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[Edward]

Enjoying "Gone With The Wind". by Margaret Mitchell

[Gretchen]

Recently started Forsaken Soul and for something different I'm am trying in the audio version. I started listening to it today while I was doing odd housework. I'm not sure how much I really absorbed. My mom always said I wasn't a very good listener.

[Darcy]

Gretchen wrote: "My mom always said I wasn't a very good listener."

My brother was told that a lot. I always chalked it as Mom-speak that really means: selective hearing

[Shannon Elizabeth]

Darcy wrote: "Gretchen wrote: "My mom always said I wasn't a very good listener."

My brother was told that a lot. I always chalked it as Mom-speak that really means: selective hearing"

I used to love books on tape when I was younger. I recently bought a couple that were freebies from audible with a trial subscription, and I was really excited to get into them. Turns out adult me has the "selective hearing" that you're talking about. I doubt I heard more than a paragraph the whole time it was running. I tried to make myself sit down and listen, or listen in my car, but it just doesn't do it for me. Thank god it was a trial subscription to audible!

[Pamela]

I've just started reading Into the Fire by Manda Scott. Getting used to the double timeline with the modern story and the medieval one running together - it took longer to get into each plot but am enjoying it now.

[Darcy]

Pamela wrote: "I've just started reading Into the Fire by Manda Scott. Getting used to the double timeline with the modern story and the medieval one running together - it took lon..."

Regrettably, I have to pack this one for now as I'm moving in 41 days, but hoping to get to it not long afterward.

[Jane]

The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Living with a Tawny Owl / / Martin Windrow

[Histolicious]

Im reading and it is so so good.

When I saw the book in my favorite bookstore I tought it was about Jack the Ripper. Becaus 1888 + Man with tophat, but my bookseller looked at me like this: Oo and said: "Oh my sweet summerchild."

This book drives me crazy its dark and insane and kind of odd an a sexual way ... and I love love love the writingstyle. I catch myself now and then reading the words aloud and whispering: "Jesus freaking Christ" all the time :D

[Darcy]

That cover is gorgeous!

[Linda]

Mila 18 by Leon Uris. Ireney's review was excellent.

[Monica]

I just started The Wild Irish yesterday.

[happy]

Linda wrote: "Mila 18 by Leon Uris. Ireney's review was excellent."

Good book! Read it ages ago, hope you enjoy it!

[Gretchen]

Linda wrote: "Mila 18 by Leon Uris. Ireney's review was excellent."

I think I need to go back and re-read some Leon Uris. I read nearly all of his work in high school for various history classes and I learned quite a bit from his work.

[Kimber]

Monica wrote: "I just started The Wild Irish yesterday."

I enjoyed that one but always wondered how much was fact and how much was fictional.

[Keith]

Just getting into



I'm reading it on a Kindle Voyage. I don't know if it's because of that or something else.

I'm annoyed by the ridiculous definitions that are placed above a line in the book making the line spacing very large. The words are IMO simple words that are used in every day common English.

Other than that the book is OK so far.

Keith

[Jane]

Rereading Germanicus / David Wishart

[Jane]

I have finished The Pillars of Rome but the system will not let me mark it as read or let me post a review.

[Jerry]

Linda wrote: "Mila 18 by Leon Uris. Ireney's review was excellent."

I read this many years ago and thought it was excellent. Probably the best Leon Uris story of all that I have read.

[Monica]

Kimber wrote: "Monica wrote: "I just started The Wild Irish yesterday."

I enjoyed that one but always wondered how much was fact and how much was fictional."

I'm still very early into it and so far I'm thinking that it is heavily fiction, but we'll see.

[Chris ( librocubicularist )]

Halfway through Land of Blood and Water by Martin Lake and it is really rather spiffing.

[Kimber]

Keith wrote: "Just getting into



I'm reading it on a Kindle Voyage. I don't know if it's because of that or something else.

I'm annoyed by the ridiculous definitions th..."

