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[Monica]

Mark wrote: i am glad you are liking them, i have only read the first 2."

Don't give up on this series. Finished the 4th book:Murder for Christ's Mass By far the best of the lot. The writing is more polished, the characters and main storyline deeper, and sub-storylines of human compassion. This series of 6 books was spread over 4 libraries, so I'm hoping the 5th will arrive tomorrow:Shroud of Dishonour, and the 6th will show up next week. Quick reads, 250-300 paperback pages each, a nice, light change.

[Bryn]

@Tim on Caesar. From that purveyor of gossip Suetonius: "the Elder Curio referred to him in a speech as 'Every woman's man and every man's woman.'"

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Tim wrote: "@Terri: Please consider publishing your work. IMHO there isn't enough HF set in 11th century England, a fascinating, very violent time. the possibilities for adventure are enormous. I've read that you should write the sort of book you want to read and given what we know about your HF tastes if you do that its bound to be a great read. ..."


You don't sound like a hippy.

Thanks for the lovely compliment. :)
I agree. 11th century was a turbulent time. Britain changed forever in the period. And dramatically.

[Laurentiu]

My reading of Pride of Carthage advances really slow since I tend to google a lot of names and places. I'm losing more hours searching than reading.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

It will only get worse.
There are sections where the book gets slow, so you will get even more stuck with your wheels turning. :)

[Dawn]

I just can't settle on a book today, I started with Niccolo Rising and then Absolution by Murder and then A Plague of Poison and now I'm starting The Medici

Good thing I have 4 more books on the stack, I might start them all today. :)

[John]

Dawn wrote: "I just can't settle on a book today, I started with Niccolo Rising and then Absolution by Murder and then [bookcover:A Plag..."

l feel your pain mate, trying to choose between several books myself

[Mark]

I do like this series.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I am on a bit of a reading hiatus.
I finished my last book a couple days ago and I am waiting for our group read The Coffee Trader to come into the library for a March 1 start.

I should be reading something though....I feel naked with no book to curl up with. Especially since it is raining a lot and flooding here I love reading when it's raining. :D

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I just talked myself into checking out my bookcases to find something to read.
I am starting this.

Eight Lives Down: The Story of a Counterterrorist Bomb-Disposal Operator's Tour in Iraq

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Very pleased to hear it, Derek. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

You are welcome. :)

[Jane]

Now reading

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I am reading The Counterfeit Guest. It is book two in a series. I have not read book 1.
It is a book I bought out of a bookstore bargain bin about 3 years ago and I keep avoiding it.
I am making myself read it.

Not bad so far. Very Pride and Prejudice.

[Jane]

I finished The Falcon of Palermo I liked it but it was nothing special. I also finished which I really enjoyed!

[Nate]

I'm a few hundred pages into When Christ and His Saints Slept. Great stuff so far, but it's disturbing how much the commoners got used as destructible resources in the nobles' wars. Also in the middle of Sharpe's Fortress, which is typically fun Sharpe stuff.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Nate wrote: "it's disturbing how much the commoners got used as destructible resources in the nobles' wars..."

Sadly, it is a pattern throughout history. And still happens.

[Jane]

Yes, it does. There's that awful modern euphemism: collateral damage...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Speaking of collateral damage...I have finished and have started
Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program

[Lia]

I reading and to complement the group reads.
Starting , couple of chapters into , and every now and then some paragraph of

[Monica]

I'm waiting for to arrive at my library later this week.

While I wait, I'm clearing off some short stories from Kindle. This one is first up:

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Lia wrote: "I reading and ..."

Some great choices there, Lia. I especailly like the ones you chose to compliment the group read.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Monica wrote: "I'm waiting for to arrive at my library later this week.
..."

I am going to try to get to Imperium this month. It was in my reading schedule, but because I am still waiting for The Coffee Trader to come into the library it has pushed my schedule back.

[Chris]

Monica and Terri hope you both enjoy Imperium as much as I did. The others in the series are great too.

[happy]

Chris F wrote: "Monica and Terri hope you both enjoy Imperium as much as I did. The others in the series are great too."

Ditto - I really like Harris' Roman Books

[Monica]

Chris & Happy, good to know. I'm looking forward to Imperium.

[Darcy]

I got this too, but I probably won't get to until the summer. I am glad to hear many people enjoy it.

