[quote=""Vanessa""]I'm just about to start Mr Timothy by Louis Bayard.[/quote]
I really enjoyed that one. I've got a review in my PC archives somewhere. I'll have to look it up.
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What are you reading?
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
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Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
Nona...I have heard nothing but great things about his novels......check with Annis or Margaret....I'm sure one of them has read him and will give you A good review.....Enjoy and have fun......
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Sorry to disappoint, Nona, but I haven't actually read them, though they sound good and they've been on my wishlist for some time. Unfortunately they're not available through the inter-library loan service here currently, and I'm trying to be good about not buying any more books for a while as my yearly book budget is sadly overspent.
There's a bit of info about the stories on JD's website, with some audio and video clips.
http://www.gladiatorsoftheempire.com/gladiators.htm
Carla would probably be your best bet, or you could try posting on the
Ancient Greece/Rome thread at the Amazon Historical Fiction Forum- it's pretty likely that someone there might have read the Gladiators of the Empire series
http://www.amazon.com/tag/historical%20 ... 1YIP3Y4AUL
There's a bit of info about the stories on JD's website, with some audio and video clips.
http://www.gladiatorsoftheempire.com/gladiators.htm
Carla would probably be your best bet, or you could try posting on the
Ancient Greece/Rome thread at the Amazon Historical Fiction Forum- it's pretty likely that someone there might have read the Gladiators of the Empire series
http://www.amazon.com/tag/historical%20 ... 1YIP3Y4AUL
Just finished a non fiction essay/book by Margaret Atwood, Debt: the shadow world of wealth. This is a short easy to read book that looks at our economic world in terms of debt, lending, and the balance between them. Fascinating stuff, certainly something to read for anyone concerned about how we got where we are now. The end is a little bit of a hammer to the head, but that's Atwood. Well worth the read
Now reading the first in the Sister Fidelma series Absolution by Murder
Now reading the first in the Sister Fidelma series Absolution by Murder
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Mr Timothy by Louis Bayard
[quote=""EC2""]I really enjoyed that one. I've got a review in my PC archives somewhere. I'll have to look it up.[/quote]
I've only read two chapters so far, but think I'm going to enjoy it. I don't seem to have much time for reading atthe moment.
I've only read two chapters so far, but think I'm going to enjoy it. I don't seem to have much time for reading atthe moment.
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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
I'm starting on Ariel Rising by Elizabeth Redfern. I only got to read about 20 pages before I was too tired last night but so far the writing seems very good. We'll see!
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. --Arnold Lobel
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. --Arnold Lobel
Finished Vivaldi's Virgins last night. I'm going to move to a different country and to a different art and read The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier.
~Susan~
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Now reading The King's Pleasure by Norah Lofts, about Katherine of Aragon. I know many love Phillipa Gregory, but check this book out along with Concubine, and tell me that Loft doesn't run circles around the more recent author. Well written, well researched, with charcters that you care very much about. I even actually like Henry VIII in this book (as a young man....)
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[quote=""Ash""]Now reading The King's Pleasure by Norah Lofts, about Katherine of Aragon. I know many love Phillipa Gregory, but check this book out along with Concubine, and tell me that Loft doesn't run circles around the more recent author. Well written, well researched, with charcters that you care very much about. I even actually like Henry VIII in this book (as a young man....)[/quote]
I agree--and she does it without the sensation and all of the sex.
I agree--and she does it without the sensation and all of the sex.
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Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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