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[Melanie]

I've just finished Promised Valley War, the sequel to Promised Valley Rebellion, by Ron Fritsch. It has won some awards, and deservedly so.

[Crystal]

I'll manage to finish the Ramses book, but I'll pass on the rest of the series.

[Bryn]

Melanie wrote: "I've just finished Promised Valley War, the sequel to Promised Valley Rebellion, by Ron Fritsch. It has won some awards, and deservedly so."

I've read those too. Liked them and wait for 3 and 4.

[Ron]

Thank you for the kind mentions, Melanie and Bryn.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Seems you are gaining some fans for your books, Ron. :-)

[Shannon]

A recovering alcoholic ex cop (who has the ghost of his father and ex wife visit him regularly) shows up in the third installment trying to shake off the murder rap by leaving his hometown and opening shop up near a mob boss (who may know how to get him out).

[Ben]

Terri wrote: "I am currently reading Shieldwall by Justin Hill. There are two different covers. The first cover is the latest one.


I'll be putting it on pause in a c..."

A great book, I thought! Did you enjoy it?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I haven't finished it yet, Ben. I had to pause it in order to start our June group reads.

I had some trouble with it, although I didn't get far in, because it seemed to have the ending at the start and sometimes when books do this it puts me off. Even in movies or tv series' I hate them giving you endings or story from further along and then going back to the start.

Once I finish the two A&M group reads I'll be back to it, to give it a fair shake.

[Tasha]

I am starting tonight.

[Ben]

@Terri: Fair enough! Love to know what you think when you do finish it.

[Dawn]

Tasha wrote: "I am starting tonight."

Sounds quite interesting Tasha.

[Anne]

I started (see below) Last night in bed, and read until my eyes were drooping at 2:30 AM. It is a mystery set in Nazi Germany in 1931 when Hitler is just coming into power. This is the first in a series, and I have a feeling I will be reading the rest too.
Recommended by readers on the Ancient and medieval History Group

[Judith]

I just finished reading Nancy Bilyeau's The Crown. It reads like a 16th century thriller but with great character development. One Dominican sister can sure get into a lot of trouble. Maybe a good description would be a page-turner with soul. My review.

[Simona]

Anne wrote: "I started (see below) Last night in bed, and read until my eyes were drooping at 2:30 AM. It is a mystery set in Nazi Germany in 1931 when Hitler is just coming into power. This is the first in a s..."

Set around the same period, Anne, I read

Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem that was quite good.

[Simona]

Judith wrote: "I just finished reading Nancy Bilyeau's The Crown. It reads like a 16th century thriller but with great character development. One Dominican sister can sure get into a lot of trouble. Maybe a good ..."

Thanks Judith. Your review "vaut le detour" by itself, as always, and the book is going directly in my TBR list.

[Anne]

Simona wrote: "Anne wrote: "I started (see below) Last night in bed, and read until my eyes were drooping at 2:30 AM. It is a mystery set in Nazi Germany in 1931 when Hitler is just coming into power. This is the..."

Thanks, Judith-they look good, added to my TBR

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Ben wrote: "@Terri: Fair enough! Love to know what you think when you do finish it."

I shall do, mate. :-)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I have started the other book in our group reads.
,
I have this cover edition.

[Tasha]

@Anne, sounds great! Added to my tbr.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I added that one the other day when Judith mentioned it. Sounds imteresting.

[Tasha]

Dawn wrote: "Tasha wrote: "I am starting tonight."

Sounds quite interesting Tasha."

I actually started this afternoon while my kids were playing at the playground with friends. I like it already so I'm hopeful it continues well. I just finished a 2 star read so I'm ready for better!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

2 star read? Oh, you poor thing. :(

[Tasha]

Yeah, it sucked. Couldn't wait for it to be over. I only finished it because I wanted to listen to the author on a podcast I like and thought it fair to finish the book.

[Dawn]

Hope this one is better, I've been reading alot of mediocre books lately. I feel your pain. :)

[Tasha]

:)

[Linda]

I am reading SEVEN DAYS IN MAY by Peter Barnes. It comes from Smashwords and is not in the system yet. I WANT to be reading the book about a woman running for President of the USA. I think the name was RUNNING, but I cannot find it anywhere. It was in my system which makes me think I am looking for the wrong title. If anyone has any information leading to finding this book I will be grateful. Sorry, no reward money.

[Inge]

Since I could not find any of the Group Read books, I just started Diana’s
The City of Refuge


The first emotion I felt was Pity! Yes, Pity - with today’s speed readers and page turners. For instance, in the Foreword, these readers would completely miss the cadence and melody of that lyrical passage. The Prologue gave me goose bumps and I had to stop to savor the mastery of the words.

I shall read it slowly, looking forward to my treat each day. As I am writing about present-day Egypt right now, I will be comfortable to comment on this beautifully written work after I finished it.

[Tasha]

@Inge, I know what you mean about speed reading. Unfortunately, I tend to read quickly, mainly I think, because I have kids and I try to squeeze in as much as possible when I have a free moment(s). I just finished reading ...quickly...and believe I will need to re-read it in a few years as the writing was just fantastic and I know I should have slowed down, but didn't.

I am looking forward to your thoughts on ! I have Diana's book on my kindle and hope to get to it soon. I also still want to get to your book as well: . :)

[[deleted user]]

I have The Axe the Shield and the Halig Rood
open at the moment.

I love reading paper copies (though I prefer not to kill trees; since I'm a reader and rereader, I think the wood hasn't gone to waste...)

