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[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I'm currently on Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Strange, strange little book.

[C.P.]

Why, Margaret? That seems like an unusual choice.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

A very popular choice. So many people I know on GR have read that book. It gets around.

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Margaret wrote: "I'm currently on Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Strange, strange little book."

I'll admit it. I'm interested.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

@ C.P. I read in lots of different areas, and when I came upon this it looked interesting. When the author compared being dead to being on a cruise I was hooked. :)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Terri wrote: "A very popular choice. So many people I know on GR have read that book. It gets around."

I agree. When I marked it 'To Read' I discovered a lot of my GR friends had either read it or had it to read.

[Darcy]

I saw a tele show about this. A woman (possibly the author) went to different places that handle cadavers to decide how she wanted to be handled after death - to remove that burden from her family.
Interesting the number of options out there.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Darcy wrote: "I saw a tele show about this. A woman (possibly the author) went to different places that handle cadavers to decide how she wanted to be handled after death - to remove that burden from her family...."
There are. I'm up to a chapter about the Body Farm at the moment.

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Margaret wrote: "@ C.P. I read in lots of different areas, and when I came upon this it looked interesting. When the author compared being dead to being on a cruise I was hooked. :)"

If being dead is like being on a cruise, then there is a hell for sure.:)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Derek wrote: "Margaret wrote: "@ C.P. I read in lots of different areas, and when I came upon this it looked interesting. When the author compared being dead to being on a cruise I was hooked. :)"

If being de..."
LMAO Derek. I thought something similar.

[Jane]

Just started The Sea Runners, novelized version of a true story, in 1852, four Swedes, indentured to the Russian American Company in Russian America [Alaska] escape a life of hardship, final destination Astoria, Oregon Territory. I just finished Chapter One and after 6 months of planning, they make their escape from New Archangel [Sitka]. The book's well written and promises to be exciting.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Gosh that looks good, Jane. I am adding that one to the tbr.

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Jane wrote: "Just started The Sea Runners, novelized version of a true story, in 1852, four Swedes, indentured to the Russian American Company in Russian America [Alaska] esc..."

You beat me to it, Jane. Dang!

[Paul]

Love this series...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Did you post about it further back, Derek? If you did, I should have paid more attention and added it to the tbr. I like the sounds of it.

[Jane]

Derek wrote: "Jane wrote: "Just started The Sea Runners, novelized version of a true story, in 1852, four Swedes, indentured to the Russian American Company in Russian America..."

I think you'll enjoy it. I'm trying to fill in before the group read--one from library and one on order.

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Terri wrote: "Did you post about it further back, Derek? If you did, I should have paid more attention and added it to the tbr. I like the sounds of it."

No. I didn't post about it. Jane brought that book to my attention, by way of recommendation, a few weeks ago. Like you, I very much like the sound of it. I'm planning on reading it next, but I can't seem to find any reading time lately. Jane beat me to it gosh darn it! :)

[Harold]

"Set Fair for Roanoke" by David Beers Quinn is non-fiction but an important secondary source if you want to write historical fiction about English colonial settlement at Roanoke in the 1580s.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I'm not sure my stomach is up to finishing Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

I've come across some really stomach churning stuff. :p

[Mark]

Margaret wrote: "I'm not sure my stomach is up to finishing Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

I've come across some really stomach churning stuff. :p"

Lols,

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

This includes experiments using the genitals of male cadavers.

I am not sure my stomach is going to stand up to the rest of this book.

[Mark]

Margaret wrote: "This includes experiments using the genitals of male cadavers.

I am not sure my stomach is going to stand up to the rest of this book."

Not what I want to hear about just before I go to sleep, Margaret.;););)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Mark wrote: "Margaret wrote: "This includes experiments using the genitals of male cadavers.

I am not sure my stomach is going to stand up to the rest of this book."

Not what I want to hear about just before ..."

I was reading it before I went to sleep. NOT a smart move on my part!

[Mark]

Not really. Lols.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Margaret wrote: "

I am not sure my stomach is going to stand up to the rest of this book."

I have never been tempted to read it myself for that reason. My stomach is too weak with that sort of thing. :x

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Terri wrote: "Margaret wrote: "

I am not sure my stomach is going to stand up to the rest of this book."

I have never been tempted to read it myself for that reason. My stomach is too weak with that sort of th..."
Mine's usually kind of strong. At least where books are concerned. I giggled at the brain eating scene in The Silence of the Lambs.

Maybe because this is real. I don't know. But I am getting distinctly queasy when I read Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

[Linda]

TWO RIVERS by Zoe Saadia. Cannot find the gold lettered book/author feature on this new format.

