What Are You Reading and Why? July 2013

[Anna]

Just finished and wrote review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I'm reading

[Janice, Moderator]

I started reading A Town Like Alice for my Around the World Challenge.

[Chrissie]

I finished 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion and highly recommend it to those of you who want to understand the road toward Irish Independence and enjoy historical fiction.
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
What I particularly liked were all the footnotes. You knew you were being given the real facts. You know exactly what is fiction and what isn't.

Now I have begun The Legacy Of Ladysmith: A Novel, another book of historical fiction. It is about an author hired by a Scottish family to write a biography about a deceased member of the family, and his role in the Siege of Ladysmith, i.e. part of the Second Boer War. What intrigues me is if what he writes is honest or glorifies the character. I mean, he is being paid to do it! And you know at the beginning the author has to kill someone. Who? Why?

[Dem]

Just finished May the Road Rise Up to Meet You This is my review.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/335284435

[Chrissie]

Finished When The Stars Fall To Earth
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

As a person of the world and of the 21st Century this is a must read.

From one genocide to another. Now I will start Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness. I have heard such great things about this author. I spoke with a woman in my French class who was a Tutsi. She was buried alive, buried under the dead, by the people in her village, her "friends". She sat there next to me and said not a word about these experiences, until finally she started telling me.

This is set in Burundi and Rwanda too.

[Lisa]

I finished reading The Bronze Horseman which was brilliant! My review is below:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I am now starting my 'M' read for the alphabet challenge which is
Mariana

[Almeta]

Finished Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong for my Q alphabet book.
Almeta's Review

Starting Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach for the R.

Daughter of Smoke & Bone for EU challenge

[Sarah]

Almeta wrote: "Finished Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong for my Q alphabet book.
Almeta's Review

Starting Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach for the R.

Daughter of Smoke & Bone for EU..."

Did you enjoy Daughter of Smoke and Bone Almeta?

[Sarah]

I've just started reading The Bat - I got it out of the library a few weeks back and have only just got around to starting it.

[Pragya]

Reading for a buddy read, for a group read and & for fun.

[Kat]

Lisa wrote: "I finished reading The Bronze Horseman which was brilliant! My review is below:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I am now starting my 'M' rea..."

I always want to hug people who read The Bronze Horseman - it's one of my faves :)

[Dem]

Just finished The Ocean at the End of the Lane This is my review. www.goodreads.com/review/show/678900151

[Cherie]

Kat wrote: I always want to hug people who read The Bronze Horseman - it's one of my faves :)
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Added to my list. How could I not add this based on that recommendation? (I had heard the title before, but not heard from anyone who had read it yet.)

[Lisa]

Kat wrote: "Lisa wrote: "I finished reading The Bronze Horseman which was brilliant! My review is below:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I am now starti..."

It is one of my faves too Kat! :) It blew me away! I can't wait to read the next book in the series.

Cherie, it is an amazing book! It is a long old read but worth it. I hope you enjoy it too when you come to read it :)

[Chrissie]

I have completed Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I picked up One Man's Initiation: 1917 free from Audible. It is about WW1, but very, very short.

The first is a biography, the latter historical fiction.

[Shannon]

Finished Cold Mountain and have started a YA book (because it is about as far from Cold Mountain as you can get and I needed a break). It's steampunk teen fiction so should fit the bill. A good summer read and quite engaging.

[Sharon75uk]

Lisa wrote: "I finished reading The Bronze Horseman which was brilliant! My review is below:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I am now starting my 'M' rea..."

I finished The Bronze Horseman a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it, have the second book here to start :)

[Lisa]

Sharon75uk wrote: "Lisa wrote: "I finished reading The Bronze Horseman which was brilliant! My review is below:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I am now starti..."

Yay! Another fan of 'The Bronze Horseman'! If you read the second book soon, I would be really interested to hear what you think of it :)

[Travis]

starting
Pacific Vortex! my first Cussler book

[Chrissie]

Finished One Man's Initiation: 1917
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
This was a freebie at Audible.

Moved on to A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan. I want to know more about the Kurds, and I want to test the author.

[Removed]

Just finished Noble Smith's novel Son's Of Zeus, and loved every page. Set in Greece it is historical fiction of the city of Plataea. Absolutely brilliant. Now onto The Champion by Glen Robinson which will be my last book for this month, and starting into August.

[Cherie]

I just finished The Name of the Rose .

My review. http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...