Dexter links and more Tudor recs
Dec. 20th, 2006 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakIt's the season for much business, and I still have ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fandom_muses and theatrical_muse stuff to write. However, I'm still wibbling from the fantastic Dexter season finale, so I was very glad to find these two examples of fanfic:
Penumbra: Dexter and Deb, post-Born Free. Stark and beautiful.
Five Things That Never Happened To The Icetruck Killer. What the title says, and as all the best "Five Things..." exploring the character we know via those alternate routes.
In other news, if you recall Sovereign by C. Sansom which I recommended a while ago, I caught up on the other two books preceeding that one, Dissolution and Dark Fire, and they are fabulous, especially Dissolution. In Germany, we have a tendency to take the English Reformation not that seriously (as opposed to our very own Martin Luther and of course all ensuing religious wars culminating much, much later in the 30-years-war), due to it owing its going state-wise to Henry VIII.'s marital antics, so it's always striking to read a portrait of Tudor times where the author gets across how life and death serious it was for the ordinary people in England at the time. Kudos for the most interesting portrait of Thomas Cromwell I've seen as well. (I'm more familiar with the ruthless flunky characterisation, whereas Sansom goes for Cromwell as a serious reformer using the ruthless powerplaying not just for self benefit but to push forward the Reformation agenda.) Reading these two books also made me appreciate that Sansom's detective, Matthew Shardlake, changes in the course of the three books so far, which isn't always the case in mystery series'. So, again: great portraits of Tudor England - get out and read them!
fandom_muses and theatrical_muse stuff to write. However, I'm still wibbling from the fantastic Dexter season finale, so I was very glad to find these two examples of fanfic: Penumbra: Dexter and Deb, post-Born Free. Stark and beautiful.
Five Things That Never Happened To The Icetruck Killer. What the title says, and as all the best "Five Things..." exploring the character we know via those alternate routes.
In other news, if you recall Sovereign by C. Sansom which I recommended a while ago, I caught up on the other two books preceeding that one, Dissolution and Dark Fire, and they are fabulous, especially Dissolution. In Germany, we have a tendency to take the English Reformation not that seriously (as opposed to our very own Martin Luther and of course all ensuing religious wars culminating much, much later in the 30-years-war), due to it owing its going state-wise to Henry VIII.'s marital antics, so it's always striking to read a portrait of Tudor times where the author gets across how life and death serious it was for the ordinary people in England at the time. Kudos for the most interesting portrait of Thomas Cromwell I've seen as well. (I'm more familiar with the ruthless flunky characterisation, whereas Sansom goes for Cromwell as a serious reformer using the ruthless powerplaying not just for self benefit but to push forward the Reformation agenda.) Reading these two books also made me appreciate that Sansom's detective, Matthew Shardlake, changes in the course of the three books so far, which isn't always the case in mystery series'. So, again: great portraits of Tudor England - get out and read them!
