What are you reading November 2018?

[Misfit]

New month new thread. I'm still not reading much, and not historical.

[princess garnet]

The Lost Queen by Signe Pike
It's the 1st novel in a trilogy about Queen Languoreth who was an early medieval Scottish Queen. More about the novel on the author's website: https://www.signepike.com/the-lost-queen-usa/

[Nefret]

The Lost Queen by Signe Pike
It's the 1st novel in a trilogy about Queen Languoreth who was an early medieval Scottish Queen.

That is on my reading list. How is it?

I'm currently reading The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden.

[Madeleine]

I'm currently reading The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden.[/quote]

I've just ordered this, along with The Bear and the Nightingale, have heard a lot about them.

[princess garnet]

The Lost Queen by Signe Pike
It's the 1st novel in a trilogy about Queen Languoreth who was an early medieval Scottish Queen.

That is on my reading list. How is it?

So far, it's good. I'm about 2/3 in to the novel now.

[Madeleine]

I've just started the 4th in the St Mary's series - "A Trail through Time" by Jodi Taylor.

[Margaret]

I'm between novels, having just finished and greatly enjoyed Barbara Kingsolver's Unsheltered. I'm deciding among three ARCs:

ES Thomson, The Blood (mystery series about a female apothecary in Victorian London)
Abir Mukherjee, Smoke and Ashes (mystery series about a British detective in India, with a native assistant)
Elizabeth Fremantle, The Poison Bed (thriller about a husband and wife in 1615 who are both accused of murder)

Which will it be? Any suggestions?

[Madeleine]

I've just discovered I've read the Jodi Taylor, around 18 months ago ! Suddenly realised that a couple of things were very familiar, so I looked back through my book logs and there it was. I'm scared now as I remember so little about it, although it's gradually coming back to me. Do I continue or not?

[IluvbooksMA]

Focusing mostly on information gathering lately about the medieval periods by author Dan Jones. He has written several historical books and I highly recommend him.

[Margaret]

Do I continue or not?

This has happened to me more than once over the years. I think that even with very good novels, one forgets details and how parts of the story unwind, even when one remembers the general overall impression of setting, what the main characters are like, and so on. Plus, there are a few novels I like so much that I re-read them just to experience the story again and pick up insights and details I missed the first time around. I'd say keep reading, if you're enjoying the book. If not so much, you may enjoy it less and less as it goes on, and I'd set it aside in favor of something more enjoyable, because the freshness of a new story will be missing, even if you don't remember a lot of it.