I am currently reading The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent. It is very good but it is also hard to read about so much intolerance and visciousness.

Lyn, What do you think of Honolulu? I read his book Moloka'i and really enjoyed that and I have been thinking of reading this new one.

Donna, I read Moloka'i when it first came out and really liked it. So far, I am really enjoying Honolulu also. I have been fascinated by the history of Hawai'i ever since I read the book by James Michner when I was in High School.

I also just finished The Heretic's Daughter about 3 weeks ago. I thought it was a good read, and like you, the intolerance and viciousness made quite an impression on me.

Here are two small teasers from my novel Silent Coup. Hope someone on the list has read or will read it. Would love some feed-back. www.joanfrancis.net
Bennett's story 1932
Bennett ordered a second beer to go with his sandwich. He was sure that a German spy had just handed off some secret information that he or one of his confederates had obtained in America. The adult within Bennett tried to caution against the soaring adrenaline rush he was feeling, but the kid in him, the pirate of his youth, was thrilled that a whole new adventure was starting. He would find out who he could give this information to.
He finished his sandwich, drained the last of his beer, and smiled as he leaned back in his chair. He was to have a legal job that paid well, new places to see, new people to meet, and in Germany he anticipated a wonderful new freedom. His mood soared on optimism, adventure, adrenaline, and a very good bock beer. He was sure that Germany in 1932 was going to be a wonderful place to live.
Diana's story: currnt year--Bennett's Legacy
“Otto Brehm—Attorney at Law” was written in fading gold letters on the second-story window. At least the office was real. The car Brehm had promised would pick me up at the airport had never materialized and my repeated calls to him went unanswered. After an hour I had given up and hired a cab. Was Brehm even here? Why would he send me a first class plane ticket from California to North Carolina and not bother to be in when I arrived.
I had been summoned because I was an heir of my great-uncle Bennett. Why, I couldn’t imagine. I had only met the man twice when I was a child. He had lived rather like a hermit on a five-acre farm somewhere near the Smoky Mountains. No one ever mentioned why, at least not to me. I had heard that Bennett and his father, Zeb made some money with Prohibition moonshine and that Bennett had a pension from some firm he had worked for, but he had been retired since the mid 1960s. Born in 1911 and retired for decades, there probably wasn’t enough left in the estate to justify the cost of my plane fare.

I'm currently reading When Christ and His Saints Slept and Blood Eagle.

I just finished Courts of Love and loved it.

Caroll Erickson Mary Queen of Scotts though I'm only on paragraph 1 page 1, lol. Haven't had alot of time to read with us all having the flu.

Nona - I was looking at that one at Borders the other day. It looks good. Let me know what you think.

Susan C - I really want to read When Christ and His Saints slept, actually that whole series.

Lyn wrote: "Nona - I was looking at that one at Borders the other day. It looks good. Let me know what you think.

Susan C - I really want to read When Christ and His Saints slept, actually that whole series. "

I'll be sure to keep you updated on my thoughts, I just finished Courts of Love by Plaidy and loved it.

Nona wrote: "Caroll Erickson Mary Queen of Scotts though I'm only on paragraph 1 page 1, lol. Haven't had alot of time to read with us all having the flu."

Nona, let's see how far you get. Bad, unbelievably bad.

Misfit wrote: "Nona wrote: "Caroll Erickson Mary Queen of Scotts though I'm only on paragraph 1 page 1, lol. Haven't had alot of time to read with us all having the flu."

Nona, let's see how far you get. Bad, ..."

Oh, say it isn't so - it's on my shelf also!

Only if you want to read the most ridiculous piece of made up nonsense you've ever come across. I assume we're talking about her new one that she labels "historical entertainment" and not an older bio of hers.

Oh thank goodness, I'm referring to the nonfiction!

ugh, misfit we have to get together and discuss these titles before I go to the library, we have a very small library and I get excited that they actually have the title only to find out their crappy and end up hating myself for wasting my time.

it is her historical entertainment, I'm now on page 31.....however I tend to like them just for the laughs and giggles.

Nona wrote: "ugh, misfit we have to get together and discuss these titles before I go to the library, we have a very small library and I get excited that they actually have the title only to find out their crap..."

Nona, don't ya just love Bothwell's nickname for her? Orange Blossom? It just gets more bizarre, wait until the plots with the pope.

I'm tempted to give you the link to my library's catalog just to make you jealous but I'll be nice :p

Susan C wrote: "Oh thank goodness, I'm referring to the nonfiction!"

Now I think of it did she write a NF on Mary Q of S or is it the Bloody Mary book??

thats absolutely mean....but I have to remember I am in poe-dunkville Oklahoma. See why I 90% by books rather then try to find at the library.

I also have her non fiction MQofS, haven't read it yet but it is here somewhere.

OK, I'll be nice. Must remember to thank Mr. Gates and his Microsoft millions. I'm pretty sure they help alot with library funding :)

Wish I'd been smart and started using the library a long time ago. Doesn't even matter which branch in the county has the book - it comes to where I ask it to come. No charge.

I'm going to get back into Wolf Hall this weekend, and I'm also working on Mary's Luke's novel on Katherine Parr The Ivy Crown. She had a whole other life way before she married Henry.

Wolf Hall I've heard alot about that one lately is it good? I tend to agree with you on most books so le me know.

Misfit wrote: "I'm going to get back into Wolf Hall this weekend..."

How is Wolf Hall?
Should I believe the hype?

Barbarossa wrote: "Misfit wrote: "I'm going to get back into Wolf Hall this weekend..."

How is Wolf Hall?
Should I believe the hype?"

Nona wrote: "Wolf Hall I've heard alot about that one lately is it good? I tend to agree with you on most books so le me know."

I've stalled at page 150 and gone on to read something else. It's in the present tense and very distracting. It sure is *literary* though.

Tanzanite just finished it, I'm waiting to see her review.