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The fated sky mary robinette kowal5/29/2023 (And thank goodness she did!) I learned that a demon famously inhabited her computer and that she was a dog lover, like me. I learned that her first manuscript for Sunne was stolen and it took years for her to find the heart to rewrite it from scratch. I found her fan forum (back in the days before Facebook). Of course I had to find out more about this amazing writer who could bring the past so vividly to life, who could write novels spanning decades with hundreds of characters and keep me hanging on to every word. And thus began my love affair with Sharon Kay Penman’s books. And then I found The Sunne in Splendour and When Christ and His Saints Slept. The next morning I was at the library when it opened to check out the other books in the trilogy. I couldn’t pronounce half the names, and I’d never even heard of Llywelyn Fawr, but I was riveted. For sixteen hours, I was thoroughly transported to 12 th– and 13 th-century Wales. I had all my favorite snacks and beverages, I had a fire going in the fireplace, my dogs at my feet, and I settled in to crack open a book I’d picked up from the library called Here Be Dragons. I had the house to myself for the entire weekend. It was a dark, rainy, cold October Saturday. And possibly the most memorable one of all was when I discovered Sharon Kay Penman. Sharon Kay Penman and Stephanie Churchill LingĮvery once in a while I have what I call a “reading moment.” When the stars align in the right place, at the right time, with the perfect book, and the result is an incredible and memorable reading experience.
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