What Fiction Are You Reading? - Everything Else

[Portia, Novice Mod]

What are you reading in fiction?

[Portia, Novice Mod]

I am finishing the historical novel The Summer Before the War. This book is written by the author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.

We visited Rye in the Spring of 1996 and just loved the place. The novel begins in the Summer of 1914. I have gotten to Autumn, when young men have begun dying and the families grieving.

[Dawn]

I've got a number of them gong right now. (life isn't complete without at least 2 books active at the same time)
William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope--some humorous illustrations (Jabba in partial Elizabethan garb!) and a couple nice shots taken at some of the changes Lucas has made
Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy
Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the Daily Planet's Ace Reporter
Shadow Scale

[Jane]

Killing Pythagoras - murder mystery set in 510 BC, where an Egyptian and the philosopher/mathematician's daughter team up to investigate.

[Silvia]

Jane wrote: "Killing Pythagoras - murder mystery set in 510 BC, where an Egyptian and the philosopher/mathematician's daughter team up to investigate."

Sounds great!

[Portia, Novice Mod]

Jame, you come up with the best recommendations! I never cease to be amazed at how/where you find these books!

[Joy]

AGENT OF VEGA, sci fi novellas by James A. Schmitz. I used to love his Telzey Amberdon books when I was young, and I rather think this is slanted younger (published 1960).

Also I just finished listening to Dorothy Sayers's THE NINE TAILORS, a wonderful Golden Age mystery. I'm wearing out the tapes and can't find it on CD.

[Portia, Novice Mod]

I love The Nine Tailors! I read a copy that I found among my MIL's books.

Le's all try to remember to post book links so everyone can see what book we are talking about ok?

Agent of Vega

[Joy]

Testing setting up a link to a book I reread today: http://www.amazon.com/Nest-Wicket-Meg...

[Silvia]

I've just bought this one.
Mayhem
I'll start reading it as soon as I've finished Anne Neville's biography.

[Jane]

Right now I'm reading Foreign Bodies: A Marcus Corvinus Mystery Set in Ancient Rome: this is the latest one out.
Also I'm reading an unusual one that has slipped under the radar somehow: The Fox / M.N.J. Butler : about a Spartan writing his memoirs for Philip II of Macedon [giving the Spartan viewpoint] of history at that time--end of war between Athens and Sparta up through Sparta's decline at hands of Thebes [5-4th century BC]. Of course it's through the lens of the man's life.

[Portia, Novice Mod]

Jane, have you read the Lindsay Davis Marcus Didius Falco mysteries? I read a number of them and then just burned out. I've heard series burn out happens more often than I'd thought.

[Portia, Novice Mod]

Silvia wrote: "I've just bought this one.
Mayhem
I'll start reading it as soon as I've finished Anne Neville's biography."

Silvia, which biography of Anne Neville are you reading? I'm sure we'd all appreciate your posting it through "add book/author".

[Silvia]

Portia wrote: "Silvia wrote: "I've just bought this one.
Mayhem
I'll start reading it as soon as I've finished Anne Neville's biography."

Silvia, which biography of Anne Neville are you reading?..."

Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III

[Silvia]

I must say I haven't learnt anything that I didn't already know - except lots of details about Anne and Isabel's inheritance. Anyway, I enjoyed it. And I appreciate the truthfulness of the author - no assumptions, just the few basic facts that it is possible to infer from the few documents we know about.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Portia wrote: "Jane, have you read the Lindsay Davis Marcus Didius Falco mysteries? I read a number of them and then just burned out. I've heard series burn out happens more often than I'd thought."

My mother loves these. I really like the first one (The Silver Pigs) a lot, and have read the first three or four sequels, I think. I guess you could say I burnt out on it, though.

[Portia, Novice Mod]

I wish I could remember which group had the "burn out on series discussion. I felt better after I'd read that other people can get tired of a series, not just me.

[Jane]

Portia wrote: "Jane, have you read the Lindsay Davis Marcus Didius Falco mysteries? I read a number of them and then just burned out. I've heard series burn out happens more often than I'd thought."

Same thing happened to me with Falco after, say, Book 7.

[Jane]

Interesting treatment of Odysseus told by himself at tail-end of Trojan War: How he conceives of the Horse, how it's built, and....

Dragonflies

[Portia, Novice Mod]

I put it on my list. I love Odysseus, even tho" I know he'd cheat on me. *sigh*

[Jane]

The Confessions of X
Fictional memoirs of Augustine's [unnamed] concubine. Then he has a religious awakening and posterity has named him St. Augustine. Beautifully written but sad in places.

[Donna]

I just finished Linda Proud's A Tabernacle for the Sun about Renaissance Florence. It was wonderful; I'm waiting for the other two books in the series to come in the mail.

Also, just started Flight of Dreams, a novel about the Hindenburg that has gotten some good reviews.

[Joy]

I'm up to the last of the My Friends series. The last three books are so tightly knit together that I usually reread them one after the other: MY FRIEND SASHIE, MY FRIENDS THE MISSES KINDNESS, and MY FRIENDS GEORGE AND TOM. They are about a widow returning to Scotland where she was born and adapting to her new life as an author. Deeply human and lovable.