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[Nate]

That one looks interesting.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

It may be another difficult one for you to find, Nate, if you liked the look of it.

[Bryn]

Terri wrote: "It may be another difficult one for you to find, Nate, if you liked the look of it."

Seems quite available - Amazon and Book Depository - with the nice cover. I've read half of it today. Recced.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I am quietly pleased that you are into it. (Or maybe not so quietly now). Having been into it myself, that is always a thrill to see someone enjoy a book I recced them. :-)

[Nate]

I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

[Chris]

I got a Kindle for Christmas, I'm currently using it to read Bryn Hammond's Amgalant One: The Old Ideal and so far finding it very good. She has managed to present it from the Mongol perspective and actually make you feel like you are getting an insight into how they may have actually thought, rather than the sort of cardboard cut-out hyper-violent killers that they are often portrayed as in historical fiction.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Chris F wrote: "sort of cardboard cut-out hyper-violent killers that they are often portrayed as in historical fiction.
..."

This is good to hear, and I would expect no less from Ms Hammond.

[Simona]

Chris F wrote: "I got a Kindle for Christmas, I'm currently using it to read Bryn Hammond's Amgalant One: The Old Ideal and so far finding it very good. She has managed to present it from the Mongol perspective an..."

And do you like your Kindle? Personally, I'm addicted to it, even if mine is an older and larger model.
I think that the "buy-with-one-click" feature is one of the most dangerous things ever known in the history of men. (I want this one! Here, now I have it!...oops!)

[Carol]

Like you Simona, I have become a Kindle addict, then suddenly I see I have 4 or 5 books downloaded and I pull myself back to reality and take my hand off the "buy now" button. what gets me even more is when I see a book that is soon to be released, and I buy it and then it miraculously appears on the Kindle several weeks/months later.

[Simona]

Yes, and in your heart you know that you already own it...yes, I know that one.

[Chris]

I'm finding the Kindle fine, but I can't see it challenging my love of paper books any time soon. Also when I read the next one in the Amgalant series, which I'm sure I will do at some stage, I'll go for the paperback version of it as having easy access to the glossary at the back would be helpful with a book that makes you think. I'll save the Kindle for easy reads that don't get you think as much as this very interesting book is doing.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Marina wrote: "Finished SPQR I: The King's Gambit. It was awesome!
On to The Ides Of March."

Good to know, Marina. :-)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

While I very rarely download ebooks to my Tablet, I do understand the burden of 'buy it now'. I download digital magazines from Zinio to my tablet and it is so easy to buy another subscription based purely on mood...and then a couple weeks later I get over the mood and wonder why I bought yet another 6 months subscription to a magazine I have no interest in.

[Monica]

One of my favorite things about the Kindle is the instant download of "Sample" book sections to get a good feel for the story before buying the book. I have at least a dozen to read through at any time...many from the list of suggestions in the posts from this wonderful group (thank you!). I agree with Chris, Kindle won't totally take the place of the paper books any time soon for me either. I find it is harder on my eyes, and "thumbing" through the book on Kindle is still awkward for me, but ebooks do have their place.

[Bryn]

Mine's become a sampling tool. I recently hit the figure of 300 samples. My Kindle's a clutter like my house.

I'm too scared to buy direct from my Kindle and only do that from my computer, where I can better see what I'm doing and what I'm spending.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Monica wrote: " many from the list of suggestions in the posts from this wonderful group (thank you!). ..."

You are very welcome. :-)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

After seeing you guys talking samples the other day I actually decided to try it. Usually if I am on my Laptop, I use the amazon 'look inside' to check out how a book reads, but for some reason my Tablet has trouble with that feature and won't let me turn any pages.
So I have tried the sample download I will use that if I am on my tablet, and just use 'look inside' on my laptop.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I am stuck in limbo not wanting to start a new book until Jan 1. (Because I don't want to put a book aside to start our group reads).
The catch is....neither group read book is in my possession yet. One is still in transit from the UK and one I am waiting in line for from the library.
If neither are here by Jan 1, I will start

Traitor's Blood
This is the book that was in the Medieval or Later poll last ,month and lost to

[Monica]

Terri wrote: "So I have tried the sample download I will use that if I am on my tablet, and just use 'look inside' on my laptop."

Did you know about the Amazon/Kindle App that allows you to also download a readable "Sample" directly onto your laptop/PC? I use that as well sometimes...here's the link:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html...

[Monica]

Bryn wrote: "Mine's become a sampling tool. I recently hit the figure of 300 samples."

