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[Andy]

i WAS really excited about my day out at the Library coming up...... scratch....itch....sniffle

[Mark]

Andy wrote: "i WAS really excited about my day out at the Library coming up...... scratch....itch....sniffle"

Mind them viruses. Andy.;)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

*sprays screen with antiseptic just in case*

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Jane wrote: "If your library's anything like the one I worked in, 'covered in mould' would have us discarding it. Coffee stains are ok with the public library as long as the book isn't falling apart--case in p..."

lol!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

*puts on white mask*

[[deleted user]]

You guys are making me all paranoid now. I'm reading Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. It's one of those toxic library books.:)

[C.P.]

Liza wrote: "happy wrote: "Liza,

I hope you enjoy it. Lots of interesting factiods and I think a very good introduction to the society of Mediveal England"
Thanks, happy, I'm sure I will! My current WIP is se..."

Very much so, Liza. England does have some unique features (that marriage pattern, for example), but none that show up in this book.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Don't be scared people. Just wipe down with antibacterial when you get them home and you'll be detoxed. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I am reading Sons of Thunder

[Jane]

Just started A High Wind in Jamaica

[Michal]

Terri wrote: "I am reading Sons of Thunder"

Please please, write a review afterwards! I have to say that I really liked the first book (I gave 5 stars) but then the ending suggested that the next book plot will be somehow straightforward or something (view spoiler)[ he has his woman with him etc. (hide spoiler)]. Perhaps I am just rationalizing it, but somehow after the initial enthusiasm I never got myself to actually follow up with the sequels (which basically never happens to me when I like the first book). Would like some impulse to either read it or to support my rationalization and continue procrastinating :). Thanks!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Mate..Sons of Thunder rocks!!!! That is all I will give away now. (150 pages in) :)

[Lisa]

Sorry there just isn't enough antiseptic wash to make me do it, hahahaha.

[Darcy]

Terri wrote: "Mate..Sons of Thunder rocks!!!! That is all I will give away now. (150 pages in) :)"

I agree. I liked this book far more than the first.

[Michal]

Ok, putting it on a higher priority stack :)

[Linda]

Comrade Fox: Low-living in Revolutionary Russia by Stewart Hennessey. I debated whether or not to even start this book. It would have been my loss had I not started the read. I am halfway through and am delighted with this author. Beware that he is not easy on the Russians. The book is set in 1917 while WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution were either in progress or gearing up to go.

[Paula]

Just thought i'd post my review of The Handfasted Wife
if thats ok

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

[Paula]

Linda wrote: "Comrade Fox: Low-living in Revolutionary Russia by Stewart Hennessey. I debated whether or not to even start this book. It would have been my loss had I not started the read. I am halfway throug..."

sounds great. I love anything WW1 but havent had the chance to read much on it yet

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Darcy wrote: "Terri wrote: "Mate..Sons of Thunder rocks!!!! That is all I will give away now. (150 pages in) :)"

I agree. I liked this book far more than the first."

Me too. Definitely. Written so differently too. More in the style of Robert Low. Grittier and 'slap you in the face' real.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Paula wrote: "Just thought i'd post my review of The Handfasted Wife
if thats ok

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

Absolutely. :)

[Bryn]

I'm reading Morgan Llewelyn The Horse Goddess that is Celts meets Scythians. Not sure yet whether it's fantasy-free. It's also a romance suspect. :) Until proven otherwise. 80 pages have flown past, anyhow.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Nothing worse than a romance suspect.

You worry that you are just going to get into the book and then the story drops plot and the characters lose their depth so that soppy crooning, hair stroking and beating hearts can take over. ;)

[C.P.]

I think I read The Horse Goddess at one time. Those characters sound quite familiar. It was okay, I thought. Not a Harlequin-type romance; more a The Clan of the Cave Bear romance. But yes, that was definitely a factor.

[Bryn]

At least he's a Scythian.
;}

[C.P.]

I finished The Pet Hawk of the House of Abbas. I can't say I really enjoyed it, although I wanted to. The translation is wonderfully fluid, the setting is interesting and unusual, the history seems sound. It's neither romance nor historical fantasy, and I can imagine that many members of this group will love it. But for me it has too many information dumps and too many explanations that seemed to come out of thin air. I also found the main character rather flat, despite the author's obvious attempts to round him out.

Fully realized scenes (that didn't include long political explanations) would draw me into the story. There just weren't enough of them to make it a gripping read.

