Ender's Game is fantastic - I couldn't tell you how many people I've recommended it to over the years. Stunning twist at the end.Reading a classic SF for a break: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. It moved from "commuting book" to "fireside book" because it grabbed me.
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What Are You Reading? February 2011
- 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
I'm just about to start Sheen on the Silk by Anne Perry.
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
A friend gave me a copy of The Court of the Lion, a huge doorstopper that she promised I would love. According to many reviewers, its HF at its best. Anyone familiar with this one?
http://www.amazon.com/Court-Lion-Novel- ... G1W192ASO1
http://www.amazon.com/Court-Lion-Novel- ... G1W192ASO1
I've read it, although it was some time ago. It's a doorstopper, all right. The thing I remember most about it is that at some point the penny dropped and I realized I was reading the historical events (well, a fictionalization of the historical events) upon which the play in Kathleen Winsor's Calais is based--An Lu Shan and Jade Ring--the one Arlette is obsessed with and constantly quoting from. For me that added an extra layer of interest.
THE RED LILY CROWN: A Novel of Medici Florence.
THE FLOWER READER.
THE SECOND DUCHESS.
www.elizabethloupas.com
THE FLOWER READER.
THE SECOND DUCHESS.
www.elizabethloupas.com
- 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
Time Lord- Sir Sanford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time by Clark Blaise
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}
- 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