Pope, Elizabeth Marie - The Sherwood Ring

Finally read The Sherwood Ring, by Elizabeth Marie Pope, which has been sitting around for the past year or so. For some reason, when I first got it from Amazon, I just wasn't in the right mood to read it, but recently I really want historical stuff and it was just right. Bought it because Pope had also written The Perilous Gard, one of my favorite books from childhood/adolescence.

( Spoilers )

Now I really want to reread The Perilous Gard, which is not really a retelling of Tam Lin so much as a melody in the same key. Mostly I want a nice, chewy historical novel with some fantasy or mythology thrown in. Borrown Delia Sherman's The Porcelain Dove from the library, which is on France in the 1700s (I think), Jane Eyre (to compare with Jenna Starborn), LeGuin's Tales from Earthsea (need to find Other Wind), and Patricia A. McKillip's The Cygnet and the Firebird, which I tried to read once many years ago and could never make my way through... same with the Riddlemaster series. I should try those again some time.

Links:
- minnow1212's review

The coolest thing ever

(aka Oyce is easily impressed)

Here. Put in an image and watch the fun.

Panics

Have finally got Premiere. Installed Premiere. Looked at Premiere for about three seconds and freaked out and ran away.

Also am not sure how to rip my DVD to MPEG or AVI.

I feel I am not meant to be a vidder.

Seriously though. With Photoshop it was easier because I had the boy, who nominally knows how to use Photoshop. So I watched him diddle around and made him do things, and picked up enough of the basics enough so that I could just press random buttons and see what effects they had. Unfortunately, the boy doesn't know Premiere so I can't watch him. And I started reading the help files, but my brain completely zonked out. I don't understand any of the terminology and there's no helpful person sitting next to me pushing buttons and showing me how it's done.

Hrmph.