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[Jane]

Terri wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Jane wrote: "I started last night The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth -- Norman kingdom of Sicily, 1100s."

I have..."

Done!! Also here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Dawn]

I'm always reading too many books Marilee. I've got 6 books on the go right now myself. :)

[Allison]

Eek! How can you do that?

[Marilee]

Dawn wrote: "I'm always reading too many books Marilee. I've got 6 books on the go right now myself. :)"
Oh my, six? That makes my 3 seem a pittance.

Well, as some say, life is all about juggling.

By the way, I read The Silver Pigs a couple of years ago and enjoyed it… light reading, but well done and it seemed pretty accurate to the history and period. It's the first in a series, if I recall. Must get into the others one of these days… so many books, so little time.

I read all 20 of the Patrick O'Brian Jack Aubrey books a few years ago. Master and Commander just takes a little patience getting into it and coming to understand the jargon and getting to know the characters…. Be careful, the series becomes quite addictive, in the best way.

[Dawn]

I've always got somewhere between 4 and 10 books on the go at one time. Mostly for the same reasons as Marilee, to suit my mood or for format.

I'm only three into the Aubrey/Maturin series. But it's just getting better with each book. I like naval fiction anyway so there is no doubt I will finish this series. :)

[Jane]

Have just read this evening the Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone. You will look at Antigone with new eyes at Haney's version.
Gave it 5*****.

[Jane]

Started Three Six Seven by Peter Vansittart-- AD 367 and its events, influence on the narrator and on Britain. Waning years of Roman Britain.

[Linda]

GRed Runby Rob Cornelius. The book is a murder mystery, easy to read, no errors. After reading a Sharon Kay Penman novel, I needed to read something completely different from historical fiction. Surprisingly, this whodunit could be considered a modern historical thriller. I am learning about a sub- culture involving drugs and over-kill, but no new vulgar language.

[Dawn]

Finished Emperor of Thorns and it was a good finish to the series Mark!!

[Mark]

Dawn wrote: "Finished Emperor of Thorns and it was a good finish to the series Mark!!"

Good to hear. :)

[Mark]

Perdido Street Station

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Linda wrote: "GRed Runby Rob Cornelius. The book is a murder mystery, easy to read, no errors. After reading a Sharon Kay Penman novel, I needed to read something completely different from hist..."

No new vulgar language? That's no fun;)

[Alicja]

Mark wrote: "Perdido Street Station "

I want to read that one. I just finished Embassytown recently and loved it. How are you liking this one?

[Mark]

Alicja wrote: "Mark wrote: "Perdido Street Station "

I want to read that one. I just finished Embassytown recently and loved it. How are you li..."

Brilliant, mind blowing, and thats the first 50pages.

[Alicja]

Mark wrote: "Alicja wrote: "Mark wrote: "Perdido Street Station "

I want to read that one. I just finished Embassytown recently and loved it...."

This will definitely be on my list for 2014 then. Thanks! :)

[happy]

finished Jack Whyte's second volume of his Scottish trilogy



Not bad, but not great I rated it 4 stars, but that is rounding up. No big battle scenes and a touch of romance ( He falls instantly in love with his wife to be who he had never met, but has been espoused to for several yrs ) Mainly a character sketch, plus a look at the politics between England and Scotland.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Hi Happy,
people checking into the Scottish Wars of Independence thread may be interested in your thoughts. May I paste a copy of your post there? So it doesn't get lost?
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[happy]

Terri wrote: "Hi Happy,
people checking into the Scottish Wars of Independence thread may be interested in your thoughts. May I paste a copy of your post there? So it doesn't get lost?
https://www.goodreads.com..."

Already put something there - thx for keeping me on the straight and narrow. I'll also put a link to my thoughts there when I get them written :)

Also currently reading a non fiction book

[Andy]

The Dark Volume Its kinda Victorian & it's kinda Sherlockholmesness in it's own way

[Bryn]

I began Gore Vidal's Creation, although why, when I have two perfectly good books on, I don't know. I think because I didn't understand either of them last night.

Creation has a fun beginning. Our Persian observer has to attend a 6-hour lecture by Herodotus and is bagging him out as an ignorant Greek.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

happy wrote: "Terri wrote: "Hi Happy,
people checking into the Scottish Wars of Independence thread may be interested in your thoughts. May I paste a copy of your post there? So it doesn't get lost?
https://www..."


Oh. I didn't mean to put you on the straight and narrow. Sorry if it came off that way.

I just see so many thoughts being posted in this thread about historical fiction books that are going to waste because once it gets passed 10 post or so, nobody will see those thoughts.
And it is fellow members thoughts that people look for when checking out book ideas.

[happy]

'sa right :)

if I don't have somebody keeping me pointed in the right direction, I tend to wander :D

[Alicja]

I picked up a nonfiction book The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece from the library but I won't get to it until 2014 because I have to finish a few others by the end of the year first. However, I am really looking forward to it, it is all about infantry battles in ancient Greece, something I'm really interested in.

