Sunday, we took a family outing to the library book sale and I bought four boxes of books for a whole dollar!  I picked out this book to start reading called The Merlin at St. Gillies Well.  I confess I only picked it up because it had the word Merlin in the title cause I am a sucker for any twist in the Arthurian legends.  I had never heard of the author, so I was hoping to find someone new to read.

Anyhow, I started the book and really like it.  It's not about Merlin and Arthur at all, but about the time of Joan of Arc and is part one of a trilogy about her life and times.  The author is well versed in druidic lore (as far as I can tell) and probably a pagan.  She presents the people influencing Joan as pagans, practioners of the old ways and Joan as the sacrifice for the land.  I have to admit, this is something I never thought of.  Because I always heard of her as St. Jeanne d'Arc......I assumed she was a Christian martyr and didn't bother to learn much about her at all.  Anyhow, now I have to check at the library and see if they have the other two books in the trilogy.  I am hooked.