[Lia]

Thank you Terri.
OMG! The "am" is missing in my opening sentence [blush]. The grammar police will out to get me now.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

haha. I tell you Lia, there probably isn't a post i don't edit after I have posted it, because my typos are everywhere. Some I just think 'ah stuff it' and I leave them. :)

[Monica]

Has anyone read this series by Kathryn Swinbrooke? I was wondering how the writing compares to Maureen Ash, author of the Templar Knight mysteries.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Cool covers on that series.

[Mark]

Monica wrote: "Has anyone read this series by Kathryn Swinbrooke? I was wondering how the writing compares to Maureen Ash, author of the Templar Knight mysteries.

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It's in case you didn't know. Have you read any of his other stuff.

His Hugh corbett are very good. Like the Maureen ash books.

[Monica]

Mark wrote: "Monica wrote: "Has anyone read this series by Kathryn Swinbrooke?

Whoa...had no idea that C.L. Grace was a pen name for the dude in the picture! Thanks, Mark! I have the first of the Swinbrooke series on order from the library. I'll look for the Hugh Corbett books as well.

[Mark]

Recommend the it's fantasy ish but a very good read.

[Monica]

Mark wrote: "Recommend the it's fantasy ish but a very good read."

Thanks, Mark. I just checked online and my library system does not have it. Not willing to pay $5 for ILL, but I will ask the librarian if they intend to purchase a copy.

[Jane]

I'm about 40% through It's very good so far and an easy read. Title tells what the book is about---post Roman departure from Britain and beginning of Saxon invasions...

[Monica]

Jane wrote: It's very good so far..."

That's good to know, Jane. Some of the early reviews for that book have been unfavorable. I liked Morgan Llywelyn's writing in Lion of Ireland

[Jane]

Hmmmm, I'll have to try that one. I'm surprised, with Ms. Llywelyn's surname, she didn't write mostly Welsh hf, rather than chiefly Irish. So far the book kind of reminds me of Rosemary Sutcliff's except it involves two cousins instead of brother and sister, during the same time period.

[Linda]

Blood Money by Laura Rizio. Taking a little break from hf. My next will be one of the hf books that is free and came to me via Monica! Thank you, again, Monica.

[Carol]

All The books I have read by Paul Doherty in whatever nom de plume he utilizes are entertaining and well worth reading. I recently read his The Straw Men and Midnight Man which were continuations in a series involving a monk sleuth. They are good adventures and informative about the time of John of Gaunt.

[Monica]

Carol wrote: "All The books I have read by Paul Doherty in whatever nom de plume he utilizes are entertaining and well worth reading. I recently read his The Straw Men and Midnight Man which were continuations ..."

Thanks for that feedback, Carol!

[happy]

Finished the WW II book I was reading so I am starting Ruth Downie's

[Dawn]

I finished War and Peace and The Heretic Queen
I'm still reading Niccolo Rising and Hannibal: Enemy of Rome
And I just started Gulag and Peril at End House

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Looking forward to seeing what you think of Rome by Manda Scott, Marina.
The subject matter and scenery is very close to home for you. :)

[Laurentiu]

I'm at the third chapter in Pride of Carthage, I've been reading less due to a busy week. Today I've got a free day and I hope to progress at least 200 pages.

So far, the only thing that bothers me are sudden changes of the narrative, one moment I'm with Hannibal the other with someone else. This books seems to keep true to most of the things in the period, with minor changes. Also the writer makes good description, very detailed.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

That was a problem I had with the book too, Laurentiu.
The narrative changes. I think mainly it botheerd me because I wasn't as interested in the Roman narratives. I was reading the book for the Carthaginian perspective.

[Jane]

Monica wrote: "Jane wrote: It's very good so far..."

That's good to know, Jane. Some of the early reviews for that book have been unfavorable. I liked Morgan Llywelyn's writing in Lion of Ireland"

I have finished it and enjoyed it. There were really no slam-bang battles. It was basically how the two cousins, opposites in personality, coped with the post Roman/Saxon influx situations facing them. I took the cousins as microcosms of what might have actually been done to face the new civilization...

[Jane]

happy wrote: "Finished the WW II book I was reading so I am starting Ruth Downie's
"

I loved this book; I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I've perused and about the amazing Vindolanda Tablets, discovered and deciphered by archaeologists in north England at the ruins of the Roman fort of Vindolanda. I feel Downie used some of these letters as a springboard for her novel, adding her own brand of storytelling and humor.

[Linda]

Not for Glory by J.R. Tomlin. I re-started reading today. I love these books about Scotland and Jamie Douglas, but this last book of the series is a little harder to get into.

[happy]

Finsished Semper Fidelis - Fun quick read, decent mystery. I'll post a more complete review later in the proper thread :)