Finished LE MORTE DARTHUR

I suspect some of those who have been following me on Goodreads and Facebook may have thought I'd never finish this.  I broke it into three sections and read each like a book, leaving it for two cycles of piles on my "to read" shelf (maybe a little less than a year between each section.)

OK.  It was dry.  There was no character development.  It read like a history textbook.  But I had wanted to read something as close to the origin of the story as I could get.  There are texts closer, much closer.  But I can't (or don't want to) read Old English and certainly not Old French, so this was it.  I did read a lot of stories I had not heard before as well as how Arthur, Mordred, Guenevere, and Lancelot died...which I had not really gotten before.  I will now proceed to read The Once and Future King (which the book I just finished says was the epitaph on his tombstone) to see how it compares.  But not immediately.



I have now started Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter.  He is definitely addressing Christian Values, but in a more rational way than we usually hear them addressed politically today.  Usually someone picks and chooses sentences from the Bible to beat us into hating whole groups of people with.  To prove to us that some human beings (belonging to different groups from that of the person doing the preaching) should not have human rights.

But, who was our most Christian president?  Really?  Who, of our presidents, most exemplifies (then and now) the values of Love and Charity that we grew up with?  If I am going to read a book, written by a politician about values, this is the author I will go with!   And he is refreshing!  A person who truly loves and respects people--all people.  In this day and age!