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[Darcy]

Kimber wrote: "Darcy wrote: "Kimber wrote: "James wrote: "I just finished A Man's Word by Martin Jensen. Easy read with good humor and a great mystery. This is the third book by Jensen in this s..."

In your defence, that was 5 months ago, lots has happened since.

[Linda]

The Sekhmet Bed by Lavender Ironside. I started the book yesterday, and I like it so far. It is set in 1500's B.C.E. The ancient civilizations amaze me.

[Paula]

I have not long finished reading The Serpent Swordby Matthew Harffy. Now I am reading the secondA Clash of Kings book in Game of Thrones. I absolutely love the Game of Thrones

[Bruce]

I'm glad you're enjoying "Odin's Child", Sherry. I look forward to seeing "Roma Amor" in print someday soon.
Bruce Macbain

[Jane]

An Ember in the Ashes / Sabaa Tahir

[Monica]

I am currently reading Lady of the English by Elizabeth Chadwick.

[Gretchen]

The Tiger Queens: The Women of Genghis Khan- So far so good.

[Dawn]

I started a series with Friday the Rabbi Slept Late and liked it so much I've begun the next book in the series right away Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry.

[Thomas]

Now I'm reading Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell. I came off loving The Pale Horseman, even more then The last Kingdom, so I'm eager to read this.

[Linda]

I just now finished The Sekhmet Bed by Lavender Ironside, and I liked it. I got mixed up on my King Tuts which would not have happened had I read the author's notes before I read the book. It was free from Amazon when I got it.

[Gretchen]

Stayed up way too late with last night and now I'm moving on to another of Thornton's novels

[Joe]

Read a new book called The Sabrael Confession, about the constant battle between Gods angels and the devil and his demons. goes through all of time from prehistory to Jesus's birth all the way up to modern times! it was a fantastic book and I am the only one who has even read it on all of goodreads i think!

[Darcy]

The Sabrael Confession

[Jane]

Aristotle Detective / Margaret Doody

[Darcy]

I'm partway through this fictionalised life of Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson Euphoria.

If you've studied anthropology (particularly in North America) probably this book won't offer anything new to you. But if you're into an inter-war historical fiction set in the South Pacific (New Guinea/Australia) and want to read about a love triangle between anthropologists, then this might be for you.

ETA: The cover of my edition isn't the one posted. GR doesn't have it on file, so I posted the most popular one.

[Teanka]

Darcy wrote: "I'm partway through this fictionalised life of Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson "

I liked this book, it was a quick read and some of its conclusions are relevant to scientists in general, not only antropology (which admittedly is of no particular interest to me). I partly wished the book was longer and more detailed though.

I read the hardcover edition borrowed from my library with exactly the cover that you posted. I usually don't notice cover art, but this one caught my attention, so colourful!

[happy]

Just starting the last of my Jeri Westerson's Crispin Guest marathon, it the 7th book I've read, but the 3rd in the series



It's been a good series - Sam Spade meets Richard II, or more acurately John of Gaunt and his son Henry Bolingbroke (the future Henry IV)

[Linda]

The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora by Stephanie Thornton. Good read!

[Histolicious]

Today I have a 8 hour trainride ... so I read half of

I never read a Agatha Christie Book before ...

[Barbara]

The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong

[Gretchen]

Linda wrote: "The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora by Stephanie Thornton. Good read!"

I'm glad you are enjoying it. I might be starting a Byzantine kick now that I'm done with that novel.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Anell wrote: "Today I have a 8 hour trainride ... so I read half of

I never read a Agatha Christie Book before ..."

That's a good one. My favourite, though is Death on the Nile

[Allison]

I've started a past group read: and am really liking it.

[Bobby]

[happy]

I finished The Demon's Parchment- good and quick read.

currently reading

The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army

NF about Napoleon's Grand Armee and the invasion of Russia and how typhus destroyed it.

[Kimber]

Just finished The Red Tree and staring on The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes :)

[Erica]

Just started Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

[Bobby]

Erica wrote: "Just started Moloka'i by Alan Brennert"

Read this a while back and remember being mesmerized by the descriptions and characterizations. The whole hidden story of Moloka'i and the leper colonies is fascinating.

[Jane]

The Monsters of Templeton

Author's love of Cooperstown, NY [the fictional Templeton] through genealogy of members of a family.

[Histolicious]

I started reading yesterday and it is AWESOME!

Murder ... Chess ... the Tudors!
OMG! I love it!

[Mark]

The Vagrant

[Jerry]

Have just finished Lamentation. Just as good as the rest of the Shardlake series. Must try to catch up on the monthly reads though. Stormbird is next up.

