September 2010: What Are You Reading?

SonjaMarie · Post by **SonjaMarie** » Tue September 14th, 2010, 12:52 am

Misfit, Amanda, C.W: Well I decided that after 35pgs it wasn't for me, but I don't know about the two of you who haven't read it yet. CW: to each their own

SM

Tanzanite · Post by **Tanzanite** » Tue September 14th, 2010, 2:33 am

[quote=""SonjaMarie""]DNF: "The Secret Eleanor" by Cecellia Holland. Just in the first 35pgs, ugh!

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I thought it got better after about then (or whenever it is Eleanor and Henry have sex for the first time). I really liked the focus on Petra and if Eleanor was my sister, I would have wanted to scratch her eyes out at time.

SonjaMarie · Post by **SonjaMarie** » Tue September 14th, 2010, 5:45 am

I've finished "The English Marriage: Tales of Love, Money and Adultery" by Maureen Waller (387pgs, 2009)*. A very interesting and at times distressing look at marriage in the UK from 1465 to 1969.

SM

annis · Post by **annis** » Tue September 14th, 2010, 5:50 am

I've just been reading M D Lachlan's Wolfsangel, fantasy set in a frozen world based on the Norse Hel, an eternally frozen realm. Inspired by Viking culture and Nordic mythology, it's original, eerie and violent. Wolfsangel's werewolf is a fearsome creature, not the semi-cuddly Twilight variety!

LoobyG · Post by **LoobyG** » Tue September 14th, 2010, 2:37 pm

[quote=""Vanessa""]

Funnily enough, I watched Dragonwyck on the TV this afternoon whilst I was doing my ironing! I love those old black and white films. It had Vincent Price in it who has such a distinctive voice. Quite creepy really.[/quote]

I never realised there was a film adaptation too Vanessa, I've just looked it up on Wiki! I bet it's quite atmospheric, more so as a black and white film, I'll keep my eyes peeled for it on the telly box

Nefret · Post by **Nefret** » Tue September 14th, 2010, 3:42 pm

Just started Ivanhoe.

Miss Moppet · Post by **Miss Moppet** » Tue September 14th, 2010, 3:43 pm

[quote=""SonjaMarie""]DNF: "The Secret Eleanor" by Cecellia Holland. Just in the first 35pgs, ugh!

SM[/quote]

Haven't read this one but this was exactly my reaction to Captive Queen. Eleanor books are certainly touching nerves this year!

ETA: I am in the middle of The Valley of Decision by Marcia Davenport, an 1870s-1940s family saga set in Pittsburgh. Background of the steel industry, foreground of family ups and downs. For those of you who like family sagas, I highly recommend it.

cw gortner · Post by **cw gortner** » Tue September 14th, 2010, 4:53 pm

[quote=""Tanzanite""]I thought it got better after about then (or whenever it is Eleanor and Henry have sex for the first time). I really liked the focus on Petra and if Eleanor was my sister, I would have wanted to scratch her eyes out at time.[/quote]

I agree. It improved as it went. At first, I had a horrible moment when I thought it was going to be another lust-in-Poitiers rendition of Eleanor, but it took a turn for the better. She's not quite so admirable in this book, which I liked; but as SonjaMarie says, we each have our own take on these things

Eleanor is a tough character to do well, I'm beginning to think; most writers just tend to go over the top with the whole I'm-too-sexy-for-Louis bits.

fljustice · Post by **fljustice** » Tue September 14th, 2010, 5:33 pm

[quote=""Nefret""]Just started Ivanhoe. [/quote]

I reread that last year. Lots of fun from a stylistic point of view.

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Tue September 14th, 2010, 6:37 pm

[quote=""LoobyG""]I never realised there was a film adaptation too Vanessa, I've just looked it up on Wiki! I bet it's quite atmospheric, more so as a black and white film, I'll keep my eyes peeled for it on the telly box

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I think it was shown on TV quite recently, can't remember which channel, I forgot to record it