The Red Queen

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by Margaret Drabble | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0156032708 Global Overview for this book
Registered by gypsysmom of Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on 11/6/2015
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Journal Entry 1 by gypsysmom from Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on Friday, November 6, 2015
Better World Books had a sale in October and I couldn't resist the prices and no cost shipping for this book and 4 others.

Journal Entry 2 by gypsysmom at Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on Sunday, December 4, 2016
This book is on the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list. I try to knock 10 a year off the list but since I am never going to live long enough to read all the books (This is #244) I try to concentrate on ones I am pretty sure I will enjoy. I did enjoy this and I'm glad I read it.

The Red Queen of the title was never actually a queen. As a ten year old child she was married to the Crown Prince of Korea, Prince Sado. Sado went insane probably of paranoid schizophrenia. The marriage was consummated when the Prince and Princess turned 15 and they had children. The first died in infancy but the surviving son lived to become King. The royal family lived in a huge palace with hundreds of retainers and servants. The palace was a fertile ground for rumour and intrigue and Prince Sado's exploits, which included beheadings and beatings, were well known. It was obvious that Sado could never be allowed to take the throne. His father condemned him to death by placing him in a small rice chest. The Princess survived and made sure that her son would be accepted as the heir. She lived to a great age and wrote her memoirs which have survived to modern times. This book was sent to Dr. Barbara Halliwell by an anonymous source just before Babs (as she is called by friends) left for a conference in Korea. She read it on the flight to Seoul and was profoundly affected by the Princess's story. In the first part of the book the Princess's spirit indicates that she inhabited the Englishwoman's unconscious and directed her actions thereafter. Certainly Babs had some unusual experiences during her conference and continued to be interested in the story of the Princess upon her return to England. Would she had acted as she did in Seoul if she hadn't read the book? Hard to say but there does seem to be a hand of fate directing her.

I don't personally believe in spirits or at least not in the sense that they survive after death and have messages for the living. However, I have read some books that seem to speak to me and which I credit for having changed my life. Grass, Sky, Song by Trevor Herriot about the birds found on the prairies and the effects of grassland destruction on them made me conscious in a whole new way about bird life and the environment.

Journal Entry 3 by gypsysmom at Second Cup – Graham & Edmonton in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on Saturday, December 10, 2016

Released 7 yrs ago (12/8/2016 UTC) at Second Cup – Graham & Edmonton in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

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