The Lost Book of the Grail
by Charlie Lovett
No gratuitous sex!
No gratuitous violence!
Oh my!
A fun and addictive tale carried along through diverse components: books vs digital documents, libraries, Arthurian legend, Holy Grail, British history, hidden codes , religious rites and daily practices, with quirky characters, friendship and simple romance. All that bundled into one little book which my father would have delighted, as did I. The narrative bounces back-and-forth through the middle ages establishing the providence of relics; and an unlikely pairing of a very prototypical British professor and lover of antiquity and his digitally skilled brash American female counterpart in search of answers to their grail quest.
Arthur forever comfortable in a library is dismayed by his students disaffection of tangible books.
"Students didn't even read books anymore, thought Arthur. They dispensed with design and layout and cover art and illustrations and reduced reading to nothing but a stream of text in whatever font and size they chose. Reading without books, thought Arthur, was like playing cricket without dressing in white. It could be done, but why?"
Unexpectedly, the book also weaves in and out of perspectives of belief and what it means to believe.
"The gifts of God are rarely what we expected"
(Its really not the type of book where I'm looking for great quotes and I don't want to bother with the typing up of long quotes that illustrate my point - trust me.)
My favorite review of the book came from kirkus reviews:
"A solidly built, innocently bookish diversion with a distinct Masterpiece Theater flavor"
No gratuitous sex!
No gratuitous violence!
Oh my!
A fun and addictive tale carried along through diverse components: books vs digital documents, libraries, Arthurian legend, Holy Grail, British history, hidden codes , religious rites and daily practices, with quirky characters, friendship and simple romance. All that bundled into one little book which my father would have delighted, as did I. The narrative bounces back-and-forth through the middle ages establishing the providence of relics; and an unlikely pairing of a very prototypical British professor and lover of antiquity and his digitally skilled brash American female counterpart in search of answers to their grail quest.
Arthur forever comfortable in a library is dismayed by his students disaffection of tangible books.
"Students didn't even read books anymore, thought Arthur. They dispensed with design and layout and cover art and illustrations and reduced reading to nothing but a stream of text in whatever font and size they chose. Reading without books, thought Arthur, was like playing cricket without dressing in white. It could be done, but why?"
Unexpectedly, the book also weaves in and out of perspectives of belief and what it means to believe.
"The gifts of God are rarely what we expected"
(Its really not the type of book where I'm looking for great quotes and I don't want to bother with the typing up of long quotes that illustrate my point - trust me.)
My favorite review of the book came from kirkus reviews:
"A solidly built, innocently bookish diversion with a distinct Masterpiece Theater flavor"
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