The Vintage Reader

Another good mail day: I got The Pendragon, by Catherine Christian. It's just what you think it is--the legend of Arthur. But told by Bedivere, as an old man, looking back. As I recall, the author intended to strip out the romance and write it as a sheerly historical novel; that's a fairly common way to treat the legend now, but I guess, judging from the author's note, that it wasn't done so much back then (1978).

I used to read this book every spring. And then I changed jobs and no longer had borrowing privileges from the library that had it, and nearly every year since then I've thought about trying to track it down. This year, I finally did. So now I can see if it's as good as I remember it. Great weekend reading!