[Mark]

Just finished The White Queen, which was far from the soppy romance I thought it would be, and just started reading The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc.

[Rick]

Just finished Jack Whyte,s “Order in Chaos”. Great read. I have enjoyed nearly all of his stories, this last in the series of Templar Knight trilogy is no exception.

[Tim]

I'm reading Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever while I wait for my copy of The Winter King to arrive. Its really very good. Historical, though not fiction.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

You have never read The Winter King, Tim? That's a surprise.
If I knew that I had forgotten.

[Tim]

Terri wrote: "You have never read The Winter King, Tim? That's a surprise.
If I knew that I had forgotten."

I read it 11 years ago on Honeymoon in Thailand. The details escape me now and I am in the mood for some Arthurian reading so I thought I would re-visit Cornwell's trilogy.

[Linda]

Correlli Barnett MARLBOROUGH. I started reading and stopped because I could not fairly review and rate the book. Some readers like straight history, I do not. This book is an account of John Churchill's life and his service to his country in several ways. His star was eclipsed by other more well known men such as Admiral Wellington. He was a good diplomat for the English Crown. Winston Churchill is a descendant of John Churchill. What I have read about Winston suggests that he and John have much in common. I would like to know what others think about this book. As yet, it has not been reviewed on Amazon.

[Jane]

Just started Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones. Very good so far.
Blurb calls it a Spanish The Pillars of the Earth. We shall see. Building of a cathedral in Barcelona in the 14th century and the Inquisition...

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Currently reading Bonk

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That book sounds quite interesting there, Margaret.

I'm reading Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

[happy]

Derek wrote: "That book sounds quite interesting there, Margaret.

I'm reading [..."

I found it to be a good read.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Derek wrote: "That book sounds quite interesting there, Margaret.

I'm reading [..."

It's strange and extremely creepy on some levels.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Finished - 4 stars

Started

[Andy]

Margaret wrote: "Currently reading Bonk"

is that MORE fluff reading I see ;)

[Jane]

Just finished correlating

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: text in hand, with movie of the same. I plan to read text alone to pick up some dialogue the movie missed. Glad library copy had where different scenes were, from originally--plus other notes...

[C.P.]

Sultana and The Last Kingdom. And if that's not enough to cause mental whiplash, I don't know what would. ;-)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Andy wrote: "Margaret wrote: "Currently reading Bonk"

is that MORE fluff reading I see ;)"

Nope. Mary Roach is a science writer. It was a strange little book, and somewhat creepy, but DEFINITELY no fluff involved in the making of that book.

[Bryn]

A memoir. Unusual for me but then it's called Mongol.
Cute cover

[[deleted user]]

Now reading The Crusader

[Jane]

Now reading Farewell Britannia, short stories about generations of a fictional Romano-British family, taking you through the whole of Roman Britannian history.

[Andy]

Sounds good that Jane, mind I read his A.D. 500: A Journey Through The Dark Isles Of Britain And Ireland & wasn't overly impressed, will look for your review on this & remain hopefull it's a better read than AD500

[Darcy]

Andy wrote: "Sounds good that Jane, mind I read his A.D. 500: A Journey Through The Dark Isles Of Britain And Ireland [bookcover:A.D. 500: A Journey Through The Dark Isles Of Britain And Ireland|..."

I really liked this one. The premise was interesting and I liked how the author gave the book a real sense of how the 'historian' would view the 'natives'. The civilised assessing the 'uncivilised'. It may be exaggerated, but I think if read by students of history, it's a good example of how they should interpret actual history, that it was often written by one group using their own biases to express their dissatisfaction or repulsion of the 'other'

[Andy]

Agree Darcy wrt to the premise however imo the delivery wasn't as funny as it claimed to be nor was there any real depth of historical detail (conjecture mostly) - kind of neither here nor there for me - c'est La Vie - but hopeful that Farewell britannia is better in it's delivery as again the premise is promising.

[Dawn]

I've got three books on the go that I'm hoping to finish by the end of the year.


Stormbird by Conn Iggulden
The Blood of Alexandria by Richard Blake
and
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

[Carol]

Am readingFive Dead Canaries set in era of WW1 in England when women were employed to pack munitions for the war effort and turned yellow from chemical exposure. Hence the name canaries

[Andy]

Dawn wrote: "I've got three books on the go that I'm hoping to finish by the end of the year.


Stormbird by Conn Iggulden
[bookcover:The Blood of ..."

Looks like you & lisa will have to carry on, with me bringing up the rear on Stormbird - its NOW ready to collect at the library :) bless 'em, likely my first book of 2014

[Vanessa Eden]

@mark...Amen! I agree, when I read White Queen, I didn't find it Dippy with romance either. I rather enjoyed it. :)

[Mark]

Finished The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc this morning, and will be starting An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris later on. Just got this for my birthday recently and excited to read it as I love all of his books. Late 19th century this one though, rather than ancient or medieval.