Vampire Diaries 2.15

What alternate universe am I living in where John Gilbert is suddenly more tolerable than Alaric Saltzman?

( spoilers were actually VERY HAPPY about this ep for the most part )

Isolde books

Last week (or maybe the week before) I tried reading Rosalind Miles’s Isolde trilogy. I made it about 40 pages before I was overwhelmed by how all other women were lesser being than Isolde and how her mother hated her forever and was eternally jealous of Isolde’s youth and beauty. Oh, and Isolde was Christian, and so far better and more progressive and virtuous than those pagan hussies with their icky rituals. (It was like a reverse of the Guinevere issue in the Mists of Avalon,/em> mini, save that it showed up immediately and there wasn’t a lot of pre-existing redeeming value.)

So, that was a bust. Hopefully her Guinevere trilogy is better. Because I have all of it.

Anyway, I have these other Isolde books, and am wondering if people have Thoughts about them.

The White Raven by Diana L. Paxson: Then one sounds like a Lets Try To Present It As Real History Would Have Been version.

Prince of Dreams by Nancy McKenzie: This one looks like it goes straight for adapting the Epic Myth aspect.

Iseult by Dee Morrison Meaney: Sounds like it focuses more on the romantic aspect than anything else.