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[Jane]

Margaret wrote: "C. wrote: "Well, I am glad to hear the support here for keeping historical fiction historical. Though I kept my novel's back story to a bare minimum, I had one reviewer gripe that my book was too c..."

Motto of a playgoer's group my mom belonged to:
BYOC = Be Your Own Critic

[Mark]

[Kimber]

Going back to an old group read and trying A Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger.

[Dawn]

Because I wasn't reading enough books already, I've picked up The Tournament by Matthew Reilly

[Dawn]

I am having a very successful weekend and have begun three more books:
The Baklava Club by Jason Goodwin
Roseblood by Paul Doherty
Appetite by Philip Kazan

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Hope you enjoy Roseblood, Dawn.

[Allison]

I had the complete opposite of reading weekends Dawn :( but finally found a book I read more than a few pages of:

[Allison]

Also finished I don't know why I keep reading Agatha Christie. I know she's revered but I always know who the killer is within the first couple of chapters. Maybe I just like that vintage feel.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Agatha Christie is novel candy. Or pecans. You can't read just one. :p

[Allison]

I suppose. I added some today I don't ever remember reading. We'll see.

[Dawn]

I love Agatha Christie, I'm in the process of reading them all. :)

[Linda]

!The Agincourt Bride by Joanna Hickson. The first seventeen pages are good.

[Linda]

Allie wrote: "I had the complete opposite of reading weekends Dawn :( but finally found a book I read more than a few pages of: "

The book cover is pretty. Did you notice where the red rose was placed? I wonder if there is significance in that?

[Mark]

fantasy

[Gretchen]

I just did something I rarely do. I did not finish a book! Seriously, the list of books I've started and never finished is now up to 4. A Flower for the Queen was given to me as an arc but the eBook edition I got was so poorly edited, I couldn't finish it. I wasreally distracted by the lackof the useof a spacebar. The 65% of the book I read was full of sentences like that. I also found a review where someone gave away a major plot twist without announcing the spoiler. The combination of things made me decide it was acceptable to move on to other books.

[Kimber]

Gretchen wrote: "I just did something I rarely do. I did not finish a book! Seriously, the list of books I've started and never finished is now up to 4. A Flower for the Queen was given to me as an ..."

I just finished an ebook like that. The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell. I know she has an editor and her paper novels are fine but the person that transferred this book to digital didn't know how to type and/or use the space bar. I was so annoyed I started editing the book instead of reading it.

Needed a nice, light read after A Burnable Book so I am reading Maids of Misfortune - a nice Victorian era San Francisco murder mystery.

[Gretchen]

I get that certain things get lost in translation but I didn't realize print English was all that different from eBook English. The book was awful. I was a little disappointed as it was a story with potential. I might pick up a copy when it comes to print.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Gretchen wrote: "I get that certain things get lost in translation but I didn't realize print English was all that different from eBook English. The book was awful. I was a little disappointed as it was a story wit..."

It's not. I have a large number of old favourites on eBook. There is no difference between them and the paper copies.

But there are some dreadful eBook creation programmes out there.

[Darcy]

I know that ebook formatting is not the same as bound formatting, and not just a few authors have been caught out by this. It's a problem because the different ebook types (i.e. Moby, PDF, ePub), so formatting requires a lot of work. Also, the don't some authors use are not recommended for ebooks. Spacing is also a huge problem with ebooks.
Basically, you need someone with some experience to do it, but I reckon it's a cost some authors would rather not pay for.
It's obvious when authors do throw additional dosh into it.

[Jane]

Gretchen wrote: "I just did something I rarely do. I did not finish a book! Seriously, the list of books I've started and never finished is now up to 4. A Flower for the Queen was given to me as an ..."

The lousy proofing is another reason for me to avoid eReaders. People don't care about precision any more.

[Linda]

The Agincourt Bride by Joanna Hickson. I finished early, early this morning. I recommend the book to historical fiction readers. I got the book free from Amazon one day this week thanks to my Goodreads friends.

[Dawn]

I'm still on my Canadian author kick so I picked up The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro last night.

[Allison]

Aww crud. I just bought The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn on my kindle :(

[Kimber]

Allie wrote: "Aww crud. I just bought The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn on my kindle :("

It's not a bad story at all Allie..if you can bypass the editing and spelling mistakes (and the fact the author says that King Henry VII died before his son Arthur....)

