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[Dawn]

And I started The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies on audio.

[happy]

I finally finished A King's Ransom - very good. More of look at the politics and relationships of Richard's reign than a battle history.
Solid 4 stars

Currently reading

Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World

[Victor]

Mark wrote: " getting some serious reading of the gaulish/roman conflict. ;)"

I loved those as a kid, so I bought some for my own. He justs needs to learn how to read first.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Victor wrote: "Mark wrote: " getting some serious reading of the gaulish/roman conflict. ;)"

I loved those as a kid, so I bought some for my own. He justs needs to learn how t..."

It won't take him long. :)

I'm the buyer of books for the kids in our extended family. The adults just shake their heads and smile indulgently. "Aunty" Margy's at it again. :D

[Jane]

Creation / Gore Vidal

Eboracum: The Village / Graham Clews

[DeepTiNkEr5]

I am now reading Enemies of Rome.

[Darcy]

Tony,
Could you link the book you mentioned? I tried to do it on your behalf, as we always add a link for a book that hasn't been linked in the previous 4 posts, but there are many books by that title.
Thanks,

[Simona]

Margaret wrote: "VI'm the buyer of books for the kids in our extended family. The adults just shake their heads and smile indulgently. "Aunty" Margy's at it again. :D ..."

These kind of aunties are absolutely the best!

[Gretchen]

I'm starting Becoming Marie Antoinette. The book I was reading The King's Daughter has become a bit of a chore. I need a break.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Simona wrote: "Margaret wrote: "VI'm the buyer of books for the kids in our extended family. The adults just shake their heads and smile indulgently. "Aunty" Margy's at it again. :D ..."

These kind of aunties ar..."

*grins* I sent the youngest a book for her first birthday. According to her mother she squealed and clapped her hands in delight. I've got that one before she can even read! *cackles evilly*

[Linda]

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. I am not as taken with this book as the rest of the world.

[Kimber]

Taking a time out from 12th century Wales and going a little more current with The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic . So far it has focused on the Irish immigrants on Steerage so hopefully no Kate & Leo stuff in the future.

[Allison]

Margaret wrote: "Simona wrote: "Margaret wrote: "VI'm the buyer of books for the kids in our extended family. The adults just shake their heads and smile indulgently. "Aunty" Margy's at it again. :D ..."

These kin..."

Lol me too! For my nephew's first Xmas, one of his presents was a HUGE box filled to the brim with books. No one else in my family reads so they rolled their eyes at Auntie (yeah, because I'm the uncool one!) but Landon LOVES them. You can sit him down with a pile of them and he wouldn't move for hours. We are making our way thru a "Winnie the pooh" set and I do all the different voices. That kid is going to be a reader if its the last thing I ever do!!

[Allison]

Linda wrote: "The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. I am not as taken with this book as the rest of the world."

I wasn't either :/
But by the end it turned out to be "ok" rather than awful.

[Jesse]

Figured I've spent a little too long on mystery titles and psych thrillers and needed a good HF to ground me back in my goal of reading 50 this year. So today I start: by Robyn Young anyone read this? I liked by her and hope this isn't a follow-up let-down.

[happy]

good books! IMO One of the better sets on the Templars.

I've got the first two of her scottish trilogy sitting on the night stand just waiting for a time to fit them in :)

[Jesse]

happy wrote: "good books! IMO One of the better sets on the Templars.

I've got the first two of her scottish trilogy sitting on the night stand just waiting for a time to fit them in :)"

Cheers happy! Glad to hear it. Not a short read so I wanted a few opinions before I began later today. never read her Scottish set so let me know when you write a review.

[happy]

will do - it'll be awhile. Mrs. Happy just brought me a bunch from the library include 3 ILLs. The Ill's go to the top of the to read list ;)

[Linda]

Allie wrote: "Linda wrote: "The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. I am not as taken with this book as the rest of the world."

I wasn't either :/
But by the end it turned out to be "ok" rather than awful."

OK, Allie! Now there are two marching to that different drum. I thought something was wrong with me as I am still reading and still disappointed. I can now look forward to the end. Thanks for the comment.

[Linda]

Jesse wrote: "Figured I've spent a little too long on mystery titles and psych thrillers and needed a good HF to ground me back in my goal of reading 50 this year. So today I start: ..."


I have that book and another marked 'to read.' Either the blog was good or someone on Goodreads recommended it. Sorry I cannot help more!

[Mark]

Jesse wrote: "Figured I've spent a little too long on mystery titles and psych thrillers and needed a good HF to ground me back in my goal of reading 50 this year. So today I start: ..."

I have read all 3 and enjoyed them.

[Allison]

Linda wrote: "Allie wrote: "Linda wrote: "The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. I am not as taken with this book as the rest of the world."

I wasn't either :/
But by the end it turned out to be "ok" rather..."

lol No problem :) I usually hate the books everyone else loves with a passion and love the "unpopular" ones instead. I'm cool like that! :D

[Dawn]

Finished To Glory We Steer and started The Palace Tiger

[Gretchen]

Linda wrote: "The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. I am not as taken with this book as the rest of the world."

It's not just you. I didn't care for the book but I liked the movie. Normally things don't work out that way for me.

[Dawn]

I thought they did a really good job of the movie. They made it a little more happy ending but still very good.

[Kimber]

Couldn't get into the Titanic so went back to the 14th century and this time ended up in Scotland with The Black Douglas trilogy by J.R. Tomlin. Finished A Kingdom's Cost last night and starting Countenance of War today after I get back from the Half Price Book Store.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I have missed out on like 100 posts in this thread while I was reading the one book. Hope nobody spoke to me or asked me something. :]

Finished The Lion and the Lamb

Am either going to return to a book I am halfway through King's Gold

or give our other group read a look in. See if I like the start of it. Corrag

[Matt]

I started reading Memnon, but the library finally received a book I ordered, Lion of Macedon, so I will finish that one first.

