What are you reading now!

[Renee]

*whispers* "It's a really good ending."

[Giki]

still half way through wolf hall and tgok, randomly decided to read Grace Burrow's 'the duke's disaster', It is a frothy regency romance so quite different to the other two, but I have a soft spot for this type of book, even if they are instantly forgotten. A kind of booky comfort blanket. You know what you are getting, it is all good, not very clean, fun.

[Terry ~ Huntress of Erudition]

Alex Farrand wrote: "I am almost done with Cloud Atlas! Whoopie! Soon I can really focus on Game of Kings."

Cloud Atlas was great - so was the movie.
I couldn't get those poor serving girl clones out of my head for a while.

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Terry ~ Huntress of Erudition wrote: "Alex Farrand wrote: "I am almost done with Cloud Atlas! Whoopie! Soon I can really focus on Game of Kings."

Cloud Atlas was great - so was the movie.
I couldn't get those poor serving girl clones ..."

They were crazy. Especially, when she found out the truth!

[SamuraiKitty]

Hello Everyone!
So I have to encourage/urge you all the read Guy Gavriel Kay's, "The Lion's of Al-Rassan". I just finished the book, and it was so special, and amazing, and good. I love Dunnett because of her ability to tell a story with characters, and stories that leap off the pages of her novels. (She is my favorite author - of all time) This book was like that for me. It's "fantasy" (which is not my usual genre), but it's actually historical/yet current history too. Just an amazing story!!!!!!

[Beth]

Kay worked for Dunnett at one time and is a big fan. You can definitely see her influence in his first fantasy novels, the four "Fionavar Tapestry" books. But his later alternate history novels are much less fantastic, so if you don't care for fantasy, stick with them.

[Giki]

SamuraiKitty wrote: "Hello Everyone!
So I have to encourage/urge you all the read Guy Gavriel Kay's, "The Lion's of Al-Rassan". I just finished the book, and it was so special, and amazing, and good. I love Dunnett bec..."
That sounds really interesting, I always think I don't like fantasy until I read one and love it and end up obsessively chasing down every last book the author wrote. I shall put it on my list. The DD connection is interesting too, I think she has influenced quite a few authors.

[SamuraiKitty]

Hi Giki and Beth -
I didn't realize that Kay had worked for Dunnett, so Beth thanks for that info. I had read somewhere that he was influenced by Dunnett and named her as one of his top favorite author's (of course!!!!!) Which was why I decided to read a few of his books. I read "The Summer Tree" (which was good) and have been waiting for the next in the series to arrive in the mail, which was why I started reading "The Lions of Al-Rassan". and I just fell in love with the story, and the characters. I'm really glad to hear that you are thinking of reading it Giki! And for myself, it read more like a historical novel than any fantasy novel I've ever read: probably another reason I enjoyed it so much.

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I started reading the Count of Monte Cristo. It is very good, so far.

[SamuraiKitty]

Hi Alex -
Keep with the updates please for "The Count"! That's on my "to read" pile and I'd really like to get your assessment of it.
Thanks!!!!!
Kitty

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SamuraiKitty wrote: "Hi Alex -
Keep with the updates please for "The Count"! That's on my "to read" pile and I'd really like to get your assessment of it.
Thanks!!!!!
Kitty"

No problem. :D

[Giki]

I am soooo close to the end of wolf hall i can almost smell the fresh air!, I have enjoyed it , really, it is interesting, I just found it so difficult to keep focused and it is the sort of book that is your attention wavers for a second then you have no idea what is going on.
To celebrate I have started 'The end of the world Running Club' by Adrian j walker which I got from the library, just a few pages so far, it seems interesting. I also borrowed 'The Winter Isles' by Antonia Senior - another scottish historical, it gets good reviews. I have been very well behaved and not even peeked at it yet.

[Sarah]

I am reading "A Man Called Ove" for my book club. I'm not fond of it - it's in present tense, which I hate (I couldn't read more than a chapter of Wolf Hall because of that), and Ove reminds me of that grumpy old man in "Up" only without his redeeming qualities, at least so far.
I am also reading "With Malice Toward Some" by Margaret Halsey, which was published in 1938. This was recommended by a Dunnett reader. It's written as a diary about an American couple who travel to England in the late 30s because the husband has an exchange professorship at a college in Exeter, and it is laugh-out-loud funny, and makes me realize that not much has really changed in the intervening 75 years (although the food is better now). Her descriptions of Stratford were eerily reminiscent of my experience of Stratford in 1977.

[Giki]

I have just finished reading 'the winter isles' by Antonia Senior, it is about a 12th century warrior in the west of Scotland, I loved it, lots of good historical detail and windswept beaches. I have requested 'The Sunne in Splendor' ( English historical about Richard III) from my local library after it was recommended by samuraikitty. According to the library website, it is currently intransit, somewhere on the storm tossed sea between here and the isle of Arran, which fits in quite well with my previous book.

[SamuraiKitty]

Hi Giki -
I'm going to have to look for "The Winter Isles". It sounds interesting, and I love that time period, though I haven't read much about Scotland during that time.

[Giki]

SamuraiKitty wrote: "Hi Giki -
I'm going to have to look for "The Winter Isles". It sounds interesting, and I love that time period, though I haven't read much about Scotland during that time."
It is worth reading, quite a different world from the LC though but it is a great story.

[Not_Your_Typical_Lannister (Leslie)]

I just started The Handmaid's Tale
As part of a buddy read. The timing worked out well because the tv series on Bravo starts tonight. I will be watching afterwards if I like the book.