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[Bryn]

Terri wrote: "Oh, I meant to say 'in my gut'. I typoed and said 'in my but'. Rest assured.... I felt in my gut that you would love the book, not in my butt. :]"

I'm glad you didn't correct that. Either works. Uncannily right you were, since I do 'connect with the style' in total hook-up, so that he doesn't put a foot wrong, for me, and I can float along with him forever. Great to find books like that...

@Chris I purchased that, so await your thoughts. Set at the event of our next loser's read 'The Religion'.

[Liza]

I have just put down, unfinished The First Vial as I found it a bit of a clichéd romance, and have now started Watermark: A Novel of the Middle Ages, which has started off very good.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Liza wrote: "I have just put down, unfinished The First Vial as I found it a bit of a clichéd romance, and have now started Watermark: A Novel of the Middle Ages, which has started off very good."

Have not heard of Watermark. Let us know what you think when you finish, Liza.

[Liza]

Terri wrote: "Liza wrote: "I have just put down, unfinished The First Vial as I found it a bit of a clichéd romance, and have now started Watermark: A Novel of the Middle Ages, which has started off very good."
..."

Will do, Terri, it's a debut novel.

[Linda]

The Sultan's Harem by Colin Falconer. Actually, the book I am reading is simply HAREM. I think it is the same book. What would one expect from a book by that name? Abortion, male and female castration, murder and more. The book is set in the days of the Ottoman Empire. I am have come across Sullieman the Great, again. So far, it is a good book and getting better by the minute. The author doesn't daudle(sp), and I like the brisk pace.

[Reeda]

I just got done reading the 2nd book in Andrew Levkoff's Bow of Heaven trilogy . It was excellent! I highly recommend this and his first one .

[Bobby]

Just started Midwyf: Liza This is a different type of read for me.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Reeda wrote: "I just got done reading the 2nd book in Andrew Levkoff's Bow of Heaven trilogy . It was excellent! I highly recommend this and his first one [bookcover:The ..."

Hi Reeda,
I have often admired the cover of that first book. Interesting to see the design of the second.

[Chris]

Chris F wrote: "Just about to start

Clash of Empires: The Great Siege, by William Napier. Looks like a good one."

Up to page 111 and really enjoying it. To begin with I wasn't sure if I was going to like it, as some of the Turkish characters seemed a bit simplistic. However, two of the Knights of St John and two English teenagers who join them on the trip back to Malta are proving interesting. I would have described them as fun but that is probably not the right choice for such traumatic events. So far this one looks like it is going to stay in the 'ripping yearn' category rather than 'brutal reality', but I'm not up to the actual siege yet.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Is there a lot of swearing in it, Chris? As there was in Attila.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I have finished - 3 stars

I have started - loving it

[Chris]

Terri wrote: "Is there a lot of swearing in it, Chris? As there was in Attila."

Seems to be very little if any, at this stage.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Thanks Chris. Good to know.

[Bryn]

The Marlowe Papers, as I'd better mention here, because D introduced me -- the novel in verse about Christopher Marlowe/Shakespeare. For verse it's a quick read. There's less on a page, for a start, than prose, and I'm at 100 pages in short order.

I like but mildly so far.

[Liza]

Bobby wrote: "Just started Midwyf: Liza This is a different type of read for me."

Ooh, this looks right up my street, Bobby (and not just because I share her name!). Have just bought the Kindle edition, thanks for posting!

[Mark]

I am impressed with this so far.

[Monica]

Dawn, you've got me hooked on the Steven Saylor 'Sub Rosa' series. Finished the second one Arms of Nemesis and asked my library to get me the third in the series Catilina's Riddle.

None of these books are at my library so I have to wait for them to be shipped from other libraries. I waited, and waited...almost a week...and still it's not here. Then I saw that a library in a neighboring town had a copy, so I got in the car and went to get it...just couldn't wait any longer! There are not many author's books I would chase after, but these are very, very good. Thanks for suggesting this series.

[Dawn]

I am thrilled you love them so much. I had to get the first one through ILL and it took 3 months. I bought all the rest so I wouldn't have to wait so long and then I got sidetracked by library books.......go figure. :)

[Dawn]

I finished The Gone-Away World and it has a fantastic twist ending.
I started The Rook and even after one chapter I am pretty hooked. It's very mysterious and I want to know what's going on. I hope it lives up to the expectation.