[Histolicious]

Started with Vienna Bloodjust yesterday. I loved the charakters from the start when I read Mortal Mischief a couple of years ago.

This epic bromance between Liebermann and Inspector Rheinhardt ♥ Their musical evenings and conversations. Everything is so sophisticated ... about Dr. Liebermann

And there was this hot, sexy, adorable cake eating scene between hin and his fiancée in Book #1 and I´m looking forward for more cake and more hot, sexy, adorable scenes in this one. :)

[Allison]

Kimber wrote: "Allie wrote: "Aww crud. I just bought The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn on my kindle :("

It's not a bad story at all Allie..if you can bypass the editing and spelling mistakes (and the ..."

Hmmm....

[Victor]

Just finished by George MacDonald Fraser. I'm still impressed at the historical detail he gives his book while keeping them funny. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Now I'm reading by John Scalzi which is not historical fiction at all.

[Linda]

Ghosts and Phantoms Part Iby William Byron Hillman.

[Pamela]

Now reading Heresy . Enjoying the period and setting (Tudor Oxford), the mystery hasn't really got underway yet but it's being nicely set up.

[Gretchen]

I started reading The Shakespeare Mask. It's a novel about the Oxford theory which suggests Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford wrote all of Shakespeare's works. Being that Oxford was a noble, he wasn't allowed to publish any works so he used a poor boy from Stratford as his alias. I have to confess I don't know enough about Shakespeare to have a strong opinion about the Oxford theory but this book was free and the premise interesting enough. I'm still plugging away at The Gates of Rome. I have to have it finished by Tuesday when it's due back at the library.

[happy]

I finished a non-fiction look at the Air War in the Pacific



The author's father was a B-24 pilot with the 494th BG and is written in a scrap book sytle

Currently reading



It's a murder mystery set in London the year after the Ripper Murder's - I'm about 40 pgs in and so far it's very promising

[Dawn]

I've had The Yard on my TBR for 2 years now, I look forward to your opinion on it happy.

[Darcy]

I have a copy of it too. It's one of those ones slowly creeping up the TBR pile.

[Sandra]

I am reading The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks and really liking it thus far.

[Darcy]

Sandra wrote: "I am reading The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks and really liking it thus far."

It's one of my favourites by the late Iain Banks

[Mark]

Darcy wrote: "Sandra wrote: "I am reading The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks and really liking it thus far."

It's one of my favourites by the late Iain Banks"

Thats the only thing I have read of his.

[Sherry]

I recently finished The Devil in the Marshalsea, a mystery/suspense novel mostly set in 1727 London debtors' prison (and a pretty horrible place it was, too). Gave it five stars. My review's here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit...

[Allison]

Although not fiction, I just read The Pianist pretty much in one sitting.

[Bobby]

Victor wrote: "Just finished by George MacDonald Fraser. I'm still impressed at the historical detail he gives his book while keeping them funny. https://www.go..."

Here's John Scalzi's latest


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

[Linda]

I, Claudius by Robert Graves. I believe Mr. Graves and I will meet for the first time today.

[Jane]

People of the Book / Geraldine Brooks

[Gretchen]

All done with the August group reads and not a moment too soon! I am planning on starting I, Claudius but first I have to finish The Seven Wonders before it's due at the library.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Currently reading A Burnable Book

[Dawn]

Only a few months behind there Margaret! :)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

The library only had one copy.... I was about 15th in the queue. :p

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Just finished this one though: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sandra]

Just started The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths. This is the second book in a mystery series featuring a forensic archeology professor.

[Victor]

Bobby wrote: "Victor wrote: "Just finished by George MacDonald Fraser. I'm still impressed at the historical detail he gives his book while keeping them funny. ..."

Looks good, a serious turn for him I think.

[happy]

Margaret wrote: "Currently reading A Burnable Book"

this one just came in for me from the library - I'll get to it in the next month or so :)

[Kimber]

happy wrote: "Margaret wrote: "Currently reading A Burnable Book"

this one just came in for me from the library - I'll get to it in the next month or so :)"

Check out the map on the Where in the World link. It really helps you get the lay of the land for A Burnable Book.