tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303338240948428759.post869511870090558075..comments2024-03-24T18:32:45.563-04:00Comments on Black and White: Heroic HeroesAnne E.G. Nydamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02406524149458743460noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303338240948428759.post-72828598986185389832010-12-22T10:26:16.658-05:002010-12-22T10:26:16.658-05:00Yes! Let’s hear it for heroic heroes! Now I prefer...Yes! Let’s hear it for heroic heroes! Now I prefer quiet faithful guys like Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow, wry funny tales like Philip Gulley’s Harmony series, or complicated real people as in Deborah Cadbury’s Chocolate Wars. As a teenager I preferred swashbuckling historical novels to fantasy (after all I did grow up to be an historian). But the genre of fantasy hadn’t caught on and proliferated fifty years ago as it has now. The five books in the Otherworld series had not yet been written. I am quite taken with them and their heroine Svarnil who has integrity as well as intelligence, a quick wit, and physical endurance. In fact, any hero of mine has to have integrity. Of course it will be tested, and mistakes will be made. But they will be seen as mistakes, and the hero will learn from them.Paxnoreply@blogger.com