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What Are You Reading? December 2011
Just started the fifth book of the Outlander series: The Fiery Cross. Given it's length, I'll be on it for quite a while I'm sure. But loving it already. It's been a year and a half since I read Drums of Autumn, so to help me get back up to speed I'm also reading the Drums of Autumn synopsis from the Outlandish Companion book.
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Was abroad visiting family for the past week. As I'm not very mobile these days, I opted out of a few activities so I've done plenty of reading, mostly not HF but mainly for book group reads:
Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce (weird comic-fantasy detective novel)
Trade Winds by Christina Courtenay (HF)
Achilles by Elizabeth Cook (Iliad-based novella)
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Last Empress by Anchee Min (HF; not quite finished)
Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce (weird comic-fantasy detective novel)
Trade Winds by Christina Courtenay (HF)
Achilles by Elizabeth Cook (Iliad-based novella)
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Last Empress by Anchee Min (HF; not quite finished)
[quote=""sweetpotatoboy""]Was abroad visiting family for the past week. As I'm not very mobile these days, I opted out of a few activities so I've done plenty of reading, mostly not HF but mainly for book group reads:
Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce (weird comic-fantasy detective novel)
Trade Winds by Christina Courtenay (HF)
Achilles by Elizabeth Cook (Iliad-based novella)
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Last Empress by Anchee Min (HF; not quite finished)[/quote]
Achilles was a short but interesting read. What did you think of it?
Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce (weird comic-fantasy detective novel)
Trade Winds by Christina Courtenay (HF)
Achilles by Elizabeth Cook (Iliad-based novella)
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Last Empress by Anchee Min (HF; not quite finished)[/quote]
Achilles was a short but interesting read. What did you think of it?
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She-Wolves by Helen Castor. I've been reading it for awhile as I've made my way through the kings. However, I won't be getting any Edward I books for a bit so I thought I would go ahead and read it and be done. I'm just beginning Margaret of Anjou, one of my least favorite Queens thanks to SKP's Sunne.
Brenna
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[quote=""Brenna""]She-Wolves by Helen Castor. I've been reading it for awhile as I've made my way through the kings. However, I won't be getting any Edward I books for a bit so I thought I would go ahead and read it and be done. I'm just beginning Margaret of Anjou, one of my least favorite Queens thanks to SKP's Sunne.[/quote]
Good book.
SM
Good book.
SM
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[quote=""lauragill""]I had the same reaction. Thetis in the ruins of the funeral pyre was well done, but I thought the last section, with Keats, was exceptionally pretentious.[/quote]
Oh good! It wasn't just me. I know the Iliad to a degree but don't know Keats at all really and you think you needed to, to get anything out of that epilogue. It felt like the author was saying: I can't believe any vaguely well-read person and any reader of my book wouldn't know Keats inside out as well as the Iliad. It spoiled the whole book for me.
Oh good! It wasn't just me. I know the Iliad to a degree but don't know Keats at all really and you think you needed to, to get anything out of that epilogue. It felt like the author was saying: I can't believe any vaguely well-read person and any reader of my book wouldn't know Keats inside out as well as the Iliad. It spoiled the whole book for me.
Finished a review copy of The Discovery of Jeanne Baret (the first woman to circumnavigate the globe) by Glynis Ridley. An interesting read. I'll be doing a review later. Have an ARC up next: Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan by Conn Iggulden.
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Ok so I posted something or at least thought I posted something but it didn't pop up. My apologies if this posts in duplicate!
I finished She-Wolves last night and started Ian Mortimer's The Greatest Traitor about Roger Mortimer. The font is very small so I may be reading other books while attempting to get through this one!
I finished She-Wolves last night and started Ian Mortimer's The Greatest Traitor about Roger Mortimer. The font is very small so I may be reading other books while attempting to get through this one!
Brenna