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[Kimber]

Allie wrote: "I read a whole three pages.... my heads just not in the right place for reading :(
2014 is a book bust."

I know what you mean Allie. I usually average a book every one to three days. I'm on something like Day 15 with The Queen's Pleasure. It's not a bad read. I'm just not in the right frame of mind. *sigh*

[Allison]

Sorry :(

Sucks doesn't it?

[Histolicious]

Halfway through and holy cow I LOVE it.

I ordered the other two books, because I cant wait.

Basically it´s a book about Troy and come on ... we ALL know what´s gonna happen. All my friends are dead or will be dead soon. (except Odysseus ... lucky bastard!)

Everytime a character I know shows up, I start fangirling, like: OMG Kassandra ... OOOOOOMG Odysseus.

This book is just perfect.

[Dawn]

The first one was definitely my favorite but the entire trilogy is very good.

[Gretchen]

I recently flew through the last book in the Marie Antoinette trilogy by Juliet Grey. Confessions of Marie Antoinette was far and above the best of the three books. I wished the author would have used the skill she possessed in the third book in the other two books. I also knocked out The Fugitive Queen. It was the best book in the Ursula Blanchard series so far. I've started The Venus Throw. I am going to be sad when I run out of Gordianus books to read.

[Lariela]

I just started In Search of the Cradle of Civilization. It looked interesting.

[Gretchen]

I finished an arc of and now everything else is taking a back seat as I look more into the life of the Empress Elisabeth. I need a little more background information before I can write my review. I felt like the author overlooked some pretty significant issues in the early life of Elisabeth. The combination of the Wittelsbach and Hapsburg families was diabolical to say the least.

[Linda]

The Golden Lynx by C. P. Lesley

[C.P.]

The Empty Throne, by Bernard Cornwell. Dawn overwhelmed my (pathetically weak) resistance. And yeah, that other book. ;-)

[Dawn]

And I went to buy cookies, not oreos but still.... :)

[C.P.]

Mwaaahaahaahaa! :-D

[Bobby]

Almost finished with

[Sandra]

I am reading by Suzanne Desroches about the women sent out from France in the 17th century to Canada as brides for French settlers. This is a first novel and thus suffers a bit in character development, but it is still a good read.

[Kimber]

Finally finished The Queen's Pleasureand went through The House on the Borderland and The Turn of the Screwfor a little classic horror kick. Haven't decided where to go next....so many choices.

[Jane]

The End of Sparta / Victor Davis Hanson: fictional treatment of Battle of Leuctra and beyond.

[Diego]

Closing the year with Texas. With 1300 pages this book would probably take me over 2 months to read, and given the fact that I'm returning to my RPG videogame, well... I probably won't return to this board in a while =P. I wish you all from now a merry X-mas and a happy new year.

[Kimber]

Diego wrote: "Closing the year with Texas. With 1300 pages this book would probably take me over 2 months to read, and given the fact that I'm returning to my RPG videoga..."

I've lived in Texas for many, many moons. When this book first came out my Grandfather (a HUGE Michener fan) drove down from Missouri, loaded me and the dog in the car and proceeded to drive all over Texas looking at the landmarks and locations mentioned in the book. I wish I had been older. I could have appreciated it more but it was still a blast and a great memory.

[Diego]

Kimber wrote: "Diego wrote: "Closing the year with Texas. With 1300 pages this book would probably take me over 2 months to read, and given the fact that I'm returning to ..."

That sounds so awesome. I can't see a better way to digest a Michener or a Rutherfurd book. That's the closest we could get to time travel...for now...I still have my hopes on for this invention :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I swore that this year I would try and get back to the other favourite genre of mine, military non fiction. I failed. Hardly fit in enough hist fic books due to a very stressful year.
I decided 2015 I would try again. Getting an early start now with: Beyond Hell and Back: How America's Special Operations Forces Became the World's Greatest Fighting Unit

[Dawn]

I hope you have better luck reading them next year.

[Kimber]

Reading White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Okay read so far.

[happy]

Terri wrote: "I swore that this year I would try and get back to the other favourite genre of mine, military non fiction. I failed. Hardly fit in enough hist fic books due to a very stressful year.
I decided 20..."

That one looks good - added

[Linda]

Song at Dawn by Jean Gill. The book has a slow beginning which I expect will liven up now that Eleanor, when she was Louis' wife, has entered the story. I am promised words of intrigue about the Jewish dilemma, Muslim aggression into Europe, and a song/dance/juggling act by the Troubadour and company.

[Allison]

Having hard time getting into Can't get past 70 pages.

[Pamela]

Reading Sacrilege . I like this series, the combination of religion, politics and murder appeals to me.

[Darcy]

Pamela wrote: "Reading Sacrilege . I like this series, the combination of religion, politics and murder appeals to me."

I've heard this is the best of the lot so far. I haven't gotten to it yet though.