Word to Bryn: this book is mostly Arabs and Persians, with a few Sogdians. Looks like the Turks will show up big-time in book 2. I have the title on my computer; I can look it up tomorrow.

[C.P.]

Bryn wrote: "At least he's a Scythian.
;}"

Yes, she has good taste, at least. ;-)

[Jane]

Reimagining of the Iphigenia in Aulis myth before the Trojan War: The Songs of the Kings: A Novel. Just started this evening.

[Mark]

Started and nearly done. Its a good read (pun intended).

:)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Jane wrote: "Reimagining of the Iphigenia in Aulis myth before the Trojan War: The Songs of the Kings: A Novel. Just started this evening."

Oooh, looks interesting. My library has it so have reserved it.

[Liza]

C.P. wrote: "Liza wrote: "happy wrote: "Liza,

I hope you enjoy it. Lots of interesting factiods and I think a very good introduction to the society of Mediveal England"
Thanks, happy, I'm sure I will! My curr..."
Thanks, C.P., good to know!

[Mark]

enjoyed the last one so much jumped into the next book.

[C.P.]

Book 2 of the Silk Road trilogy, for those interested (you know who you are), is The Pet Foal of the House of Maniakh. It's due out this time next year—I think. The publisher's PDF has mixed up the order.

[Alicja]

I am about to start Total War Rome: Destroy Carthage, love the video games so we'll see how the book timed to the release with Rome II will hold up.

[Linda]

Just finished--shoot! This layout has been changed and I cannot find the book/author gold letters.

[[deleted user]]

Linda wrote: "Just finished--shoot! This layout has been changed and I cannot find the book/author gold letters."

Is this it, Linda. Comrade Fox: Low-living in Revolutionary Russia?

[Linda]

Yes, Derek! That is it. How did you do that?

[[deleted user]]

I typed Comrade Fox into the add book/author & pressed enter. I've had problems with it before though, so you might be experiencing the same. Good review, by the way.:)

[Bryn]

I didn't last with The Horse Goddess. I can't talk about its Celtic content but it was too cavalier with Scythian culture for me.

I'm going to read Kuraj. It looks fascinating. Central Asian nomads escaped from Stalinism, in postwar Germany. With flashbacks to Genghis Khan I believe.

[Tim]

Bryn wrote: "I didn't last with The Horse Goddess. I can't talk about its Celtic content but it was too cavalier with Scythian culture for me.

I'm going to read Kuraj. It looks fascinating. Central Asian nomad..."

I find Morgan Llywelyn's celtic (or more particularly her irish) writings very much belong in what James Joyce described as "that great green mist from which no line of true beauty has ever emerged".

[Jane]

Have been trying to read Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes online. Am up to Book II. 14th century Rome -- Guelphs/Ghibellines.

[C.P.]

Working on Empress, although I have my doubts. Relieving that one with The Curse of the Pharaohs, which is as good as ever, with one exception: I thought this was the first book when we get Ramses throughout. But alas, it is the last book in which we do not.

EDIT: But Bastet just showed up. Yay!

[Bryn]

On 'Empress', I wish it undid the negative image of her, but I gathered from reviews it doesn't?

[C.P.]

It claims to. Maybe it will. My beef with it so far is psychological/historical verisimilitude (plus that starting in the womb thing, which is way over the top). (view spoiler)[Lesbianism as a norm in a society of 10,000 women, most of whom will never see the emperor, the only man in their world—sure, makes sense. A physically abusive second wife who rapes and beats less powerful potential concubines—well, if you must. But a beaten, abused concubine who strangles the second wife almost to death and escapes unscathed, even gains an entrée into the court instead of being dispatched in a box? In 7th-century China? Is the author kidding me? (hide spoiler)] Hence my doubts.

Maybe it will improve, in which case I will shrug off the spoiler incident and move on. Otherwise, this book is toast, as far as I'm concerned.

[Bryn]

C.P.'s spoiler: Sounds sensational at any rate.

[C.P.]

Yes, in an everything but the kitchen sink sense, for sure. ;-)

The future empress likes horses and archery, if that helps.

[Mark]

very good.

[Paul]

Prue Batten is a marvel...

[Jane]

The online Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribune gives me a headache literally, after awhile, so it'll take awhile to read through. No, book is good, but staring at the screen is not!

I've started Burial Rites. It's beautifully written but depressing.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Still reading
had two busy days and had to ut it up. Started it again this morning.

[Jane]

I'll probably be reading Rienzi forever. Between the old-fashioned language and the computer screen, I can last only so long.