And yes. That's it exactly. When I was fourteen, I ate up the melodrama; now I can reread, and pat the melodrama gently on its head, and still dive headfirst into the wit and the detail and the characterizations and Danny Hislop.
I was so very excited to trace the chain back of Scarlet Pimpernel ----> Lord Peter Wimsey ---> Francis Lymond. (I keep meaning to read Mary Doria Russell - I've heard very good things, so I have to figure out if they stock her at our university library, which is oddly arranged and erratic. But I am newly excited to find she's a Dunnet reader!)
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And yes. That's it exactly. When I was fourteen, I ate up the melodrama; now I can reread, and pat the melodrama gently on its head, and still dive headfirst into the wit and the detail and the characterizations and Danny Hislop.
I was so very excited to trace the chain back of Scarlet Pimpernel ----> Lord Peter Wimsey ---> Francis Lymond. (I keep meaning to read Mary Doria Russell - I've heard very good things, so I have to figure out if they stock her at our university library, which is oddly arranged and erratic. But I am newly excited to find she's a Dunnet reader!)