[Dawn]

I'm going to try and fit in the first of that series for the January group read. I've been meaning to read it for so long now.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Allie wrote: "Having hard time getting into Can't get past 70 pages."

Persevere if you can. It is worth it.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Am organizing my reads for my two week break. Have decided on To The Ends Of The Earth. It's been sitting there for over a year. Over 700 pages long, perfect for the break when I'll only be reading a little, because I'll be busy doing other things.

[Kimber]

Margaret wrote: "Am organizing my reads for my two week break. Have decided on To The Ends Of The Earth. It's been sitting there for over a year. Over 700 pages long, perfect for the break when I'..."

Ooh Good luck Margaret. I love Golding but he can be a difficult author to read.
Still working on White Seed and thinking about sinking my teeth into Follett's Century Trilogy next: , ,

[Edward]

by Bernard Cornwell

Enjoying the adventure again.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

happy wrote: "That one looks good - added .."

It is very good, happy. The topic given through the detailed retelling of a handful of poignant operations. the first one being Operation Kingpin. The operation to rescue POWs in North Vietnam.
It is well written.

[happy]

Terri wrote: "happy wrote: "That one looks good - added .."

It is very good, happy. The topic given through the detailed retelling of a handful of poignant operations. the first one being Operation Kingpin. ..."

Good to hear

[Benjamin]

Just finished The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Absolutely awesome book.


In the middle of Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

So far its really good.

[Allison]

Margaret wrote: "Allie wrote: "Having hard time getting into Can't get past 70 pages."

Persevere if you can. It is worth it."

I'm trying.... but for now I've put it aside and picked up this:

[happy]

Kimber wrote: "...Ooh Good luck Margaret. I love Golding but he can be a difficult author to read.
Still working on White Seed and thinking about sinking my teeth into Follett's Century Trilogy next: ..."

I liked the first one and I thought the second was one of his weaker efforts, thoo I still liked it. I am waiting on the library to get the third.

[Kimber]

Put off the century trilogy for now and reading a book about Richard III called The Daughter of Time

[Darcy]

Kimber wrote: "Put off the century trilogy for now and reading a book about Richard III called The Daughter of Time"

The protagonist made me laugh a lot in this one.

[Gretchen]

I have a huge pile of books to knock out before the end of the month. They all need to go back to the library and I really want to finish all of them. After that I need to spend some time focusing on the books I own that I have yet to read along with the pile of ARCs that increases every day.
Right now I'm working on The Pale Horseman. Uhtred comes out swinging in this novel. If I didn't know any better, I'd say he really was one of those nasty redheaded Vikings.

[Kimber]

Darcy wrote: "Kimber wrote: "Put off the century trilogy for now and reading a book about Richard III called The Daughter of Time"

The protagonist made me laugh a lot in this one."

I'm definitely enjoying it so far. It's a refreshing perspective and an interesting concept. I like the protagonist too. He's hard-boiled and not ashamed of it. :D

[C.P.]

Love The Daughter of Time. I've read it so often that I can almost recite it from memory. When you finish, you may get a kick out of Elizabeth Peters' version, The Murders of Richard III. She's a Ricardian too, but a slightly less dogmatic one—and she plays off Tey's novel with great skill.

[Jane]

Currently: The Book of Madness and Cures
and The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China

and I may reread The End of Sparta I liked it so much.

[Gretchen]

I am going to have to put The Pale Horseman on hold. The copy I got from the library smells like someone smoked a carton of cigarettes while reading it. I get a headache every time I open the book. I will just have to wait until I can get a different copy. I am going to breeze through The Siren Queen while I wait.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I understand that. I would take it back too.

[Jane]

Too bad the library just doesn't take it back into Tech Services and leave it standing up open for several weeks. I bet much of the smell would disappear.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

When I used to be a smoker (a long, long time ago now) my books always stank of ciggie smoke. I never noticed until I leant someone a book and they told me, and then when I gave up smoking I discovered what others smelled on them.
It took a long time for that smell to go away. I ended up throwing out a lot of them. They were no good for trading in at a used bookstore, smelling of ciggies and yellow from smoke.

Glad to not be a smoker anymore. :)

[Darcy]

Probably I'm the only one, when borrowing a stinky book, whips out the ozone pad/sponge thingy and gives the pages a quick wipe. Takes the smell away quick-like.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

ozone pad/sponge thingy?? What is this you speak of?

[Darcy]

I haven't seen them in a while, looking at the internet, I'm having trouble finding a link to show what it is. But it looks like a grey-ish sponge, and you can use it to just wipe them down. I used to also have ozone in a margarine sized container, (like a big air freshener), but can't even find that online lol

[Kimber]

C.P. wrote: "Love The Daughter of Time. I've read it so often that I can almost recite it from memory. When you finish, you may get a kick out of Elizabeth Peters' version, [book:The Murders of Richard III|6651..."

I might just do that. Thank you for the recommendation. Brian - Have fun on From a Buick 8. Not my favorite King book but entertaining as always. :D