{"id":29186,"date":"2015-05-29T10:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T22:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29186"},"modified":"2015-05-28T21:24:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T09:24:34","slug":"gorgeous-words-guy-gavriel-kay-tigana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/gorgeous-words-guy-gavriel-kay-tigana\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorgeous Words: Guy Gavriel Kay & “Tigana”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tigana\"<\/a>Last week, my Fantasy Heroines That Rock My World<\/strong> series on SF Signal featured Dianora<\/a> from Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Slightly over a year ago now, I let you all in on a secret<\/a>: I Simply Adore Reading! Not only because “I love stories and storytelling”<\/em>, but also because I love “revelling in the gorgeousness of some writers’ way with words.”<\/em><\/p>\n

In order to prepare the Dianora post,\u00a0 I reread Tigana<\/em><\/strong> for the first time in some years — and revelled all over again in the gorgeousness of Guy Gavriel Kay’s words:<\/p>\n

“The two men were both gazing into the flames while all around them there was already a purposeful stir and bustle in the kitchen…In their silent gravity they seemed to him to be a part of a frieze, a tableau, emblematic in some complex way of all such predawn hours for those on the long road. Neither man was a stranger to this hour, Devin knew, to sitting before a castle’s kitchen fire among the servants in the last dark hour before dawn, easing into wakefulness and a fugitive warmth, preparing for the road again and whatever turnings it might offer in the day that had not yet begun.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I love the way he builds a picture that gives a sense of both world and characters, of events turning on a moment or an hour, and the emotional ebb and flow beneath them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, my Fantasy Heroines That Rock My World series on SF Signal featured Dianora from Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana. Slightly over a year ago now, I let you all in on a secret: I Simply Adore Reading! Not only because “I love stories and storytelling”, but also because I love “revelling in the gorgeousness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-other-writers","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29188,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29186\/revisions\/29188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}