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I started re-reading Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael books and re-watching the BBC series starring Derek Jacobi. So far I have only finish the first one, “Morbid Taste for Bones.”

The episode (no surprise) was a highly condensed version of the book. For the sake of clarity, the whole series reduced the amount of characters from the books. For instance, instead of a series of incompetent to fairly competent assistants in the books, in the series Cadfael only has Brother Oswin (sp?) to deal with. To this end, there was no Brother John who runs off with a Welsh girl, and no sub-prior either. This episode was not the first to air and therefore, Abbot Radulfus is already there. Cadfael gets more to do in this show than he did in the book. He examines the dead body and discovers the wounds, not the daughter. And the daughter is not used to fool Brother Columbanus in the chapel either. Cadfael does that all by himself with the daughter only serving as witness.

Besides the condensation, the shows give a good sense of the books and was an enjoyable series all together.


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www.netflix.com provides me with all the DVD’s I can handle.
As for books, my thanks go out to www.amazon.com, Borders (a chai latte, please!) and all the used book sales I can get to.
For anything I can’t find in any of these places, I go to my local library. (Interlibrary Loans are SHINY!)

LIBRARIANS: the GPS locators in a wilderness of information.