I have a Kindle Voyage and just letting you know that you can turn that feature off. It's called Word Wise. Go into your settings and down to the bottom under 'Reading Options'. The first category is Language Learning. You can slide it over to off and that should take care of the definitions. Most books don't offer the service so if you haven't run into it before it comes as a surprise. I do like the Vocabulary Builder. The settings for that are on the same page and it tracks the words you look up in the dictionary and saves them. You can review them later, cross them off as 'mastered' when you know them and/or use the flashcard option to test yourself on what you've learned. It's a GREAT tool for kiddos as well (which is kind of what the Word Wise feature is for as well :D ) Good Luck! Hope that takes care of it.

[Kimber]

Monica wrote: "Kimber wrote: "Monica wrote: "I just started The Wild Irish yesterday."

I enjoyed that one but always wondered how much was fact and how much was fictional."

I'm still very early in..."

Now that I've thought about it I would agree with you. The meeting between Elizabeth and Grace O'Malley would be a great way to construct a situation in where they could hear each other's stories but in that day and time would never happen. Gloriana would have had her head off before she made it halfway up the Thames.

[Histolicious]

Today I started (the German Edition)

[Keith]

Thanks Kimber. That took care of it.

Keith

[Monica]

Kimber wrote: "Monica wrote: "Kimber wrote: "Monica wrote: "I just started The Wild Irish yesterday."

I enjoyed that one but always wondered how much was fact and how much was fictional."

I'm stil..."

Exactly. There would have been no sharing of spiced wine as they shared life stories in the Queen's chambers. A nice literary device to compare the two women, but very unrealistic.

[Shannon Elizabeth]

Jane wrote: "I have finished The Pillars of Rome but the system will not let me mark it as read or let me post a review."

I've been having that problem, too. I don't know what the problem is. I just finished reading Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (which is great) and I couldn't post a review or shelve it. I'm slightly relieved that it's not just me who is having that problem, but I'm sorry that it's happening to others. Wonder what's up?

[Sunny]

Just started "New York" by Edward Rutherfurd. I love his writing!

[Bobby]

Sunny wrote: "Just started "New York" by Edward Rutherfurd. I love his writing!"

[Bobby]

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[Laureen]

Sunny wrote: "Just started "New York" by Edward Rutherfurd. I love his writing!"

Just wondering Sunny, are some of Rutherfurd's books better than others? I see a lot of people admiring his writing here but I have only read "London" and although it was interesting, I found it a very long, laborious read. I would like to have another go at his writing but if a book is long, it takes me ages yo read unless the writing leads me on.

[Ace]

Laureen, I read my first Rutherfurd recently - Paris, it was a massive book. Because I had just been to Paris a couple of months prior to reading it, I could relate to some of the areas and buildings and general descriptions of life in Paris. But....it was a bit long for my ability to concentrate and stay interested in all of the characters.

I will be reading The Forest next (maybe in a couple of years).

Sorry to jump in there with your question Sunny!

[Laureen]

Ace wrote: "Laureen, I read my first Rutherfurd recently - Paris, it was a massive book. Because I had just been to Paris a couple of months prior to reading it, I could relate to some of the areas and buildin..."

Thank you Ace. I am glad to have everybody's opinion on these great tomes. I can' t say honestly that I liked "London" so it would be interesting to here why people like Rutherfurd or don't like his writing. Maybe the people who enjoy his work are those who can relate personally to the areas he writes about?

[Ace]

Laureen wrote: "Ace wrote: "Laureen, I read my first Rutherfurd recently - Paris, it was a massive book. Because I had just been to Paris a couple of months prior to reading it, I could relate to some of the areas..."

I'll admit, if I hadn't been to Paris I may have been quite lost in it!

Oh, and I also listened to the audio so it was hard to keep up with names and placenames which I find easier to remember if they are printed. I often got distracted and stopped 'actively' listening.

This doesn't happen with all audios I've listened to (that was my 4th of 5 to date).

[Monica]

Sunny wrote: "Just started "New York" by Edward Rutherfurd. I love his writing!"