I tend to skip around quickly and then turn, settle in, and savor a good read. And since I read and reread some books (Watership Down, for example), the enjoyment increases and deepens with each reading. "Aha! That's where it was leading! I should have guessed!!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Tasha knows this already, but......I just love that Pure cover. I haven't read the book and doubt I'll ever get around to it, but that is one of my favourite ever covers. So well done.

[Speesh]

I'm a couple of hundred pages into Odin's Wolves by Giles Kristian. Read and thoroughly enjoyed the first two and this is no let down so far. Sad actually, that it doesn't seem like there will be any more. Maybe he can be persuaded to return to the shield-wall after all the Civil War shenanigans have run their course.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I am getting back to a shield wall too. Now I am finished both group reads I am thinking of taking off pause and completing it.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I think pausing Shieldwall to read the two group reads was detrimental to the book. I couldn't get back into it. I've put it aside and I reading James Hockey's second book.
The Axe the Shield and the Halig Rood

The first book was:

[James]

Linda wrote: "I am reading SEVEN DAYS IN MAY by Peter Barnes. It comes from Smashwords and is not in the system yet. I WANT to be reading the book about a woman running for President of the USA. I think the n..."

Hi Linda,
Does this help?

RUNNING: Patrice Fitzgerald: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
http://www.amazon.com/RUNNING-ebook/d... - 251k - similar pagesTHE NEXT PRESIDENT IS GOING TO BE A WOMAN... Catherine Young ... This book is at times funny, heartbreaking, and suspenseful. … writing, pace, and ...

James

[[deleted user]]

Finishing up The Axe the Shield and the Halig Rood


As we all know, this is a story (second volume of the continuing story, actually) that takes place during the 'dark ages'. I realized for myself long ago that that era was given that name becaue we know so little of it - old legends, bits and pieces of tales...

A good book on the 'dark ages' sheds light...

I'm sorry to be finishing it (shortly), and then I'll comment on it. But if anyone is thinking of reading this or the first book, they won't go wrong.

[[deleted user]]

Chris wrote: "The cover art is too juvenile for the story which is marketed for age 12 up. Would like to read what others think..."

I looked. I think it is wretched. And in the firt book, why isn't Belisarius shooting at his enemies rather than off to the side?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Chris are you saying the story is targeted at 12 up? Or the cover? I haven't read the books, but if you mean the cover then I totally agree. It is the covers that put me off. Very juvenile indeed. Hard to work out what sort of books they are.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Dean wrote: "What am I reading right now. [Blinks repeatedly and looks puzzled.] You know I can't remember. I honestly can't. I do know I fell asleep twice yesterday while I was reading it. I think I nee..."

I think you need to change books too. Lol. :-)

[Tasha]

Sounds like it. :)

[Anne]

Last evening I started and so far L like it a lot.

[Crystal]

I read that and was compelled to read the rest of the series immediately. I ws very happy that I found it shortly after the last one was released so I could consume it all at once.

On the topic of food we're not supposed to eat anymore, I have a tasty family recipe for gopher turtle.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The second book in the Khan series is my absolute favourite. It was so well done.

Crystal,
Poor turtle. I assume gopher turtle is a turtle and not a recipe for gopher and turtle toghether? :)
Over here our indigenous nation is still legally allowed to hunt and eat turtle. I hate to see it as most species are endangered now. :(

[[deleted user]]

Turtle is endangered? It isn't here. I suspect, in fact, that it is raised for meat.

There is a soup - snapper soup - that people in Philalphia love. I used to eat it often whe I lived there. The recipe says that yu can substitute stew beef...

[Crystal]

Gopher turtle is endangered in Florida. Too many people were eating it in the early 20th Cent. And then development once air conditioning was invented. And, yup, it's a kind of turtle, it lives in similar burrows to gophers, usually in pine dunes.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

All Sea Turtles are protected over here as are their nesting sites. And many freshwater turtles are protected here too. We have some species of common river turtles that aren't protected, but no-one would want to eat them. Yuck. They'd taste like river sludge.

We have an endangered turtle over here, that lives in the river near my house, that breathes through its bum. :)

[[deleted user]]

Oh good lord, Terri. Breathes through its bum? It must be related to some folk I know who seem to think through their bums.

(Endangerment is not funny, however).

The tutrles (snapper) that the soup is made from are not endangered. However, they eat carrion, so my sup is made with stew beef.

[Crystal]

Oh yes, there are whole chunks of beach that are marked off limits for sea turtle nests here, this time of year actually. More this year than last, which is good news.

[Simona]

In Italy, turtles and tortoises are both endangered species. In my garden live several tortoises that don't know that, so they continue to reproduce themselves enthusiastically.

[Crystal]

As much as I hate to admit it, when I was a kid I was half glad about the decimation of the horseshoe crabs in the '70's. Those critters are mean! And they can hurt you! There was a colony between my house and my elementary school, even staying on the sidewalk wasn't always enough. So to my selfish 1st grade mind, them vanishing was great! Interestingly, they competed with gopher turtles for the same burrows at breeding time and when they went, the turtles rebounded.

In regards all this, I recently read, ThA Land Remembered and suspect my families gopher turle recipe was better, though I will never know. I quite enjoyed it, even though it uses a device I don't normally care for, they start at the end of the last descendant's life and then go back to the start and work forward to where you started. Lots of cattle rustling, freak storms, the American Civil War, "Indian" attacks. And, it shows a side of Florida tourists rarely see.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Two good news stories there. Crystal saying that more beach has been cordoned off in her area and Simona and her turtles breeding in the garden. :)

That snapping turtle, I am pretty sure we have that one appearing in Australia has an introduced pest. I believe it has been controlled, but I am going off memory.

Diana,
lol. you know some that think with their bums, I know some that speak out there bums.