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[Jill H.]

Too true!!!

[Morgiana]

Found this book in the library:

by Chaim Herzog

hope I can start it soon...

[Bryan]

Nice, thanks Morgiana.

[Alessandra]

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

(Not sure if I got the citation form right)

[Bea]

I'm juggling a number of books. I just started listening to Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, "Wives and Daughters", as narrated by Prunella Scales. Scales is a wonderful reader (you may remember her from the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers) and I'm enjoying the book greatly. It's one of those I think I will gulp down in a hurry.

by Elizabeth Gaskell

[Bryan]

Alessandra wrote: "(Not sure if I got the citation form right)"

Very close, great effort. Just take out the title link if you have a bookcover:

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Great book, by the way.

[Alessandra]

Fixed it.

Yes, it's pretty compelling reading. I like how she started right in, providing backstory as necessary. I've just gotten to Pearl Harbor.

This is almost the time covered by
by Alistair Cooke
which I read recently. It will be interesting to triangulate the viewpoints.

[Morgiana]

Bryan wrote: "Nice, thanks Morgiana."
You're welcome;)

[Dennis]

I am currently reading Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder. I could not see an area of discussion this would fit in to however. It is kind of a broad area, stretching from Stalin and the Soviet Union in the 1930s to the siege of Leningrad in WW2. The over riding theme of all this is how Stalin treated his people, an area that I now think has gotten far too little coverage. The interest started with The Forsaken by Tim Tzouladis, then The Retreat by Michael Jones and now Bloodlands. After this will be Leningrad by Anna Reid. Usually I enjoy mainly US History...but this subject has me fascinated.

[Bryan]

Thanks Dennis. Close on the citation. Every citation needs an author link. If there is a author photo, include that too:

Tim Tzouliadis

Michael Jones

Timothy Snyder

Anna Reid

['Aussie Rick']

Some good books there Dennis! I've just started reading; "Eight Lives Down" by Chris Hunter.


by Chris Hunter

[Dennis]

Thank you Bryan. I will remember that next time.

[zed]

Beneath Hill 60

I am half way through this easy to read book. The book quintessentially follows Oliver Woodward an Australian miner who had an impact on WW1 tunnelling operations though various other interesting individuals appear in the narrative with John Griffith , whom I had never heard of before making a brief appearance. After reading his wiki I would imagine a boys own adventure movie would not be out of the question on this larger than life character. For those that enjoy an easier read after the longer historical research, such as myself, books like this make very nice reading.

[Bea]

4ZZZ wrote: "Beneath Hill 60

I am half way through this easy to read book. The book quintessentially follows Oliver Woodward an Australian miner who had an impac..."

Hello 4ZZZ, thanks for the recommendation. You are new here, so here is a refresher on how we cite books and link to other websites.

The book you recommended should be cited with its cover, the author's photo (if available) and the author's link. This is easy to do by clicking on the add book/author link at the top right of the the comment box.

by Will Davies(no photo)

To link to other websites, simply copy the url from your browser window and paste it after the body of your text. We like to see where a link will take us.

Wikipedia article on Oliver Woodward: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_W...

Wikipedia article on John Griffiths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John...

[Alisa]

Thanks Bea. 4ZZZ good attempt with the citations and Bea was kind enough to help you out. If you need a hand let us know. It's easy once you get it down.

[Jill H.]

I just started the book cited below and it has grabbed me from the first page. Through the diaries of shopkeepers, socialites, bishops and volunteers fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and the memoirs of the unemployed, housewives and hostesses, as well as contemporary accounts of politicians, journalists and poets, it paints a picture of Britain at a turning point in history. Thanks to Geevee, one of my History Book Club friends for recommending it. It is exceptional.

The Last Dance 1936, the Year Our Lives Changed(no book cover) by Denys Blakeway

[Alisa]

Jill, I am about to do the same thing - reading a book I first learned about from another club member. This one has been on my to-read list for awhile and I know it has been, and continues to be, very popular. Looking forward to reading it nonetheless and starting tonight!
by Laura Hillenbrand

[Dennis]

Alisa, good choice. The book is amazing. You will swear it has to be fiction.