I loved his books on Ireland, The Princes of Ireland and The Rebels of Ireland. They are massive, but the story keeps moving and I have never been to Ireland. I did take a class on Irish history in college though.

[Jane]

Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar / Rob Goodman. Biography of Cato.

[Gretchen]

Margaret of Anjou and The Sisters of Versailles

[Andrew]

Laureen wrote: "Sunny wrote: "Just started "New York" by Edward Rutherfurd. I love his writing!"

Just wondering Sunny, are some of Rutherfurd's books better than others? I see a lot of people admiring his writin..."
I admit to loving his books, especially the Forest, London and the Irish sagas. Currently reading "Paris" whichI like except for the fact the chapters aren;t in time sequence. I haven't been to most of the places he writes about, maybe that's an attraction for me.

[Keith]

Flight of the Intruder.

Flight of the Intruder

[Ace]

Andrew wrote: "I admit to loving his books, especially the Forest, London and the Irish sagas. Currently reading "Paris" whichI like except for the fact the chapters aren;t in time sequence. I haven't been to most of the places he writes about, maybe that's an attraction for me. ..."

Andrew, Mr Ace enjoyed Paris more so than I did and he was the one who put me on to Rutherfurd recommending The Forest, which we have a paperback of at home, so I'm glad you also liked it.

[Histolicious]

Gretchen wrote: "Margaret of Anjou and The Sisters of Versailles"

so the Sisters of Versailles is on my want to read list now!
DAMN it ... this group ... so many books ... so little time!

[Gretchen]

I have an advanced copy :) From what I understand, the author is working on a trilogy. I don't know as much about the French royals as I do the British but who doesn't love the escapades of the Sun King?

[Ace]

Nadine wrote: "DAMN it ... this group ... so many books ... so little time! ..."

I know right!

[David]

Interesting thread on Rutherfurd. My particular favorite is "Sarum" . The only problem I had with it was that I felt he rushed through the last couple of chapters and should have made it into a separate book. There were stories there that, in my opinion, didn't get a fair telling. The characters were compelling, however; and the time periods covered were of interest to me.

[Kimber]

Gretchen wrote: "I have an advanced copy :) From what I understand, the author is working on a trilogy. I don't know as much about the French royals as I do the British but who doesn't love the escapades of the Sun..."

I'm looking forward to this one. I've read a lot about Versailles and this period of French history but it's always about The Sun King, Louis XIV, and never about his son. It's 11.99 on kindle so waiting for the price to come down a bit but like Nadine said, "DAMN it ... this group ... so many books ... so little time! ..." I'm up to 99 books loaded on my kindle voyager that I have not read, 73 on my original kindle and at least 20 sitting in a pile at home. Plus my fiancé gave me a very belated Xmas gift when I got here to Canada.... Codices Illustres: Masterpieces of Illumination . I adore illustrated manuscripts and this book is deliciously beautiful but time consuming!

[happy]

I started



It's a general history of Britain's involvement on India's Northwest Frontier (Pakistan) and Afganistan from the 1830's through to India independence in 1947.

[Linda]

Mila 18 by Leon Uris, thanks to Ireney's review of the book.

[Linda]

Mila 18 by Leon Uris, thanks to Ireney's review. I cannot find KHYBER in ebook, but thanks to Happy for putting it out there.

[happy]

It's an older book - copywrite 1977, so they probably haven't released as an e-book

Mila 18 is in my pesonal top 3 of Mr. Uris' books. I liked it better than Exodus

[Marilee]

by Stephen Jarvis. This novel based loosely on Dicken's Pickwick Papers has been glowingly reviewed. It's long… I just got started on the big library book. Unfortunately, big books like this are heavy and unwieldy to carry around. But… it's $14.95 in the Kindle version, so…

[happy]

I also started



Since I'm reading this one on my Nook - it'll take a while. I normally only read the Nook when it is inconvient to read a "real" book, ie on the bus/train, in church, only when the speaker is boring of course, at my granddaughters dance recital etc :)