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What are you reading?
Finishing up Devil's Brood. Next on tap is Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx, for a book group next month. Also will be starting Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Benares and A Crack in the Earth by Simon Winchester (really cool cover, opens up into a newspaper front page from the SF earthquake coverage!)
[quote=""leehow""]Richard Bolitho Midshipman by Alexander Kent[/quote]
My mum used to love the Bolitho books. I've never read one, but only because I've never got around to it. Let us know how you go on with it.
My mum used to love the Bolitho books. I've never read one, but only because I've never got around to it. Let us know how you go on with it.
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
www.elizabethchadwick.com
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
I gave up on Spirit and now I'm looking to read something else. A Quiet Adjustment just came in from the Lib. Its Victorian Era, so hopefully its good.
News, views, and reviews on books and graphic novels for young adult.
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Bolitho
[QUOTE=leehow;8320]I am half way through and can fully understand why your mum loved them,It one of the more realistic naval novels i have read.Very good[/Q
I have read all but two of the Kent Bolitho series....I liked that he was a contemporary of Nelson and they do cross paths a couple of times....Same kind of vain as the Hornblower series....Be aware Kent in many Critic's circles is not appreciated....I for one really enjoyed the series.....
I have read all but two of the Kent Bolitho series....I liked that he was a contemporary of Nelson and they do cross paths a couple of times....Same kind of vain as the Hornblower series....Be aware Kent in many Critic's circles is not appreciated....I for one really enjoyed the series.....
I'm halfway through Katherine Neville's The Fire, which is the sequel to The Eight, that came by mail a couple days ago. I'm not as fascinated by the characters and adventure/action in Fire as I was in Eight, but will finish reading Fire without doing too much skimming through details about historical characters that just doesn't to add anything useful to the story.
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The Passionate Queen, a 1966 historical novel by Barnaby Ross about Margaret of Anjou. I'm also reading The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer, a great nonfiction book about day-to-day life in the 14th century.
Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/