master and commander rec

[cimorene]

prizes over discovery by keiko. the best part is that there are two sequels still to read on the morrow.

::squashes urge to write crossovers:: it's so tempting when two universes you love intersect--like this one and the regency novels set in the napoleonic war. how many returning navy and army heroes have i read? ahh. i could do the grand sophy mayhap. (which i tried to lend to wax, and she refused it. because it was romance. she said from the cover it looked like a bodice-ripper and didn't fully believe me when i said that it wasn't. but it isn't, really. it's a comedy of manners. heyer is lovable for witty dialogue and not for bodice ripping. i mean, if you read heyer for bodice ripping you're going to be sorely disappointed because the bodices barely come up at all, certainly not in any very suggestive way.)

Comments

[aynatonal.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Heyer covers are such a curse. I have nothing but trouble convincing people that they're perfectly respectable reads, full of clever dialogue and historical detail. My grandmother, who owns an entire set, has mostly covers from the mid-60s, which are greatly to be preferred.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

yeah, my mother's too. but she bought me my own copy and it's from the eighties. :\