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What Are You Reading? February 2012
- boswellbaxter
- Bibliomaniac
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What Are You Reading? February 2012
Just starting the thread. I've got a couple of things I'm eyeing, but I'm finding it difficult to settle to one thing.
Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Half of the Human Race by Anthony Quinn
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
*head desk*
I don't know where to start. Three holds just landed at the library, plus DVD 24 of the Dark Shadows series (been waiting two months, and there's at least six waiting behind me so must hurry on that). Two or three library books on the Kindle (21 day loan and no renewing), plus two Vine ARC's and a Net Galley book. Where to start?
I don't know where to start. Three holds just landed at the library, plus DVD 24 of the Dark Shadows series (been waiting two months, and there's at least six waiting behind me so must hurry on that). Two or three library books on the Kindle (21 day loan and no renewing), plus two Vine ARC's and a Net Galley book. Where to start?
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
Re-reading the Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse series now that we're over the family bereavement that was going on when I first read them.
Also reading Sworn Sword by James Aitcheson (sp). It's good writing with a poetic feel. The characters are well developed but there is a lot of fighting in it. It seems mostly to be battle scenes with the quieter moment fitted in to serve as breathers between the next fight scene. That's not a complaint, just an observation. Your mileage will vary on how you take to this set up. If you don't like extended battle descriptions, you'll probably become bored. If you like them, you'll lap it up. It's a first novel from a young author and if he's given the chance to develop, I think he's got a fantastic career ahead of him.
Also reading Sworn Sword by James Aitcheson (sp). It's good writing with a poetic feel. The characters are well developed but there is a lot of fighting in it. It seems mostly to be battle scenes with the quieter moment fitted in to serve as breathers between the next fight scene. That's not a complaint, just an observation. Your mileage will vary on how you take to this set up. If you don't like extended battle descriptions, you'll probably become bored. If you like them, you'll lap it up. It's a first novel from a young author and if he's given the chance to develop, I think he's got a fantastic career ahead of him.
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com