I thought I read on the Forums that the older Kindles allowed a sorting feature so you could put books into labelled folders, etc. The new version doesn't have this feature. Mine allows sort by Author/Title/Recent, and I believe there is a Favorites shelf. It sounds like this would be a great software update for them to offer. If anyone knows of a better sorting method available on the new Kindles (Fire/HD), please shout out...thanks!

The lack of sorting is a big negative for me. Scrolling through books to find something is time-consuming as the titles in the library continue to increase.

[Anne]

Finally started "Agincourt" last night. Since I had finished another book before it, I only got about 50 pages read.

[Bryn]

Monica wrote: "Bryn wrote: "I thought I read on the Forums that the older Kindles allowed a sorting feature so you could put books into labelled folders, etc. The new version doesn't have this feature...."

That's a definite negative. Yes, I can sort into 'collections'. Even then I find hard to stay tidy. Without that... impossible!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Monica wrote: "Terri wrote: "So I have tried the sample download I will use that if I am on my tablet, and just use 'look inside' on my laptop."

Did you know about the Amazon/Kindle App that allows you to also d..."

Thanks Monica of thinking of me...but I must admit, I prefer just to 'look inside' as opposed to downloading a sample. When I see a book i may be interested in, I will go to Amazon, find the book, click look inside, read some of the beginning and some random pages, then close out of Amazon. All mice and tidy, no need to go elsewhere and delete samples etc...:-)
But since my tablet has trouble with the pop up 'look inside' box on Amazon, I certainly will be using the download sample more often on it.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

At something of a loose end bookwise at the moment. Just really rereading some old favorites over te break.

[Tasha]

RE: kindle sorting features
I have both the basic kindle and the new fire. I am able to create folders in my old, basic one but not my new one. I read this was an 'issue' before I got it. I haven't been troubled by it yet but I can see how it might be an issue if you have lots of books on the carousel.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Margaret wrote: "At something of a loose end bookwise at the moment. Just really rereading some old favorites over te break."


Are you feeling disjointed because your library is closed for renos? :)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Terri wrote: "Margaret wrote: "At something of a loose end bookwise at the moment. Just really rereading some old favorites over te break."


Are you feeling disjointed because your library is closed for renos? :)"

A little. Also busy making a purchase list...got given a rather large amazon gift voucher for Christmas. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

oooo..you must have been a good girl this year!!

[happy]

Chris F wrote: "...I've got this one on a number of wish lists at different places Happy, so let me know what it is like. I,ve read two others of hers that I really liked. Oh and just in case anyone wonders, despite having the same surname she in no relation and I'd never heard of her before I found one of her books in my local library.

..."

Finally finished Broken Harbor(Christmas and all that ... )

I don't think it was her best, but still an engrossing(sp) read. One of French's signiture style traits is using a fairly minor character from a previous novel and "promoting" that character to the major character in her current novel. In this case the character that get the promotion is Scoarcher Kennedy - a by the book homicide detective. He is assigned a high visablity triple homicide in an area that he had summer vacationed as a child.

The novel soon expands from the standard police procedural/murder mystery and gets into the effects of the economic down turn of the late '00s on people. She also gets into major psycological problems of the major characters.

The middle gets a little slow and I think the ending leaves a bit to be desired, but all in all a very good read.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Thankyou for the thoughts on your latest read, happy.

[Antoine]

I've just finished "Millenium" by Tom Holland, which deals with the whole spread of European History 900 to 1100 AD, with an introductory section that covers the 800-900 AD period. Though the canvas is enormous Holland covers it entertainingly and often wittily. Though not fiction "Millennium" provides an essential background to much of the historical fiction set in the early medieval period. It is especially good on portraying the hopes, and more often fears, that dominated the minds, and influenced the decisions, of the main players. It deals with a Europe that seems impossibly remote, yet shows it in transition, in a critical period, to something remotely resembling the Europe - and Western World - which we know today.I recommend it very highly.

Millennium: The End Of The World And The Forging Of Christendom

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Hi Antoine,
I have read that one. I gave it 4 stars. Tom Holland is a very good non fiction writer.
My 'small' review.. http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

[Bryn]

Finished The Crusader. The first thing I do in 2013 is write a review. :) Except this site doesn't work in Australian time and attributes the book to December.

Four stars. It's not high adventure so much as about the stupidity of war - most stupid when in the name of religion. Hard-hitting sort of book where you can't expect happy endings.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

It is a quiet achiever that book. A lot going for it and I feel it should not be forgotten. So many HF books focusing on high adventure, over described violence and obnoxious, low quality dialogue, the gentler reads need to not get lost under these current fashions for guts and gore sandal and swords type books.
Glad you liked it, Bryn.