[Alisa]

Thanks Dennis, I am looking forward to it.

[Jill H.]

My TBR list has grown by leaps and bounds through the great recommendations here........and I have yet to be disappointed with any of the books.

['Aussie Rick']

I've just picked up and have started reading this new book; "Glock".


by Paul M. Barrett

[Bea]

I am just about halfway through "Stiff". Sometimes I wonder about myself. This book, containing much very interesting material on the fate of cadavers donated to science, has had me laughing so hard I thought I might choke! The Chapter on the Shroud of Turin experiments has been the corker so far.

I am going to have to check out this author's other books.

by Mary Roach

[Jill H.]

Bea........I saw that book in a book club circular and thought....Yikes, not for me..... but now that I learn that it is funny instead of morbid in the extreme, I might have to reconsider. Don't laugh until you choke or you might be in the next edition of it!!!!

[Bea]

It is both funny and morbid in the extreme. But I say go for it.

Warning: This book also includes descriptions of experiments on living animals. I found those parts more disturbing than the uses of human cadavers.

[Jill H.]

That just took me off the reading list. I can't bear anything about the mistreatment of or experimentation on animals. Thanks for telling me since it would have upset me to no end.

[Bryan]

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "I've just picked up and have started reading this new book; "Glock".


by Paul M. Barrett"

The Wall Street Journal gave this a good review; let us know how it goes, I think I will add it to my TBR pile.

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Bryan, its been quite good so far, not only covering the Glock but also gun culture in America which is interesting to read for a non American.

[Bea]

I am just a few chapters into "The Song of the Dodo" and loving it. The subject is island biogeography as it relates to evolution and extinction. It sounds very dry but is anything but. The writing is lively and it is kind of a blend of history and biography (mostly about Darwin and Wallace so far) and modern thinking on island biogeography, with a bit of a travelogue thrown in. I even laughed out loud once (at some clueless Victorian who concluded that the Chinese were not an advanced civilization because they could not pronounce the letter "r".)

by David Quammen

[Whitney]

Hey all I just finished a fictional novel about the war of the roses queen Elizabeth wydvile/ gray/rivers/Lancastrian/Plantagenet uuugh they have to many names in middle aged England . Anywho the book was By Philippa Gregory . I'm reading a few more right ow but I'm typing on an iPad and getting really tired I don't think I'd like to locate all the pics and links right now.

[Bryan]

Thanks Chakara, we appreciate what you can do on your ipad.

[Whitney]

Bryan wrote: "Thanks Chakara, we appreciate what you can do on your ipad."

Lol thanks Bryan it's not very much I can do right now. I'm thinking there must be an easier way to use this thing and I'm just taking the difficult route.

[Karen]

Chakara, I recently read 'The Red Queen' Margaret Beaumonts story by Philippa Gregory would be good to read the Yorkist side in 'The White Queen'

by Philippa Gregory

by Philippa Gregory

[Karen]

I have just finished reading 'Outer Dark' by Cormac Mccarthy as always great writing by this author however I found this book relentlessly dark and the ending quite horrific. This is one of McCarthys earlier books but definitely some themes shared with one of his later works 'The Road'

by Cormac McCarthy

by Cormac McCarthy

[Whitney]

Karen wrote: "Chakara, I recently read 'The Red Queen' Margaret Beaumonts story by Philippa Gregory would be good to read the Yorkist side in 'The White Queen'

by [authorimag..."

Oh yes I'm listening to it in my car so far I'm not understanding why people hate her character she is just sad to me and I hate her mother in the book.

[Karen]

Oh yes her mother is very manipulating. Guess the fate of young heiresses then was to be used by their parents as porns to increase their own power or influence.

Margaret grows into a very determined woman herself but on the whole I felt I admired her determination and grit. A very intelligent woman

[Patricrk]

Historical Novel set in England and Spain during the 1810 to 1815. Well written.

by Stella Tillyard

[Jill H.]

