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[Sceadugenga]

Dawn wrote: "And then you'll be finished the series....what will you read next??"

I'll finish just in time for..... God of Vengeance

After that I'll have to go to Gile's house with an axe and do a "misery" on him....lol

[Jaime]

I have finally started reading .

[Dawn]

I started Solomon Gursky Was Here

[Jane]

Legion / William Altimari

[happy]

Jaime wrote: "I have finally started reading ."

This just got added to the TBR - Mr. Stewart is my all time favorite actor

[happy]

Finished my book on the WW I battle of Verdun


and just staring Harry Sidebottom's

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Started nothing, finished nothing. Still on and

I'm in a reading slump. :(

[happy]

Teri,

Sometimes that just the way life goes :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

It sure is. :)

[Linda]

IMPROPER INFLUENCE. a crime, mystery thriller.

[Sceadugenga]

I've been side-tracked again, I found this the other day in the back of the bookcase and wanted to look up a few things I wound up reading it again

Feels a bit like one of my dreams one minute I was in a storm off the coast of Frankia in the 9th century now I'm on a helicopter heading into the A Shau Valley in 1969...

[Darcy]

Posting link for Linda Improper Influence (I hope this is the write one, there were a couple, but this one said it's a thriller :) )

[Allison]

Jaime wrote: "I have finally started reading ."

I need to get to that one too. Love him.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Sceadugenga wrote: "I've been side-tracked again, I found this the other day in the back of the bookcase and wanted to look up a few things I wound up reading it again ?

[Bobby]

[Suzanne]

Marina wrote: Am I an utter philistine if the only things I know about the plot come from a half-remembered cartoon from 20 years ago? :D"

Well, if you are, that makes two of us... My Dickens reading falls into two opposed camps - can't devour it fast enough (Bleak House, The Pickwick Papers) or can't seem to make it through more than a couple of pages before I get bored (Great Expectations). A Tale of Two Cities has been on my 'currently reading' list for quite some time now...

[Darcy]

I've read it twice. It was my second ever full English novel (I learned with Dickens) and then when I first join GR, another group did it as a group read.

The thing about A Tale of Two Cities is that's it's somewhat different from his others books. It's his only historical fiction, but his verbosity is all there ;)

It's not my favourite of his, but it's not his worst either.

Links for books mentioned by Suzanne:
Bleak House
The Pickwick Papers
Great Expectations

[Jane]

That's precisely the word! Hus only other I've liked, and of course it's not historical fiction, is Oliver Twist. I wasn't able to get into any others I read, and some were required reading in high school, where I was too young to appreciate him.

[Darcy]

My favourite of his is Hard Times. It was the one I could relate to the most. Oliver Twist was okay too as is Barnaby Rudge

[Shoshi]

Charles Dickens knows so well, how to describe the Victorian London. With the dirty , gritty , poverty. The corruption of the people.

[Jane]

Yes, that is his strength. He was one of the first of 'realistic' writers.

[Ramona]

drood by dan simmons is based on Charles Dickens, told through the eyes of Wilkie Collins. brill Book!!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Here's the link for that one: Drood

[Allison]

That one is a chunkster!!

[Scott]

Currently reading The Plantagenets and about to start Ship of Magic. So neither is really historical fiction but I still thought I'd share. :)

[C.P.]

Just finished The Pagan Lord, on which more soon, and started Doctor Zhivago for a group read I am leading. Otherwise, just nonfiction books for research, but I swap those out on a strange and unpredictable schedule.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Scott wrote: "Currently reading The Plantagenets and about to start Ship of Magic. So neither is really historical fiction but I still thought I'd share. :)"

That's alright. This thread isn't genre specific. It is all genres. Whatever it is you are reading. :)

[Dawn]

Scott wrote: "Currently reading The Plantagenets and about to start Ship of Magic. So neither is really historical fiction but I still thought I'd share. :)"

Hmm, Plantagenets has some really good ratings. That should be good. I like how one ship wreck could vastly change the political climate like that.

And Robin Hobb is always good!

[happy]

IMO The Plantangents is very good.

[Sceadugenga]

Dawn wrote: "And Robin Hobb is always good!"

I totally agree!!!!

[Scott]

Dawn wrote: "Hmm, Plantagenets has some really good ratings. That should be good. I like how one ship wreck could vastly change the political climate like that.

And Robin Hobb is always good!"

I've just passed halfway in the Plantagenets, and it really is excellent- really entertaining. A couple of times he refers back to the shipwreck at the start and I think that puts into perspective just how different things could have been if William the Ætheling had survived. My only complaint is that in certain places, the author can seemingly be a bit biased about certain figures/ events. Either way, really good book.

And Robin Hobb is always good! I've just finished the Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies (kind of skipped the Liveship Trilogy to keep with the Farseer tales), but now I'm going back to read the others. Excited for the new book in August now :D

[Mark]

musketeers ish so far but darker so far.

[Jane]

In Pale Battalions / Robert Goddard

[Victor]

The Orenda

Just started this. Anyone read this book? It won a lot of awards in Canada.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Victor wrote: "The Orenda

Just started this. Anyone read this book? It won a lot of awards in Canada."

never heard of it. Looks very......literary.

[Victor]

Yeah it does. First 29 pages are pretty good so far though.

[Linda]

Topaz got my book/author feature back! I am not reading TOPAZ. I used it to test this feature!

[Jaime]

I know nothing about this book.

[Dawn]

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie

I don't know what I'm gonna do when I finish all Agathas books!

[Mark]

Dawn wrote: "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie

I don't know what I'm gonna do when I finish all Agathas books!"

Dorothy L. Sayers?

[Allison]

Dawn wrote: "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie

I don't know what I'm gonna do when I finish all Agathas books!"

Fortunately I'm a long way off from that!

[Dawn]

I didn't like Lord Peter Wimsey that much. I though about trying Ngaio Marsh or whoever writes Albert Campion and see how they are.

[Ramona]

at the moment, I am reading 'wideacre' by Philippa Gregory!

[Jane]

Dawn wrote: "I didn't like Lord Peter Wimsey that much. I though about trying Ngaio Marsh or whoever writes Albert Campion and see how they are."

I did enjoy Dame Ngaio's Light Thickens, which was the very last one she wrote. I want to try more of hers myself.

[Mark]

Dawn wrote: "I didn't like Lord Peter Wimsey that much. I though about trying Ngaio Marsh or whoever writes Albert Campion and see how they are."

loved the bbc show of campion with peter Davidson and brian glover. never read the books,

[Linda]

Roses of Winter by Murdo Morrison

[Dawn]

I rather liked those BBC Campion shows to so thought I could try the books.

[Darcy]

Dawn wrote: "I didn't like Lord Peter Wimsey that much. I though about trying Ngaio Marsh or whoever writes Albert Campion and see how they are. "

That would be Margaret Millar :)

[Mark]

Darcy wrote: "Dawn wrote: "I didn't like Lord Peter Wimsey that much. I though about trying Ngaio Marsh or whoever writes Albert Campion and see how they are. "

That would be Margaret Millar :)"

Margery Allingham I think.

[Derek]

Reading Black Roses by Jane Thynne.Black Roses Didn't think it was my sort of book but I'm really enjoying it.