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[Ace]

Me either, he's on my TBR mountain !!

[Simona]

Ace, bring him on top. You'll be happy.

[Ace]

Will do Simona!

(I just went to Amazon to buy the ebook and discovered that I have owned this volume since August 2014 ... soooo many books, so few brain cells.)

[happy]

:D

[May]

Too true for too many of us. I now check my GoodReads list before I buy books... Just can't always remember

[Allison]

Ace ⚓ wrote: "Will do Simona!

(I just went to Amazon to buy the ebook and discovered that I have owned this volume since August 2014 ... soooo many books, so few brain cells.)"

LOL.

[Bobby]

May wrote: "Would love to hear from both of you when you finish!!!"
Will do!!

[David]

Ace ⚓ wrote: "Will do Simona!

(I just went to Amazon to buy the ebook and discovered that I have owned this volume since August 2014 ... soooo many books, so few brain cells.)"

I am eternally thankful that both Amazon and Barnes and Noble remind me when I have already purchased a certain book. Otherwise I'd probably own half a dozen copies of every book in my library.

[Jane]

Fire and Sword / Harry Sidebottom

Saviour of Rome / Douglas Jackson

I Serve: A Novel of the Black Prince / Rosanne E. Lortz

[happy]

I finished The Damned of Petersburg

I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think Peters brings the reader into what the men must have been feeling and thinking during the ACW better than most anyone around. This about the battles that occurred during the summer and fall of 1864 as Grant and the Union Armies were trying to capture Petersburg and by extension Richmond. 4+ stars IM(not so)HO :)

Currently read #22 in Susanna Gregory's Mathew Bartholomew series

[Paul]

I saw this headline in the New York Times today and found it very funny. It's about a new movie called Sully starring Tom Hanks.
The headline reads: 'Sully’ Is Latest Historical Film to Prompt Off-Screen Drama. Historical? Captain Sullenberger ditched the passenger jet in the Hudson River in 2009.

[Paul]

Paul wrote: "I saw this headline in the New York Times today and found it very funny. It's about a new movie called Sully starring Tom Hanks.
The headline reads: 'Sully’ Is Latest Historical Film to Prompt Off..."

Yes. I've seen the trailer for the past couple months, and even that short look told me information i hadn't known before, like Sullenberger being told by investigators that he should have been able to turn the plane back and land at the airport!

[Kimber]

Paul wrote: "I saw this headline in the New York Times today and found it very funny. It's about a new movie called Sully starring Tom Hanks.
The headline reads: 'Sully’ Is Latest Historical Film to Prompt Off..."

In this day and age when your computer and your phone are obsolete almost as soon as they are taken out of the package and your car loses 1/3 of it's value the moment you drive it off the lot I guess anything over 5 years old is considered 'historical' and 'antique'....or at least 'retro'. *sigh*

[Alice]

Kimber wrote: "Paul wrote: "I saw this headline in the New York Times today and found it very funny. It's about a new movie called Sully starring Tom Hanks.
The headline reads: 'Sully’ Is Latest Historical Film ..."

A digression from books: I wonder if people realize how much digital waste they're creating on this soon-to-be-smothered earth :(

[Jane]

Kimber wrote: "Paul wrote: "I saw this headline in the New York Times today and found it very funny. It's about a new movie called Sully starring Tom Hanks.
The headline reads: 'Sully’ Is Latest Historical Film ..."

So what? As long as it works, I'm happy. I don't care if it's 5 years old or more.

[Paul]

I'm in the middle of The Tiger Queens. So far, excellent parallels with Iggulden's Genghis series, only from the women's point of view. Very well written. Some differences (slight) in historical details.

[Alice]

Paul wrote: "I'm in the middle of The Tiger Queens. So far, excellent parallels with Iggulden's Genghis series, only from the women's point of vie..."

Ooh, that sounds intriguing Paul - I'm adding it to my list!

[Ace]

Ace ⚓ wrote: "I'm reading The Whale Road, only a fifth of the way in and there's lots of swords and swearing and gore. Love it."

Finished. My review ...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[happy]

I finished the latest Matthew Bartholomew mystery, A Grave Concern

Fun read - this centers around the election of the chancellor of the university and the candidates start dying and the scholars and townspeople believe the devil in the obvious suspect. There is also vicious rivalry between Matt and the local barber surgeon over patients, various high value and large items keep disappearing from tombs in the churches of Cambridge. 4 stars

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

happy wrote: "I finished the latest Matthew Bartholomew mystery, A Grave Concern

Fun read - this centers around the election of the chancellor of the university and the candidates start dying an..."

I visited Cambridge in August. It's got me keen to start reading this series again. I have a soft spot for Brother Michael.

[happy]

We went about 8 yrs ago - loved it. Went Punting on the Cam and just wandered the city. It was before I found Matthew and Co., but having been there and wandered the streets has made my reading of the series much more injoyable. My brother was living in Huntington at the time and we took a bus from there to Cambridge, that was almost as fun as wandering the city. One of retirement plans is to return and spend 3 or 4 months wandering around Great Britain.

[Jane]

Reread Master and God / Lindsey Davis

[Dennis]

Just finished . This is a novel about WW 1 British airmen. Now to order the 3 sequels.