Currently reading the biography of the torch singer and Broadway baby of the 1920s, Libby Holman. She was married to the heir of the Reynold tobacco fortune who died of a self-inflicted gun shot.....or did he? This is a fascinating book about a woman who was a star in her time and is practically forgotten today.

by Jon Bradshaw

[Alisa]

Oh man, my to-read list just grew - again! I get sucked in by what everyone is reading. Good stuff!

['Aussie Rick']

I've just started reading this recent book covering the Commonwealth 27th Brigade (27th Infantry Brigade – 1st Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 1st Middlesex and 3rd Royal Australian Regiment) during the Korean War:

by Andrew Salmon

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Good for you; I hope you enjoy it.

[[deleted user]]

I'm reading by Sandra Hempel and so far I've been really impressed with the style and tone. It makes the potentially dry topic really engaging.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Peregrine,

The History Book Club has rules and guidelines. Please consult them for our rules regarding citations. You have the book cover added properly but we also add the author's photo and link. In the case of the book you added, there is no author's photo.

by Sandra Hempel (no author's photo)

If you edit your post, then I will delete this reminder. Thanks.

['Aussie Rick']

I've just started reading; "Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe" by Jonathan W. Jordan.

by Jonathan W. Jordan

[Nicole]

I've just started reading Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden

by Mark Bowden

[Jill H.]

I learned of this book through a recommendation from another member. I had to look for a while to find it but it is well worth the effort. It tells the true story of a serial killer in Occupied Paris in 1943.....a man whose victim list could be as high as 100 although during that turbulent time when people disappeared on a regular basis, it is hard to verify. Nevertheless, his victim list is enormous.....a fascinating and chilling tale that is recommended.

by David King

[Alisa]

Just finished
by Laura Hillenbrand
I know several other HBC members have it on their to-read list, and others have already read it. Wow.

Deciding on what is next is a hard choice, so going with something completely different. Selected this:
by John Berendt

[Sigrun]

Pictures by Jill are shown below Message 1459. Thanks, Jill for your help.

A lot of my reading recently has involved Rosemary Sutcliff's books. This year is the 20th anniversary of her death. The book I'm reading right now is SWORD SONG (1997). It was discovered after her passing in 1992 among her papers. It's from the library and surprisingly clean considering the state of all her other books I get from there.

Like most of her books it's a historical novel, set mostly in Ireland around the 9th/10th C. Bjarni is a young Viking swordsman, living in Scotland who hires out on merchant ships with his dog. Of course, there are adventures to be overcome. We'll see how things progress.

I read DEATH IN THE CITY OF LIGHTS a few months ago, mainly because my mother was in Paris during a part of that time. Obviously she didn't meet up with the killer. Anyway, she didn't fit his requirements. But it was very interesting to have a look at what Paris was like during the war. And this killer... I'm glad he's no longer among the living. I didn't hear about this guy while I was living in the Paris are for almost a year in the 1960s.

UNBROKEN is also on my list.

I'm sorry that I don't know how to put in the pictures. Just now I can't even get any because I have to get a new scanner. I didn't know that we're supposed to provide them. It's something I still need to learn. Once I do, I'll take care of it. I'm assuming that the edit will always be available to me.

Thanks, Jill, for pointing out where the information for adding author and cover photos can be found. I'm a little too rattled to do this myself just now (I always have a lot of pain in my hands), but I'll give it a shot for my next entry.

[Dennis]

I got side tracked from History. I want to see the movie but thought I should read the book first. It is really good.

Suzanne Collins

[Jill H.]

Sigrun:
Please go to the Mechanics of the Board address below to see the instruction for adding book covers and author information. It is a pretty simple process which utilizes the "add book/author" link at the top of the comment box.

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...


The book you mentioned should look like this:

by Rosemary Sutcliff

by David King(no photo available)

by Laura Hillenbrand

[Patricrk]

by Sylvia Nasar (no photo) These are short biographical sketches of the economists who developed the theories that try to explain what happens economically and why. Light on the theories and no math and heavier on the people. Decent read if you are interested.