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Trouble meant they had to listen, not fight. I played along, skimmed over the boring bits, stopped trying to make sense of names that appeared once or twice, then were swept away as the king's entourage moved on to the next manor, and relaxed into whatever intrigue was in motion at the moment. Hilda of Whitby—to vivid, absorbing life. Reading Hild is a lot like being cornered at a party by someone who has Did not finish. I feel like Griffiths has missed the mark with Hild. But as expected from a speculative fiction writer, Nicola Griffith is a master of world building and she employs her vast research only in service of the story. I loved the way Griffith wove in trade routes, weather patterns, and all manner of other considerations into her tale, without ever losing focus.

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This ability to observe implies that Hild is often living at the edge of things looking in from the outside and in many ways, especially given her growing reputation as seer to the king, this separation from others comes to define her.

Hild's amazing powers of observation allow her to make very accurate predictions and act as a king's most trusted advisor, from the time bicola a small girl right up through early adulthood.

With Nuanced Beauty, 'Hild' Destroys Myths Of Medieval Womanhood

It shows a believable 7th century reality, but it has persons of colour in roles that make sense for the time - including missionaries or traders. But, more than anything, what struck me was how knowledgeable it was. Learn how your comment data is processed. Griffith took this piece of information to create a society where relationships between women are formalised and important each?

She now lives in Seattle but says, "I'm the product of two thousand years of history. It is gorgeously written, set in Medieval England, covering the "history" of a powerful woman, St.

You must work for your reading pleasure just as the characters must work everyday to ensure their survival, but it is all leavened with wry humor, sex, and plenty of beer and mead. She's interesting but not enough to continue following the books. Hilda once lived, did a shit-ton of research into the middle ages and how women lived, and then decided to write this book.

But kings don't trust anyone, even nieces. It's true that I haven't seen it described elsewhere, but then, women's life is so rarely described in extant sources that invention of some kind is necessary.

There were a lot of words to puzzle out contextual meanings of as the glossary in the e-Galley was too complicated to keep flipping back and forth to and a lot of movements that would have been easier to visualize with a map. It was not a quick read in fact, it took me a full ten days to get through it, and I'm used to getting through novels on a three-day basis, more or less, unless I'm really terribly busy or distracted.

Hild is a world built fiber by fiber from the ground up, immersive as a river in rain. And now this long, chewy, delicious discussion of Hild by a litcrit book club.

Jan 27, Griffithh rated it it was ok. There is so griffih detail but it's the wrong kind of detail for me. Videos About This Book. This reader got bogged down in highly-and-repetitively-detailed world building and the army of characters with impossible names and a plot that lurched from battle to battle for reasons that I simply gave up I don't know when I last waffled so much considering how to rate and review a novel.

Hild, by Nicola Griffith 2 16 May 05, grifith Cranky old lady, signing out The world she depicts griftith real, textured, nuanced: Griffith has taken a handful of pages from the Venerable Bede and made a gift of them for us all, creating in Hild a passionate, unique and thoroughly unforgettable heroine. To read it felt like a privilege and a gift. You are dismissed within the narratives of the stories you love, which all too often cast you as a lover or a witch, a virgin or a crone, a sexy plot-device on two long, supple legs [.

And in the process we discover a new world. The Bastard Title Review: My three older brothers were avid incola of Dungeons and Dragons back in the day late 70s and I was allowed to play. After the death of her father, Hild becomes court Seer for her uncle. I was lost to the world reading it.

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This is a very dense read, I kept feeling that I should be organizing my note cards for it, something I did when writing history essays lo those many years ago. The pattern watched over her from the face of every leaf and every tiny flower of furze. I feel confident that the next time I'm faced with yet another inane repetition of "women were oppressed so we can't write their stories," I won't need to painstakingly educate anyone about the realities of medieval life with recourse to books and articles.