Here's To You, Mrs. Robinson

[prosodic]

I love it when I find a book that is difficult to put down. And when I do have to put it down, all I can think about is when I can pick it back up again.

I just finished All For Love: The Scandalous Life and Times of Royal Mistress Mary Robinson.

Wow. I mean...wow!

I have to write up a review of it, so I won't go into any detail about it here. But I absolutely enjoyed it.

And Mary Robinson's name was so familiar to me for some reason, and I couldn't quite figure out why...finally the novel revealed to me why she's familiar.

She is the poet who wrote Sappho & Phaeon, one of the works I had on my MA comprehensive exam list, and ultimately one that played a critical part in what happened during my exam. While that poem has remained etched in my memory, and not in a good way, the poet's name had escaped my mind. Until now.

Still...a fascinating woman, and a fascinating read. I will probably hold off on the review until tomorrow, since I want to give myself a day to savor it and think about it. But I have no doubt that the review will come easily to me when I do sit down to write it.

Comments

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as for The Other Boleyn Girl, have you read the book? The trailer for the movie suggests that it doesn't follow the book closely at all. In fact, it looks like Mary Boleyn steals Henry VIII from Anne, when in the book, it was the other way around.

[katzies.livejournal.com]

I've read it but I didn't like it all that much. The story was interesting but I found the writing a little dull.