[May]

Happy, I think I'm jealous of your plans to roam around Great Britian for a few months!!! To tread where our favorite Historical people had lived would stop me in my tracks!!!

[happy]

We were only there for two weeks - no way you can even begin to explore London let alone any other part of Britain in that amount of time:) My current avatar is the enterence to the American Military Cemetery in Cambridge. (the US Flag is framed in the Oaks) Glen Miller and Joseph Kennedy Jr's names are on the wall of missing in that cemetery.

[Paul]

Four books I had on hold just landed in the library. The two for next month’s group read, “The Dark Monk” and “Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina” plus “Solitude: A Return to the Self” and “The Describer's Dictionary: a Treasury of Terms and Literary Quotations.” I am going to have to remember to use the freeze hold button. I’ll never get through all four books in three weeks.

[Alice]

I've just picked up 4 books from the Vancouver Downtown Library: Genghis: Lords of the Bow, Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan, The Book and the Sword and The Moon in the Palace.

I've just written my review of Stormbird.

[Paul]

Alice wrote: "I've just picked up 4 books from the Vancouver Downtown Library: Genghis: Lords of the Bow, Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan, The Book and the Sword an..."

You're a faster reader than I am.

[Alice]

Paul wrote: "Alice wrote: "I've just picked up 4 books from the Vancouver Downtown Library: Genghis: Lords of the Bow, Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan, [book:The Book and the Sw..."

No, no Paul, I read at snail pace. In fact I don't expect to be able to read all four in three weeks. I'll probably have to renew for a couple of them. If the library won't let me renew, I'll just have to return without reading.

[Paul]

Alice wrote: "Paul wrote: "Alice wrote: "I've just picked up 4 books from the Vancouver Downtown Library: Genghis: Lords of the Bow, Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan, [book:The Bo..."
I'm hoping to renew also. None of the books are new so it shouldn't be a problem.

[Sunny]

Winds of War by Herman Wouk. For the 2nd time.

[Alice]

I'm starting Genghis: Lords of the Bow and The Book and the Sword, the Chinese version of which was my childhood favorite - this is a genre called "martial arts & chivalry novels", i.e. stories with a mix of fantasy, romance & heroism set in China's ancient past.

[Bobby]

A buddy read with my youngest daughter for her English class!

[Alice]

Bobby wrote: " A buddy read with my youngest daughter for her English class!"

It's my favorite dystopian novel :) I guess young readers would need guidance with it.

[Bobby]

Alice wrote: "Bobby wrote: " A buddy read with my youngest daughter for her English class!"

It's my favorite dystopian novel :) I guess young readers would need guidance with it."

One of my favorites as well. Many disturbing moments but the idea of changing the past in history books to solidify Big Brother's conttol is painfully uncomfortable.

[Nazzarena]

Hi.
I've just finished , because I wanted to join the monthly group read, but I disliked it so much I think I won't go on with .
Now I'm starting .

[Andrew]

I've started "Sarum" by Edward Rutherford. I have read several by Rutherford but somehow I missed this one, though it was possibly the first of his epic series of historical novels. I love the way that it starts way back in the early mesolithic period, much earlier than his other [bookcover:Sarum: The Novel of England works.

[Histolicious]

After years of talking about ... I actually read in german of course ... and I freaking like it so far.

[Alice]

Bobby wrote: "Alice wrote: "Bobby wrote: " A buddy read with my youngest daughter for her English class!"

It's my favorite dystopian novel :) I guess young readers would need guidance with ..."

I agree - "painfully uncomfortable" - so is the idea of "Thought Police"!

[Rafael]

I am reading now The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins in a portuguese edition.

[happy]

If anyone is interested, I finally go my thoughts on Ralph Peter's novel, The Damned of Petersburg, typed up


https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

also posted in the American Civil War thread

[Paul]

I'm almost done reading The Dark Monk. It's good. I recently joined the Goodreads Historical Mystery Lovers group. I like this subset of historical fiction. Just started Hillbilly Elegy. It's not historical fiction but it's good so far. I'll review it when I'm finished.

[Allison]

Starting well I have this copy: Better be the same book.

[Jane]

Last Bus to Wisdom / Ivan Doig

[happy]

I just started by Alison Weir

[Alice]

I've started The Masterpiece of the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. So far I've read four novels from the series plus a standalone Thérèse Raquin by this author. The R-M series is a 20-volume series, but luckily they can all be read as standalones.

The Masterpiece is about the art scene in Paris in the Second Empire era. The author draws from the life experiences of impressionist painters Paul Cezanne (his good friend) and Edouard Manet (whose art he championed) and combines them to create the protagonist.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I'm starting . Hope I like it as much as the first one.

[Deb]

Hi all, I have been reading more and more non-fiction in the historical genera, so I mostly lurk.

If anyone were interested in Celtic non-fiction, I am currently reading and I can thoroughly recommend it!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I can recommend that one too. I gave it 5 stars. This was my review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
It was a wonderful book.

[Meri]

I've actually got that book here somewhere. Keep meaning to finish reading it. It is an amazing book. My friend borrowed it once and loved it!