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[Lisa]

Really Terri!!! No I mean Really!!!! Lol, bad bad girl.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I am enjoying it too...:)
Quite a LOT actually!!

[Liza]

I just finished The Fall of the Empire by Zoe Saadia, and loved it! My review will follow soon.

[Bryn]

The Corpse Reader forensics in early 13thC China, but plot is unrealistic. I'll read on for the gruesome period detail.

[Paula]

Marina wrote: "Paula wrote: " This is not an historical novel - its alternative, fast paced and exciting"

This looks great!
I'll read (almost) anything (even pseudo-) Roman :)"
It is really good. Kind of like the style of Da vinci Code though much better written!

[Paula]

Liza wrote: "I just finished The Fall of the Empire by Zoe Saadia, and loved it! My review will follow soon."

this looks awesome i love the mystique of the south American native culture

[Jane]

Found this at the Goodwill Store: will be reading it next, Druids

[Paula]

Has anyone read this book? I was recommended this on FB.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Paula wrote: "

Has anyone read this book? I was recommended this on FB."

Not me. never heard of it.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Jane wrote: "Found this at the Goodwill Store: will be reading it next, Druids"

I really enjoyed that one when I read it years ago.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I'm currently reading The Iron Wyrm Affair

[Mark]

Margaret wrote: "I'm currently reading The Iron Wyrm Affair"

Really looking forward to hearing your opinion on it.

[Mark]

time to see what I have been missing out on.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Margaret wrote: "I'm currently reading The Iron Wyrm Affair"

I've only just started it, but I am enjoying it very much. Emma Bannon reminds me of Emma Peel from the old TV show "The Avengers".

[Mark]

She is great fun.

[Bryn]

I'm about to open this month's poll loser Men of Bronze.

[Paula]

Bryn wrote: "I'm about to open this month's poll loser Men of Bronze."

Poll loser?

[Bryn]

Paula wrote: "Poll loser?"

It was in our group read poll against Pride of Carthage. It lost, but we have a 'Reading the poll losers instead?' thread where I'll post impressions.

[happy]

Finished the - excellent read - 4+ stars. Narrative history - while it reads like a novel, every event happened and every character existed. Eckert has recreated conversations, so I guess that it makes it a novel.

Warning - very grusome and explicit descriptions of what Indians did to white captives - makes the axiom "Save the last bullet for yourself" understandable. Also, some of the view points are definately not politially correct
I'll post a more complete review later.

I am currently reading


This is non fiction, but it might be of interest to some here.

[[deleted user]]

happy...have you read A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh? I've been thinking about reading that one, but it's so long, it's intimidating for a biography.

[happy]

Derek wrote: "happy...have you read A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh? I've been thinking about reading that one, but it's so long, it's intimidating for a biography."

Derek

A long time ago (35 yrs or so), IIRC it is excellent, I'll have to reread it - on the TBR list it goes.

This time through, I liked Eckerts style better than way back then.

[Paula]

happy wrote: "Finished the - excellent read - 4+ stars. Narrative history - while it reads like a novel, every event happened and every character existed. Eckert has recreate..."

I have this on my want to read list although i havent bought it yet. Please let me know what its like, the current reviews are not bad but they are not great either.

[Linda]

Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell. It appears to be a pre-proof copy but is still a good read.

[Jane]

Started I Heard the Owl Call My Name--an Anglican priest who is ill and has only two more years to live, is sent to a parish among an indigenous tribe in British Columbia.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Linda wrote: "Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell. It appears to be a pre-proof copy but is still a good read."

Glad you are liking this one, Linda. I quite enjoyed it.

[Scott]

Some of you may know that recently The Fall of Arthur was released, which is Professor Tolkien's unfinished Anglo-Saxon style verse poem about the legend of the "Once and Future King." I am curious what anyone else here thinks because as much as I am eager to dive into this I am a little hesitant since so much of it is just Christopher Tolkien's notes. Although the introduction is well-written and informative, I have to wonder about the auspices of releasing a not even half-finished poem. I still intend to read it through, though.

[Vanessa Eden]

I am reading the Outlander Series.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Currently reading the second Mark Hodder Burton & Swinburne novel The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man

[Andy]

That looks a good series Margaret, have the first book in the series to read at some point soon.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Andy, the first book is brilliant. And so is the second one.

[Jane]

Started The Crown. I think the Tudors have been done to death, but this is from a different angle: dissolution of the Catholic monasteries and a postulant nun heroine in Henry VIII's time. Enjoying so far.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Mmm. I'll keep an eye on that, Jane.

[Jane]

I hope it keeps up being so good! The writing is excellent, also. I got it from a recommendation from someone in A&M. The library had it, with positive reviews from Booklist and Library Journal . Nowadays libraries are so strapped for money that besides bestsellers [most of 'em, ugh]which it's public libraries' mission to buy, for other stuff they go on good reviews from library magazines, like the two I mentioned.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

The library service I use tends to buy based on requests from members (apart from latest books from big name authors). Head librarian told me once that they would rather buy one book that they know at least one person wants than a dozen that will just sit on the shelves.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Margaret wrote: " Head librarian told me once that they would rather buy one book that they know at least one person wants than a dozen that will just sit on the shelves.
..."

That's a good outlook.

[Jane]

I hope they do check reviews though. I'm sure our Four County LS also considers suggestions.

[happy]

I've rarely had a problem with the my library buying books I've requested - unless there is a funding crunch. Even when they don't they will get what I want on an ILL.

[Andy]

I haven't used a library in years, thought they were a thing of the past tbh but there is one near me! Be a nice walk for me now im back on me feet :)

[Lisa]

Me either Andy. But that's because I don't want to play with books everyone else has, hahaha. It's an OCD, and I need therapy, I know. Why have you been laid up?? If it's not too personal!

[Andy]

Yes that DOES explain a lot :)

[Lisa]

I know I know. Derek thought it odd when I said I'd smelt the new Cornwall Saxon book too. Do we have a " your idiosyncrasies" thread?? Lol

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Lisa wrote: "Me either Andy. But that's because I don't want to play with books everyone else has, hahaha. It's an OCD, and I need therapy, I know. Why have you been laid up?? If it's not too personal!"

This is why I have to clean library books down with anti bacterial. I am not OCD about anything like I am with library books.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I think after I am finished The Name of the Rose I will get on and read
The Bleeding Land

[Mark]

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Mark wrote: ""

Still waiting for "Tricked" and "Trapped" from my library before I ask for that one.

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Lisa wrote: "I know I know. Derek thought it odd when I said I'd smelt the new Cornwall Saxon book too. Do we have a " your idiosyncrasies" thread?? Lol"

Odd in a good, funny way, Lisa.:)

[Jane]

Like 'new car smell'--'new book smell', eh? :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Love that new book smell. :)

[[deleted user]]

Finally reading book two of the Farseer Trilogy - Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb. Has taken me awhile because of all the others I haven't read yet. And just like the first book, I can not put this down.

[Julia]

I agree. There's nothing quite like it. I also love walking into a bookstore and breathing in all that book goodness.