I do like what I have read in Memnon, but Lion of Macedon is really really good so far. It's been a long time since I've read David Gemmell.

[Kimber]

Made an absolute killing at the used bookstore yesterday. Picked up: Genghis: Birth of an Empire & Genghis: Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury by Edith Pargeter, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, The Tsarina's Daughter and The Last Wife of Henry VIII by Carolly Erickson, The Wild Irish by Robin Maxwell, Royal Inheritance by Kate Emerson, The Botticelli Secret by Marina Fiorato, The Reckoning and When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman, The Countess and the King: A Novel of the Countess of Dorchester and King James II, The French Mistress: A Novel of the Duchess of Portsmouth and King Charles II and Duchess: A Novel of Sarah Churchill by Susan Holloway Scott and last, but definitely not least, The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell. I'm so excited. Sorry for the long post.

[Gretchen]

Oh my! You had incredible luck!

[C.P.]

A killing, indeed—and such a wide range of books: very cool. I read Sprig Muslin and Mary Poppins for another group (both great for relaxing the brain). I'm gearing up for The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, also a group read, while working on On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads. It's interesting but also depressing, as Bryn has noted, because of the destruction wrought on nomadic life—first by communism, now by climate change. Not sure if I will finish it, but either way, it won't be the author's fault. He is culturally sensitive and a good writer, as well as (I'm guessing) a genuinely nice guy.

[Allison]

Good stuff Kimber! Many are in my tbr as well :)

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I read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for a group read in about an hour and a half. Loved it.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Kimber wrote: "Made an absolute killing at the used bookstore yesterday. Picked up.."

Shiver me timbers. That is more than a killing, that is a massacre! You have scored some real beauties f the genre there.
I can't wait for the day you read A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury to see what you think. It is one of my favourites of all time.

[Dawn]

Terri wrote: "I can't wait for the day you read A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury to see what you think. It is one of my favourites of all time...."

And I hated it...
So no matter how you enjoy it, you can talk to one of us!! ;)

[Kimber]

I finished up the Black Douglas series I was reading and now I don't know what to start! I'm thinking about spreading them out and spinning in a circle and reading whatever I fall on. The great thing about the purchase was I went in to do a sell back. I did some spring cleaning and rotated my bookshelves. So I traded in some books and came back with others and after the trade-in value I got all of those books for $15.00 US!

[Allison]

Brian wrote: "Just started reading Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, just about to finish Commodore Hornblower."

I have Benjamin Franklin: An American Life in my tbr. I love learning about historic people but a lot of times Bio's are so dry and unreadable! How are you finding it?

[Dawn]

I'm going all philosophical with How Jesus Became Christian by Barrie Wilson
Not sure how good it will be, I almost fell asleep reading it at lunch!

[Gretchen]

I finished The King's Daughter and I really would like to throw it at something. Not in a fire because that's deplorable but maybe just throw it really hard in the bottom of the book drop at my library. I'm not likely to continue on with the Thornleigh series. I have so many other books waiting to be read. I'm going to keep on with Ursula Blanchard and The Doublet Affair.

[Jane]

bookcover:Eboracvm: The Fortress|7778458] Eboracvm: The Fortress / Graham Clews

[Cameron]

Hi, I'm new to the group and mostly interested in Middle Eastern historical fiction. I thought I'd share one of my favorites-- an older book about the life of the famous medieval Persian poet Omar Khayyam but with plenty of political intrigue as well. Some will find it interesting, particularly in light of what is going on these days in Iraq and Syria. Samarkand

[Dawn]

Welcome Cameron and thanks for the suggestion. :)

[Dawn]

I keep starting more books but not finishing any. I've added Shroud of Dishonour and The Pagan Lord to the currently reading list.

[Kimber]

Almost done with A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury. I'm not sure yet if I can put into words how i'm feeling about it. Right now I think i'm going to fall right in the middle of Terri (who loved it) and Dawn (who hated it) :D

[happy]

I finished the NON FICTION Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World - good general audience look at the battle

Currently readingJeff Shaara's new one



It's #3 in his 4 book "Trilogy" on the ACW's war in the west and the battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga

[Dawn]

Starting Day of the False King: A Novel of Murder in Ancient Babylon by Brad Geagley

[Linda]

Still reading THE GOLDFINCH. I am perhaps the most boring person inn the world because, like Tartt's characters, I spend a lot of time thinking about the past. I take every memory and look at it from every possible point of view. I then go through the 'what ifs.' ( If what ifs and buts were nuts and candy, we would Christmas every day.' I love that internal rhyme of 'buts and nuts' which has a name , but I have forgotten it, and Dolly Parton uses the technique in the song she wrote, the same that Whitney Houston sang so beautifully--I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU! As Donald Duck eould say, "That's it folks!" I feel so much better now, and I am not legally or illegally medicated. But the characters in the book began medicating early in life and early in the day every day. The book is not Rushdie meeting Mantel, it just drones like they do.

[Darcy]

Linking the book Linda mentioned The Goldfinch

[Gretchen]

I finished The Doublet Affair. I haven't decided what I want to move on to next. I have some time before July group reads start. I have Dark Fire, Empress of the Seven Hills, and The Poyson Garden currently sitting in my pile of books that will eventually need to go back to the library. I am not sure which one I want to start reading.

[Mark]

a arc from net gallery. Set just before the roman invasion of britain.

fantasy but more historical as not seen magic as yet.

[Bobby]

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