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Tag: I LOVE SCHEMES

Ed Brubaker’s Captain America: Meh.

Whenever my family discusses which superheroes various NFL quarterbacks would be, everyone agrees that Drew Brees would be Captain America. I agree too, I guess, but it bums me out because Captain America is sort of (sorry! sorry! sorry! but he is) boring. And Drew Brees is not boring. In real life it is heartwarming, not dull, for someone to be all the time kind and good. Randon always says: “I think you should read some more Captain America comics. I think you’d like him if you read some of his comics.” And I say, “Mmmmmmmm, I don’t think so.”…

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The Sunne in Splendour, Sharon Kay Penman

And now, the Plantagenets and the Wars of the Roses. Can someone British please tell me how British schoolchildren feel about learning the Wars of the Roses? Because I can see it two ways. On one hand, I can imagine it would be a great relief to get out of the thicket of battles and mess and dethronings and usurpations and arguing that went on all through the fifteenth century. On the other hand, I love political scheming and the Wars of the Roses are all schemes all the time. The Sunne in Splendour (Amazon, B&N, Book Depository) is about…

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