March 2015: What are you reading?

red805 · Post by **red805** » Tue March 3rd, 2015, 12:48 am

Just finished another Gabriel Allon book by Daniel Silva - The Rembrandt Affair, which I think is one of his better Allon books. Now starting A Dance with Dragons, book 5 of the Game of Thrones series. It already seems better than book 4. It also repeats the Jon Snow/Samuel Tarly events of book 4, which is odd.

MLE (Emily Cotton) · Post by **MLE (Emily Cotton)** » Tue March 3rd, 2015, 3:33 am

Dissolution by Sansom

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Tue March 3rd, 2015, 10:12 am

[quote=""red805""]Just finished another Gabriel Allon book by Daniel Silva - The Rembrandt Affair, which I think is one of his better Allon books. Now starting A Dance with Dragons, book 5 of the Game of Thrones series. It already seems better than book 4. It also repeats the Jon Snow/Samuel Tarly events of book 4, which is odd.[/quote]

I'm about 250 pages into this, and finding it a bit of a slog! Apparently the second half is better.

red805 · Post by **red805** » Wed March 4th, 2015, 12:12 am

[quote=""Madeleine""]I'm about 250 pages into this, and finding it a bit of a slog! Apparently the second half is better.[/quote]

OK, then looking forward to that

Nefret · Post by **Nefret** » Wed March 4th, 2015, 1:46 am

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Wed March 4th, 2015, 9:25 am

[quote=""red805""]Just finished another Gabriel Allon book by Daniel Silva - The Rembrandt Affair, which I think is one of his better Allon books. Now starting A Dance with Dragons, book 5 of the Game of Thrones series. It already seems better than book 4. It also repeats the Jon Snow/Samuel Tarly events of book 4, which is odd.[/quote]

Seems to be picking up a bit now, Tyrion is still the best character by a mile.

Berengaria · Post by **Berengaria** » Thu March 5th, 2015, 2:27 am

[quote=""Divia""]In two days I'm gonna get myself a copy of Rebel Queen

[/quote]
I got mine! A whole new historical time for me

Nefret · Post by **Nefret** » Thu March 5th, 2015, 4:11 am

Oh, I'm waiting for Rebel Queen from the library.

princess garnet · Post by **princess garnet** » Fri March 6th, 2015, 6:36 pm

Writing the Fiction Series by Karen Wiesner (NF)
Library copy

fljustice · Post by **fljustice** » Fri March 6th, 2015, 8:59 pm

Finished The Dream Lover about George Sand, which I found languid but interesting. Started Letters from Skye which I'm enjoying (because it's so short and for the layering). I do have a bone to pick with epistolary fiction. I grew up writing letters (my high school boyfriend lived in the next county and was a long distance call, so we couldn't endlessly talk on the phone). I also had oversees pen pals--Japanese in elementary, Australian in high school and college. I never wrote or received a short letter. Writing involved considerable effort and oversees was expensive, so I find it difficult to believe that people corresponding from the US and Scotland in the 1910's would write one or two paragraph letters. I also know that it would make for a horrible book to pad the letters with all the trivia most people shared back then. But knowing that and suspending disbelief are two different things. I wish I was better at it.