September 2010: What Are You Reading?

Nefret · Post by **Nefret** » Wed September 22nd, 2010, 4:21 pm

Just started... Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Wed September 22nd, 2010, 5:34 pm

I've just started The Clocks by Agatha Christie.

SonjaMarie · Post by **SonjaMarie** » Wed September 22nd, 2010, 5:46 pm

Boswell: good luck on "Queen's Grace", copies can be very expensive. Cheapest I've seen lately is $40.

SM

wendy · Post by **wendy** » Wed September 22nd, 2010, 6:41 pm

"How the Irish Saved Civilization" by Thomas Cahill. Not a historical fiction as such - but it does puts a lot of classical work into interesting perspective!

Nefret · Post by **Nefret** » Wed September 22nd, 2010, 9:12 pm

[quote=""wendy""]"How the Irish Saved Civilization" by Thomas Cahill. Not a historical fiction as such - but it does puts a lot of classical work into interesting perspective![/quote]

I so want read that.

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Wed September 22nd, 2010, 9:54 pm

[quote=""Gabriella""]Thank you for the welcome!

"The Queen's Grace" was about Catherine Parr. I had read so much about Henry VIII's other wives, it was great to learn more about Catherine. Even if it was only fiction.
Was "The White Rose" about Elizabeth Woodville?[/quote]

Hi there and welcome. I've read The White Rose as well and it is sympthetic towards Elizabeth. I recall Richard being pretty black in that one.

Finished Mavreen by Claire Lorrimer and nothing is calling me at the moment. I'm trying a few pages of Juliet by Anne Fortier.

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Wed September 22nd, 2010, 10:15 pm

[quote=""wendy""]"How the Irish Saved Civilization" by Thomas Cahill. Not a historical fiction as such - but it does puts a lot of classical work into interesting perspective![/quote]

Two new posters today and I've only been on one thread today. Welcome wendy.

boswellbaxter · Post by **boswellbaxter** » Wed September 22nd, 2010, 10:51 pm

[quote=""SonjaMarie""]Boswell: good luck on "Queen's Grace", copies can be very expensive. Cheapest I've seen lately is $40.

SM[/quote]

Oh, well, I've got plenty to read in the meantime!

cw gortner · **THE QUEEN'S VOW available on June 12, 2012!**

[quote=""Ariadne""]Interesting report about Children of Hachiman, Annis! The "cast of thousands" makes it seem rather daunting

CW, I just picked up The Astronomer myself, so good to hear it's so engrossing...

I finished Maeve Haran's The Lady and the Poet two days ago, and am now reading Mary Novik's Conceit. The former is a leisurely romantic novel about John Donne and Ann More, and the latter covers the life of their daughter, Pegge.[/quote]

I think you'll like The Astronomer. It's well done. I'm interested in reading The Lady and The Poet, which I have (though the title keeps evoking the Frank Sinatra song for me, "That's why the lady is a tramp . . .")

annis · Post by **annis** » Thu September 23rd, 2010, 3:23 am

Just been reading a review of The Astronomer in which the reviewer grizzles about a mention of potatoes in Germany. The anachronistic potato is a frequent complaint, but the first potatoes were planted in Germany in the mid 1500's,-grown and eaten mostly by peasants- so depending on the book's timeframe I wonder if the reviewer might in fact be wrong in this case?