What are you reading? May 2012

[emr]

Time flies....

The Splendour Falls by Susanna Kearsley

[fljustice]

About a quarter through a NF ARC The Kings' Mistresses by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith. Fascinating!

[boswellbaxter]

Thanks for starting this one, EMR! I was too busy dancing around my mental Maypole.

[Nefret]

I was dancing around a mental maypole as well.

Anyway... just started Beauty and the Werewolf by Mercedes Lackey

[Susan]

Can't believe it's already May! I'm still reading The Forever Queen by Helen Hollick.

[annis]

Currntly reading Worlds Apart by William V Crockett. I'd seen this around but made the mistake of taking a book by its cover and thought it looked like a cheesy historical romance. I decided to give it a go when someone else recommended it, and am enjoying it. Set in the reign of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius (builder of the Antonine Wall in Scotland), it's the story of the clash between two very different cultures - Rome and the Celts of southern Scotland- and how it affects particular people from both sides of the divide.

[ranidays]

I'm reading Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. It came out last year, but I came across it on GR and it has a great rating, so I figured why not! It's very good so far.

[annis]

Still stuck in Ancient Rome! Praetorian, latest in Simon Scarrow's Cato and Macro adventures. A bit like Bernard Cornwell- a little formulaic at times, but always a reliably entertaining read.

Love Durrell's My Family and Other Animals- wonderful memoir. I read it about the same time I discovered Laurence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. Such a ramshackle, talented family, definitely in the great eccentric English tradition

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by annis

Love Durrell's My Family and Other Animals- wonderful memoir. I read it about the same time I discovered Laurence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. Such a ramshackle, talented family, definitely in the great eccentric English tradition

Love the descriptions of Corfu. I went to Corfu a few years ago and 1930s Corfu is very different to the present day one. I liked Corfu Town and some of the lesser visited places. Too many neon lights and kiss-me-quick hat types for my liking in certain places, although we did find a lovely restaurant when we were out exploring so we booked a table for the evening. When we returned there were no menus or prices to be seen anywhere but plenty of Ferraris and Porsches parked in the carpark. The waitress recited the meals of the day - the food was great and, funnily enough, it wasn't that expensive. Good job, really, or we might've been eating dry bread for the rest of the holiday. LOL.

[fljustice]

Taking a break from HF and reading in another passion, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow. Are DNA results infallible? (Pretty close, but not the people and procedures that produce the results.) Is your favorite sports hero on a "lucky" streak or riding a statistically predictable trend? Is that famous CEO really brilliant or the beneficiary of regularly fluctuating markets? Always fascinating to see how our perceptions lead us astray.

Even a little history along the way on the evolution of probability along with number systems!