[Tim]

Just finished Rogue Warrior of the SAS: The Blair Mayne Legend. Historical fact, not fiction but a "good read" none the less.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

That sounds interesting, Tim. I had not heard of him.

[Marilee]

I have 3 books going... something that often happens. At least each is quite different from the others.
I'm still reading Agincourt [on my Kindle], but only in snatches. It's been a bit too hectic over the holidays to actually sit down and read for an hour or more at a time.

But I also have two quite different audio books going. One is in the form of CD's from the library, for listening in the car, a "memoir" of a chef that made the best seller lists this past year, Blood, Bones and Butter which is perfect to listen to while driving on errands and such, as it's a series of vignettes and reminiscences.

The second audio book is on my tiny iPod Nano, which I stick in a pocket when I'm out walking or at the gym. It's The Expats, , a modern novel about a former female CIA operative who retired to live abroad in Europe with her family. I used to live in France, so many of the places in the book are familiar to me. There's suspense also, so it's a good listen.

Do you all have more than one book going at a time? My mother used to think I was going to get confused and simply didn't understand how I could divide up my reading time. But I explained that I had to have more than one going to suit moods and circumstances. I don't confuse them because each is so different.

I must finish up Agincourt as I'd like to get started with our new book, Eaters of the Dead which I got from the library. So many books.. so little time.

[Tim]

Terri wrote: "That sounds interesting, Tim. I had not heard of him."

He was a bit of a local legend at a rugby club I used to play for (he was a former player there) and pretty much the first commander of the SAS, leading the regiment while David Stirling spent most of the war in a prison camp.

[Anne]

I'm glad someone else is still reading "Agincourt." I got a late start.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Marilee wrote: "I have 3 books going... something that often happens. At least each is quite different from the others.
I'm still reading Agincourt [on my Kindle], but only in snatches. It's been a bit too hectic..."

Hi Marilee,
Oh good, Anne has some company on Azincourt. Please feel free to continue posting your thoughts on the book in the group read thread. The thread never closes shop. It is open forever and ever. :-)

I rarely have more than one book on the go. I sometimes put one aside. Pause it until another time while I move onto something else, but I don't juggle. I find that if I start another book while reading something else, then I lose interest in one and never go back to it.
I do however quite often have a 'coffee table' type book on the go at the same time as a fiction. As they are more for flicking through when I don't feel like reading.

[Bobby]

Am re-reading Eaters of the Dead and Gone Girl to start the new year. Got home today and don't leave again for a while. So happy *dances across the floor, rather clumsily*

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Welcome home, Bobby. At last!

[Darcy]

You'd think I would have noticed this thread long before it hit 28 pages...
I'm nearly finished Killing for the Company.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I am finished one group read,The King's Spy and while I wait for the other group read, Eaters of the Dead, to come in the mail I will start on Traitor's Blood.
Some may recognise Traitor's Blood as the book that was up against The King's Spy in the Medieval Poll last month.
I am not sure what to expect. I hate it when books claim to be comparable to Bernard Cornwell's books (this one is being compared to the Sharpe series on the front cover).
Such an asinine marketing ploy that potentially sets the book up for failure. Thus far every book that I have read which has been compared to a Cornwell book in its marketing has been a flop in my opinion.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

D wrote: "You'd think I would have noticed this thread long before it hit 28 pages...
I'm nearly finished Killing for the Company."

What the...? How can this be?

[Betty]

Anne wrote: "I'm glad someone else is still reading "Agincourt." I got a late start."

Me too

[Bryn]

Marilee wrote: "Do you all have more than one book going at a time?"

I'm the same. I want to be right in the mood for a book, otherwise I'm afraid I'll waste them. It keeps them fresh for me. There's no confusion.

I understand the situational, too. I've been reading Les Mis only on the bus home for much of last year. Amazed I've got to 68% that way. That's an old fave or I might lose track.

[Bryn]

I stumbled on The Sea-God at Sunrise this morning and I've spent the day with it, although I had other books scheduled. A skilled writer. The great age of whaling. Cross-cultural story, American-Japanese.

[Myta]

Currently reading "The Lady and The Unicorn" by Tracy Chevalier. There's something about art-related historical fiction that captures my soul.

[Satrajit]

Its been a while since I touched John Grisham.

Finished 7 of his 35 in 15 days. Will try to finish the rest in 2-3 months. Then i need to finish another 4 books of Scott Marianni.

I stumbled on one of the books last year and believe me its awesome. He is a very skilled writer. Requesting you to pick any one of his art and go through once. I think you won't be dissapointed