7/3/2023 0 Comments The mist of avalon book seriesI was 14 years old when I first read The Mists of Avalon and - still one year away from a sophomore-year English class reading of John Gardner’s Grendel - had never before fully understood the intriguing nature of a legend told from an entirely different point of view. Written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and first published in 1982, it is a clever interpretation of the legend of King Arthur, including the Knights of the Round Table, Lancelot, Guinevere, and Morgan le Fay. The novel, The Mists of Avalon, became my first purchase with the babysitting money I’d saved. Here was a narrator who embodied all my girlhood fantasies of being queen of the woods behind my home, or a priestess who could harness the power of the wind. Now in truth I have come to be wise-woman, and a time may come when these things may need to be known. In my time I have been called many things: sister, lover, priestess, wise-woman, queen. The tome’s paperback cover was intriguing: a white swan a gold-hilted sword held aloft by an enrobed woman a handsome white steed, its hooves obscured in mist. Dalton’s bookstore, I discovered a tome – as thick as the Bible - which granted me access to a world I had theretofore never imagined existed. Once upon a summer in the mid-1980s, while perusing the shelves in a B. PANK’s Books We Can’t Quit series reviews books that are at least ten years old and have shadowed and shaded, infected and influenced, struck and stuck with us ever since we first read them.
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