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Posted: Fri April 22nd, 2011, 12:35 am
by boswellbaxter
For HF, I started Stephanie Dray's Lily of the Nile yesterday. I'm enjoying it. On the NF front, I'm reading Robert Hutchinson's Young Henry, about the early days of Henry VIII.

Posted: Fri April 22nd, 2011, 2:04 am
by annis
Sarah Challis, The Garden Party. I'm enjoying it a lot - Challis writes appealing, sympathetic modern family dramas, rather like Joanna Trollope in style.

Posted: Fri April 22nd, 2011, 2:27 am
by SonjaMarie
I've finished "The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of The North Atlantic" by John Malcolm Brinnin (608pgs, 1971orig, 1986ed)*. A very interesting and readable look at the great liners of the golden age of seagoing and the sad decline. Discusses all the great ships and some others. I enjoyed it.

SM

Posted: Fri April 22nd, 2011, 8:36 am
by Amanda
I am about 200 pages into The CrimsonPetaland the White. It is quite Dickensean, and definitely shows a few aspects of the Underbelly of Victorian times.

Thought I had best read it before watching the series.

Posted: Fri April 22nd, 2011, 11:53 am
by cw gortner
Recently finished Kate Quinn's Daughters of Rome, which I thoroughly enjoyed- fun, sexy, witty. Currently reading Deborah Harkness's A Discovery of Witches and Liza Picard's Elizabeth's London (it's becoming my bible :)

Posted: Fri April 22nd, 2011, 12:30 pm
by EC2
Busy with The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar - same mould as Amitav Ghosh.

Posted: Fri April 22nd, 2011, 5:33 pm
by SonjaMarie
[quote=""cw gortner""] Liza Picard's Elizabeth's London (it's becoming my bible :) [/quote]

I'm currently reading that as one of my 12 books as well. It's very good! I also have her book on Victorian London for another time.

SM

Posted: Fri April 22nd, 2011, 9:04 pm
by princess garnet
Mary of Carisbrooke by Margaret Campbell Barnes (reissue)
1st time reading this one!

Posted: Sat April 23rd, 2011, 3:31 am
by javagirl
[quote=""Berengaria""]You'll love the Bosch series! Do you remember the movie Bloodworkswith Clint Eastwood. Connelly wrote the book.[/quote]

I knew Eastwood's Blood Work movie was based on Connelly's book and have had it on my "to watch" list for a while but haven't seen it yet. I am enjoying The Black Echo so far.

Posted: Sat April 23rd, 2011, 5:50 pm
by Steve Anderson
Hi all. New guy here. I just started Field Gray by Philip Kerr. If you're not familiar, his Bernie Gunther series is historical espionage/crime noir. In this one former Berlin detective Gunther has to come clean about his role in WWII, and the story switches between the 1940s and 1950s. Like it so far. It's already better than his last one and definitely my kind of read.