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What are you reading December 2015?
Re: What are you reading December 2015?
The Scarlet Wench (Nora Tierney Mysteries, #3) by Marni Graff, the last of my high school classmate's first mystery series.
~Susan~
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Re: What are you reading December 2015?
Since this is my time of year to snuggle up with my cats and a good book, I've been reading a lot. I'm on a non-fiction kick this season, though a few fiction titles crept in. So far:
The Conqueror's Wife by Stephanie Thornton
A Thousand Nights
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Horses, the Wheel, and Language by David Anthony (about the Indo-European expansion)
The Conqueror's Wife by Stephanie Thornton
A Thousand Nights
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Horses, the Wheel, and Language by David Anthony (about the Indo-European expansion)
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3566
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
Re: What are you reading December 2015?
Laura, Guns, Germs and Steel is on my keeper shelf. It perfectly explains why the Maya/Aztec civilizations never got llamas or alpacas from the Mochica -to-Inca civilizations just a few hundred miles south of them.
I have been given two recommendations: Men of the Cross by Charlene Newcomb -- a crusader tale; and Anna Belfrage's A Rip in the Veil, a timeslip.
Decision, decisions.
I have been given two recommendations: Men of the Cross by Charlene Newcomb -- a crusader tale; and Anna Belfrage's A Rip in the Veil, a timeslip.
Decision, decisions.
- princess garnet
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1797
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Maryland
Re: What are you reading December 2015?
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (40th anniversary ed.)
Kept seeing this in the library so I thought I'd give it a read.
Kept seeing this in the library so I thought I'd give it a read.
Re: What are you reading December 2015?
Named of the Dragon by Susanna Kearsley
~Susan~
~Unofficial Royalty~
Royal news updated daily, information and discussion about royalty past and present
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~Unofficial Royalty~
Royal news updated daily, information and discussion about royalty past and present
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- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5860
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
Re: What are you reading December 2015?
I've just started the 6th Poldark novel "The Four Swans".
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross
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- Avid Reader
- Posts: 286
- Joined: October 2010
- Preferred HF: Lately World Two or the time immediately before and after this period
- Location: Australia
Re: What are you reading December 2015?
Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth- a reimaging tale of the Rapunzel story. Bit grim though- err no pun intended there.
Re: What are you reading December 2015?
Women in the Wind by Margaret Ritter. Big chunkster.
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
- red805
- Avid Reader
- Posts: 303
- Joined: August 2008
- Preferred HF: I like a series the best - more to look forward to after one book ends. Masters of Rome, The Century Trilogy, & the Outlander series are some of my favorites.
- Location: Southern California
Re: What are you reading December 2015?
Last book to start in 2015 is The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani. Early 20th Century in Italy. So far it's a good one.