[happy]

Finished The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army - excellent look at Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the role disease in general and typhus in particular played in destroying his army and defeating him

currently reading



Mr. Cornwell's first NF book

[Histolicious]

I finished and I adore this book.

And I startet (I received an ARC via Netgalley)

[Linda]

30,000 Leagues Undersea: True Tales of a Submariner and Deep Submergence Pilot by Tom Vetter. This book costs less than $5.00 on Amazon. Get it if you possibly can. I started it today and am thrilled with the author's stories.

[Gretchen]

Finished The Last Jew (it was alright) and I'm starting Maisie Dobbs. I am also working on because my six year old found it at the library and told me I needed to read it. We were looking for books to help her identify some of the birds in our backyard.

[happy]

I finished Cornwell's book on the Waterloo campaign



Good introduction to the campaign and more importantly the battles that occured immediately before the main event - Quatre Bras and Ligny

Excellent illustrations, many in full color - almost coffee table book quality and maps - 4+ stars, I'll type up my more complete thoughts as I get the time.

Currently reading Jeff Shaara's new one on the American Civil War



It's about Sherman's March to the Sea to the end of the Civil War

[Kimber]

Blood & Beauty: The Borgias by Sarah Dunant. Really enjoying this one as a companion piece to Kate Quinn's Serpent and the Pearl duo. Quinn tells her story through Giulia Farnese, mistress of Rodrigo Borgia, and captures the female perspective perfectly. Dunant delivers a third person narrative through the eyes of several characters but concentrates mainly on Cesare. It's almost as if they conspired while writing. Where one narrative has holes the other fills in quite nicely. In B & B, you don't see more than a paragraph dedicated to Farnese's capture by the French but that's okay because it's been fully covered by Quinn in her duo. I'd highly recommend these three books being read together.

*edit* sorry...I didn't mean to actually start a review here :)

[Teanka]

Kimber wrote: "Blood & Beauty: The Borgias by Sarah Dunant. Really enjoying this one as a companion piece to Kate Quinn's Serpent and the Pearl duo. "

I want to read this one for sure and I'm sorry I didn't manage to do it in the appropriate month when it lost in the polls. I'm glad that many people here seem to have enjoyed it. I'll try to read it some time later this year. It will be nice to compare it with the two TV series about the Borgias that I watched fairly recently.

[Dawn]

I'm reading
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, The Middle Sea & Horrid Mysteries

[Jane]

The Crusader / Michael Alexander Eisner

[Chuck]

I recently started The Empty Throne--about 100 pages in. It appears to be typical Cornwell--another great story in his Saxon Chronicles.

[Andrew]

I'm reading the Ides of April by Lindsay Davis. I'm a big fan of the Falcon series but much less inspired by the unhumerous and rather arrogant daughter and fellow informer Flavia Alba - it may be the first and last of this series that I indulge in

[Gretchen]

I feel like I have been reading Odin's Child: Book One of the Odd Tangle-Hair Saga forever now. The story is finally picking up but maybe that's because the protagonist finally got out of Iceland. No offense to anyone, but I found Iceland rather dull.
Also reading The Siege Winter finally!
And The Passionate Brood - This is the cover of the copy I am reading and I have to say I love the old romanticized feel it has. Maybe I can pass it off as one of those "mom books" I'm suppose to be reading.

[William]

I'm reading Zodiac unmasked though I'm looking forward to getting stuck into Cornwell's new novel.

[Victor]

I'm reading a lot of Historical Non-Fiction now, but what the heck, I'll post it here.

I just read by Erik Larson. It's about Dr. H.H.Holmes as well as the work that went in to creating the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair.
My review ===> https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Now i'm reading by Annie Jacobsen

[Kimber]

I took a break from the Italian Renaissance and picked up A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. I'm a sucker for a good satire and he's one of the best. I'm planning on skimming the Wiki on Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and then picking up Moore's sequel to Fool - The Serpent of Venice . Amusing myself in the meantime with a fun little read The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

[Allison]

^^I like the Pink Carnation series. Usually not my kind of read but they're fun and mindless. If you can get past the heroine in the first book, the rest of the girls aren't nearly as dumb :)

[Mark]

Reading sci fi/cyberpunk

[Kimber]

Allie wrote: "^^I like the Pink Carnation series. Usually not my kind of read but they're fun and mindless. If you can get past the heroine in the first book, the rest of the girls aren't nearly as dumb :)"

Lol thank you Allie..I was thinking that. She is pretty flighty.