign against her. The swarves appear a few times as invisible watchers before they enter the story, which adds a strange depth to them, as they describe the state before Bianca, before being defined. And then there's the Apple -- not just any old thing from any old tree, no this was the First Apple, from Eden. more interesting layers to the story, relating also to the story of the dwarves. Definitino, self-definition, the limitations and expanded potentials afforded by both. It leads rather wall, actually, into the book I"m currently reading. (Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, about which I will not be posting, as I have already read it. Seeing as I already have 11 books by 1 April, this does not really seem to be a problem.)
So I finally fot around to reading this, after having it on my shelf for ... oh, untold years. I bought it when I aws still in New York.
It was absorbing, and rahter surprising, ans a perfect mix of teh old story of Anow White and Renaissance Italy. Lucrezia Borgia was almost sympathetic, or maybe I just wanted her to be, as I had always thought that it was primarily a smear campaign against her. The swarves appear a few times as invisible watchers before they enter the story, which adds a strange depth to them, as they describe the state before Bianca, before being defined. And then there's the Apple -- not just any old thing from any old tree, no this was the First Apple, from Eden. more interesting layers to the story, relating also to the story of the dwarves. Definitino, self-definition, the limitations and expanded potentials afforded by both. It leads rather wall, actually, into the book I"m currently reading. (Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, about which I will not be posting, as I have already read it. Seeing as I already have 11 books by 1 April, this does not really seem to be a problem.)
