{"id":36671,"date":"2019-05-06T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T18:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36671"},"modified":"2019-05-05T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T02:46:15","slug":"gorgeous-words-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/05\/06\/gorgeous-words-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gorgeous Words&#8221; Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6592\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/riddlemaster_of_hed_3-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/riddlemaster_of_hed_3-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/riddlemaster_of_hed_3-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/riddlemaster_of_hed_3.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/>On Thursday, I linked to my current <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supernatural Underground<\/a> (SU) post and Intalment #3 of my <strong>Year Of Romance in Fantasy post series<\/strong> there: <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/romance-in-fantasy-fiction-constancy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Constancy Amid Tumult<\/a>, which features Patricia McKillip\u2019s <strong>Riddlemaster<\/strong> trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, I also refer to Patricia McKillip\u2019s \u201cgorgeous writing\u201d \u2013 which featured in a post series here a few years back, titled <strong>\u201cGorgeous Words.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writing the SU post sparked me to have a quick re-read of the Gorgeous Words post &#8212; and also made me think you might enjoy doing the same. In which case, the post is here:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/gorgeous-words-patricia-mckillip-the-riddle-master-of-hed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Gorgeous Words: Patricia McKillip and <em>The Riddle-Master Of Hed<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-24669\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Madam-Will-You-Talk-84x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Madam-Will-You-Talk-84x150.jpg 84w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Madam-Will-You-Talk-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 84px) 100vw, 84px\" \/>The other posts in the Gorgeous Words mini-series are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/03\/05\/gorgeous-words-mary-stewart-madam-will-you-talk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Mary Stewart and <em>Madam, Will You Talk<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/04\/06\/gorgeous-words-mary-renault-the-praise-singer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Mary Renault and <em>The Praise Singer<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/gorgeous-words-guy-gavriel-kay-tigana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Guy Gavriel Kay and <em>Tigana<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/10\/31\/gorgeous-words-barbara-hambly-the-ladies-of-mandrigyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Barbara Hambly and <em>The Ladies of Mandrigyn<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you love gorgeous writing as well as great storytelling they may be worth a look, or a re-look if you have the time. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Happy Monday!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-24945\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Praise-Singer-97x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Praise-Singer-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Praise-Singer-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Praise-Singer.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 97px) 100vw, 97px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-29128\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tigana-92x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tigana-92x150.jpg 92w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tigana-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tigana.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-30390\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ladies-of-Mandrigyn-90x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ladies-of-Mandrigyn-90x150.jpg 90w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ladies-of-Mandrigyn-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ladies-of-Mandrigyn.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, I linked to my current Supernatural Underground (SU) post and Intalment #3 of my Year Of Romance in Fantasy post series there: Constancy Amid Tumult, which features Patricia McKillip\u2019s Riddlemaster trilogy. In the post, I also refer to Patricia McKillip\u2019s \u201cgorgeous writing\u201d \u2013 which featured in a post series here a few years [&hellip;]<\/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-36671","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\/36671","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=36671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36675,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36671\/revisions\/36675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}