The Telling Pool
by David Clement-Davies
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Relying on true courage and true love, as well as some surprising connections to the Arthurian legends, a young Welsh teenager named Rhodri embarks on a quest to remove an ancient curse from Great Britain during the reign of Richard the Lionheart.Tags
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A true fantasy. A coming of age story, with love, lust, and magic. Left me wanting more.
Amazing book. Don't read it if you value 2 or so weeks where you can't even think about reading anything else. After you are finished.
I'm not sure why I picked this up - I've never been interested in Arthurian stuff (except, iirc, The Book of Merlyn three decades ago). Something about it just calls out to me 'read me' though, so I'll try.
Ok, I only got to p. 25. Sorry. I read the reviews and understand that, for me, the book isn't worth my time compared to all the others on my TBR mountain.
Ok, I only got to p. 25. Sorry. I read the reviews and understand that, for me, the book isn't worth my time compared to all the others on my TBR mountain.
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David Clement-Davies traveled to Romania in the winter of 1990. The darkness of the country's recent history, its many tales and superstitions from Dracula to local folklore, gave this book its direction. The writing of The Sight was done in a little mountain house in the Andalucia region of Spain, where Mr. Clement-Davies lives for much of the show more year. show less
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- Original publication date
- 2005
- Epigraph
- Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcom cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of ... (show all)innocence is drowned. - W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming | Miri it is while sumer ilast with fugheles song. Oc nu necheth windes blast and weder strong. Ei, Ei! What this night is long! And ich with well michel wrong soregh and murne and fast. - Old English Plaint
- Dedication
- For Paul and Detta
- First words
- I caught this mornings morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon...
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Then Rhodri dropped Dusk's tether and, with Melanor on his fist, the falconer was running, running back toward his home and his parents.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Fantasy, Teen, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .C59116 .T — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- English
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