[Jane]

Just got email notice from public library is in and on hold for me. I'm looking forward to reading it whether or not it is chosen.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I think it is a certainty, Jane. :-) There is no way it can be beaten in the poll now.

[Bryn]

After 'Pride of Carthage' I'm going to pick up the old 2ndhand I have of Ross Leckie Hannibal. It's only short. This may make 3 Hannibal novels in quick succession...

[Jane]

Apparently, is part of a series, others of which the library has. Depending on how well I like this one, I might read the others.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Three in the series I believe.

[Bobby]

I own The Beggar King Haven't read it so didn't realize it was a Trilogy.

[Bryn]

I'm dropping Ross Leckie Hannibal at p.38. It's been a shop of horrors, so grisly I can only laugh at it.

Scarcely fair to read it right after Pride of Carthage but even so.

[Dawn]

I finished Gulag by Anne Applebaum. Awesome book, though very depressing and disturbing.

Restarted The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern

[Anne]

Terri wrote: "Three in the series I believe.
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There is a 4th due out soon. I was able to pre-order it in the .99 cents sale of the others so i will have all four.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Anne wrote: "Terri wrote: "Three in the series I believe.
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There is a 4th due out soon. I was ab..."

Ooo..thanks for the heads up, Anne, I will find it and add it to our new release thread.

[Linda]

White Jade by Alex Lukeman.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Here is book 4 in that Hangman's Daughter series.
The Poisoned Pilgrim: A Hangman's Daughter Tale

[Bobby]

I better get reading. The series sounds pretty interesting.

[Darcy]

The good news is that none of them are more than 512 pages long.

[Bryn]

The Siege of Krishnapur, British India 1857, the Sepoy uprising. Not what I expected. It's amusing, about a bunch of silly Victorians. I hope it's more than just amusing, I think it's meant to be.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Not hard to make Victorians look silly. It is something they excelled at.

[Bryn]

Truest!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Hehe. :-)

[Bryn]

If that one fails me, Guy Gavriel Kay just arrived. It has, to my eyes, the most scrumptious cover:

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I do always admire that cover.

[Nate]

I still need to read Tigana, which would be my first Kay. I'm using the hardcover edition as a mouse pad :( both cover and content of that one look good!

[Bryn]

A mouse pad? Is that to remind you to read it or you chose your prettiest hardcover?

[Nate]

No, it seemed like the most suitable one for mouse usage, haha. It does look very nice, though:

http://imgur.com/TzorhTV

[Bryn]

Ooh classy mouse pad. Thanks for that image of a corner of your life. My lappy sits on a pile of books on my desk that includes

-- how's that?

[Nate]

Haha I love that, that book looks awesome. I'm glad other people have books that moonlight as mouse pads.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Nate wrote: "No, it seemed like the most suitable one for mouse usage, haha. It does look very nice, though:

http://imgur.com/TzorhTV"

Lol. Which is the way in my place too. I use a tablet mostly and don't use a mouse (use the touchoad) on my laptop) but I used to have a hardcover mouse pad when I used a desktop.

That is a wildly different Tigana cover to the one Bryn has. I like the newness of Bryn's cover, but I dig the retro look of Nate's.

[Chris]

Bryn wrote: "Ooh classy mouse pad. Thanks for that image of a corner of your life. My lappy sits on a pile of books on my desk that includes
[bookcover:Arms and Armor from Iran: The Bronze Age to the End of th..."

Looks like an awesome book Bryn, but at over $260 NZ at TBD it's a bit out of my price range.

[Bryn]

Chris F wrote: "Looks like an awesome book Bryn, but at over $260 NZ at TBD it's a bit out of my price range."

You don't need to eat next month, or your family either.

[Chris]

Bryn wrote: "Chris F wrote: "Looks like an awesome book Bryn, but at over $260 NZ at TBD it's a bit out of my price range."

You don't need to eat next month, or your family either."

Good point but I don't think my two teenagers would go along with it.

[happy]

But, but, but, I've got college Tution to pay (for two kids):D

[Bryn]

Have books, not kids. It's saved me expenses. :D