Between the Covers. Resurrected Post.

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Between the Covers. Resurrected Post.

February 12, 2017Between the Covers

��What are you reading, Ken?�� I assume you are asking for purposes of today��s post.

I��m glad you asked. As usual, I have several books going at any one time. This week I finished ��The Hunted�� by Elmore Leonard. Typically outstanding work. It is also an example of how cell phones have changed everything. The same story could not be written as a contemporary piece. Still, excellent 70��s-vintage Leonard.

I also finished ��The Dark Defiles,�� the third of Richard K. Morgan��s ��A Land Fit for Heroes�� grimdark fantasy trilogy. I don��t want to say too much about it here. I��ll note that Morgan is a gifted stylist. The man can write. I��ll also note that I called it pretty close as to the fate of one major character, but I don��t want to explain my reasoning here. Suffice it to say that is one check mark in the negative column. At the same time, Morgan kept me guessing throughout and I do appreciate that, whatever else I might think about the story. So, due praise for originality.

I��m about three-quarters of the way through a re-read of the complete Sherlock Holmes stories. It��s been decades since the first read through, though of course I��ve read through an individual story here or there across the years. But in the main, I��ve managed to forget the stories well enough that I��m almost experiencing them for the first time, able to puzzle out the mysteries or be surprised. Good fun, though often more grim and sobering than I��d remembered.

I��m working my way gradually through a history of the Thirty Years War as well as a history of the early campaigns of the Hundred Years War.

I started ��Under the Volcano.�� So far so good. It takes a few pages to adapt to the pacing of early Twentieth Century literature after extensive immersion in more recent genre fiction. But as I tend to read rather widely �� and, in fact tend to read more older fiction than new �� the style doesn��t present any problem. I��m already intrigued. The far south of Mexico during the early years of World War II isn��t familiar ground for me. All the early references to the Emperor Maximillian��s legacy are hitting the target as it was only a few years ago I read a history of Max and his ill-fated wife.

And I��ve picked up the sequel to Tim Willock��s ��The Religion.�� I��ll see how bloody is the follow up to Matthias Tannhauser��s involvement in the Siege of Malta. This one is called ��The Twelve Children of Paris�� and is set during the Saint Bartholomew��s Day Massacre. Just getting into it, so I��ve yet to form an opinion. Loved ��The Religion�� so my hopes are high.

I��ve got three more lined up. But other books might bump those from the queue, so I��ll withhold titles.

Now, I��ve got time for some more reading before the HA wakes from her nap.

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