[Dawn]

Two Rivers by Zoe Saadia

What new format Linda??

[Bobby]

Flat Water Tuesday: A Novel

Its a good one!

[Jane]

Started earlier this evening the delightful The Druid's Son, a sort-of prequel to the author's Storyteller series. This one concerns Togidubnos [Togi], a Druid-in-training, in Roman Britain, several centuries before the aforementioned series.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Finished Sons of Thunder

Starting Vikings: The Battle at the End of Time

[William]

I'm reading The Last Conquest by Berwick Coates, only have a few pages to go really, so should finish it pretty soon. Its very good.

[Darcy]

Linking the book for William

[Dawn]

I'm currently reading Ivanhoe by Walter Scott and The Spring of the Ram by Dorothy Dunnett

[Darcy]

Oh do let us know how the Dunnett book is. I really liked the first one, but know these books require a lot of time to invest.

[Dawn]

Will do. I'm in the mood for some epic books and thought this one would fit the bill nicely.

[Jane]

This weekend have read and reviewed Morality Play by Barry Unsworth--a very good medieval mystery.
I've just begun To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Vann Turner, a very interesting period--Western Rome has fallen and is now ruled by the Lombards.

[Bryn]

I've been trying a few things.

Read 100 p. of The First Man in Rome. First I found it catchy but then I found it soapy, and I'm not sure we have a future together. Sorry to have to report this way to Nate. :( The type of story isn't often my thing: social status, money and that.

Took up Kristin Lavransdatter which I read at least twice years and years ago. Happy to say it's everything I hoped or remembered or forgot and I had a hard time putting it down last night.

Also began Ancient Evenings. By Norman Mailer. This isn't straight hf in that he makes their spiritual world real -- the narrator is the ka of a dead person. But if you like that, he does it tremendously, besides, geez he can write.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Oh thank God...I thought I was the only one who didn't think The First Man in Rome was a masterpiece. I loathed it.

[Bryn]

Margaret wrote: "Oh thank God..."

I've trawled reviews. Divergence of opinions -- as always. You're right, though, masses of positive.

[Jane]

Bryn wrote: "Margaret wrote: "Oh thank God..."

I've trawled reviews. Divergence of opinions -- as always. You're right, though, masses of positive."

Or, maybe a lot of negatives don't even write reviews. I thought what I read of that series was ok, but nothing to write home about. I didn't even read the whole series--I'm tired of Antony and Cleopatra--even Caesar and all the Julio-Claudians, for the most part.

[Eileen]

Jane wrote: "Bryn wrote: "Margaret wrote: "Oh thank God..."

I've trawled reviews. Divergence of opinions -- as always. You're right, though, masses of positive."

Or, maybe a lot of negatives don't even write ..."

I enjoyed the series for a while. Probably the first 4 books, then it just began to seem as though it was being dragged out for the income potential. Granted, Caesar led an interesting life, but it was just too much after a while.

What I really appreciated about the books was the author's description of the end of the Roman republic and all the turmoil that brought it to an end. Although I thought I knew a lot about the Romans, until I read these books, I never understood what led to the rise of imperial Rome.

[Jane]

Dramatic license notwithstanding, I got as much about the end of Republican and beginning of Imperial Rome from the tv series, Rome.

[Portia]

Jane, we watched that series and like it very much. Wish there were more than two seasons.

[Jane]

Portia, I feel the same but it came out to money [or lack thereof]. I did buy it so can look at it any time I feel like it. Sometime, get The Mayor of Casterbridge from Netflix. Ciaran Hinds [he played Caesar in the series Rome] is a marvellous Michael Henchard in MoC.

[Portia]

Always money spoils good shows. HBO had a series called "Deadwood" a few years ago and it was cancelled because the sets and costumes were too authentic and ergo too expensive. Ian McShane was in that one.

[Mark]

[Jane]

Started last night The Garden of Evening Mists, Malaya -- beautiful, so far

[Darcy]

I'm reading the delightful

[Eileen]

Jane wrote: "Portia, I feel the same but it came out to money [or lack thereof]. I did buy it so can look at it any time I feel like it. Sometime, get The Mayor of Casterbridge from Netflix. Ciaran Hinds [he..."

Ciaran Hinds was wonderful as the Mayor of Casterbridge. I thought he looked the way the Hardy character would have looked, based on the novel. I did not think he looked much like Julius Caesar would have looked, though. His acting was fine, but I have always thought of Caesar as not quite so bulky, more cerebral. That is probably based on the busts of him that have survived.