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What Are You Reading? July 2013
Just started Once More, Miranda by Jennifer Wilde. Promising start, gorgeous artwork on the cover by Tom Hall.
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
- Nefret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2994
- Joined: February 2009
- Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
- Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
- Location: Temple of Isis
[quote=""JaneConsumer""]Read whatever your heart desires. Here Be Dragons is one of my favorites in the genre. Life's too short not to spend it with favorites.[/quote]
I want to read all the books, at once. That doesn't seen possible.
I want to read all the books, at once. That doesn't seen possible.
Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
- princess garnet
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1797
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Maryland
[quote=""emr""]The Red Knight by Miles Cameron (aka Christian Cameron). I had noticed the Arthurian inspiration behind this but it has taken me 300 pages to see who the Red Knight would be in that picture. I'm slow [/quote]
I borrowed that when it came to the library. It's the 1st installment in a series.
I borrowed that when it came to the library. It's the 1st installment in a series.
Just started The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. So far so good.
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
Yes- Cameron goes back to the older medieval and later Victorian quasi-medieval lays for inspiration for Red Knight - he talks about that here:
http://www.traitorson.com/the-world/
I enjoyed it but had a few quibbles about it - the frenetic pace and constant POV-hopping was a bit distracting at times, though it's interesting to see the old struggle between Christianity and the pagan world used as a starting point for a fantasy.
I see that he's finished Bk 2 now- titled The Fell Sword- not sure on publication date.
Just finished Posie Graeme-Evans The Island House - loved it and gobbled it up, though not a patch on Gordon Honeycombe's Dragon Under the Hill as far as raising the hair at the back of the neck goes
I found somecool photos taken on location in Scotland posted by Graeme-Evans which helped with the atmosphere, too.
http://www.traitorson.com/the-world/
I enjoyed it but had a few quibbles about it - the frenetic pace and constant POV-hopping was a bit distracting at times, though it's interesting to see the old struggle between Christianity and the pagan world used as a starting point for a fantasy.
I see that he's finished Bk 2 now- titled The Fell Sword- not sure on publication date.
Just finished Posie Graeme-Evans The Island House - loved it and gobbled it up, though not a patch on Gordon Honeycombe's Dragon Under the Hill as far as raising the hair at the back of the neck goes
I found somecool photos taken on location in Scotland posted by Graeme-Evans which helped with the atmosphere, too.
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- Lisa
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1153
- Joined: August 2012
- Favourite HF book: Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
- Preferred HF: Any time period/location. Timeslip, usually prefer female POV. Also love Gothic melodrama.
- Location: Northeast Scotland
Thanks annis, that's a cool link with PGE's photos from researching The Island House. I remember when I was reading it wondering where exactly she meant when Portsolly was described as the "far North East of Scotland" - was it meant to be around Peterhead, or more like Wick? Or was she just being deliberately vague with that?
I remember picking up Dragon Under the Hill in a second-hand bookstore once. The guy told me it was very chilling and disturbing and would give me nightmares, and because even the cover was creepy (boy's head with dragon in it) I put it back down again. I don't like my books to be too scary or I have trouble getting to sleep! But yeah The Island House was really tame that way.
I remember picking up Dragon Under the Hill in a second-hand bookstore once. The guy told me it was very chilling and disturbing and would give me nightmares, and because even the cover was creepy (boy's head with dragon in it) I put it back down again. I don't like my books to be too scary or I have trouble getting to sleep! But yeah The Island House was really tame that way.
[quote=""LadyB""]
I remember picking up Dragon Under the Hill in a second-hand bookstore once. The guy told me it was very chilling and disturbing and would give me nightmares, and because even the cover was creepy (boy's head with dragon in it) I put it back down again. I don't like my books to be too scary or I have trouble getting to sleep! But yeah The Island House was really tame that way.[/quote]
Dragon Under the Hill is a masterpiece - I need to get hold of a copy and re-read it. But yes, it probably will give you nightmares if you are that way inclined!
I remember picking up Dragon Under the Hill in a second-hand bookstore once. The guy told me it was very chilling and disturbing and would give me nightmares, and because even the cover was creepy (boy's head with dragon in it) I put it back down again. I don't like my books to be too scary or I have trouble getting to sleep! But yeah The Island House was really tame that way.[/quote]
Dragon Under the Hill is a masterpiece - I need to get hold of a copy and re-read it. But yes, it probably will give you nightmares if you are that way inclined!
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