Books read 2012

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*The Reluctant Widow, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Friday’s Child, Georgette Heyer (read aloud with Steve)
Dragon Ship manuscript, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (e)
Kim, Rudyard Kipling (e)
Regency Buck, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter (e)
Chimera, Rob Thurman (e)

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*The Reluctant Widow was the very first Heyer I ever read and includes the character on which Pat Rin yos’Phelium is based. In which “is based” obviously does not mean “was snabbled up and copied, word-for-word and action-by-action” but does mean that I thought a very great deal about what sort of man would behave in the way this character is shown as behaving, what sort of training he must have had, with a side dish of how doing the right thing is so very often thankless, and even personally painful.

Edited to add:  Steve reminds me that the character above also got me to thinking about the dangerous person who doesn’t present as dangerous — something that we play with quite a lot in the Liaden Universe® — and indeed isn’t dangerous. . .until and unless necessity exists.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

Pat Rin

[claire774.livejournal.com]

I have to write a bit more about Pat Rin. He is like the heroes of the old West...the gun slingers who protect the town from the bad men, the Marshalls who maintain the law when there is no law, the punishers of the evil doers who prey on the weak and defenseless.

In Buddhism it is said that the Buddha converted lots of demons to the Dharma or the Law. They became known as the Dharmapala the protectors of the Law. They can be recognized by their belts of skulls dripping with blood. Fearsome types you don't want to meet if you are up to no good.

The Scarlett Pimpernell who saves aristocrats from the evils of the French Revolution.

Nicholas Cage is reprising his role these days as the Ghost Rider in "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance". When chasing after evil doing demons the Ghost Rider turns into a man with a skull of flame who rides a motorcycle and hunts down the bad demons wherever he finds them.

Pat Rin reminds me of all of those. And, if you are a good person? Well then, Pat Rin isn't dangerous to you.