October 2010: What Are You Reading?

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Sat October 2nd, 2010, 9:05 pm

[quote=""Kasthu""]Rebecca' Johns's The Countess left me a little cold, so I decided to read Penmarric instead.[/quote]

Ooooh, is this your first Howatch? I can't remember. Finished Seventrees by Janice Young Brooks (very good) and after tossing Corragg for the moment I think I'll settle into Tamarisk by Claire Lorrimer.

laktor · Post by **laktor** » Sat October 2nd, 2010, 9:29 pm

I'm currently reading Steven Saylor's Roman Blood and I'll follow that with Ken Follett's Fall of Giants, Byzantium from Stephen Lawhead and Steven Saylor's Empire. Lots of great reading ahead!

Nefret · Post by **Nefret** » Sun October 3rd, 2010, 12:01 am

Still in... The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Ariadne · Post by **Ariadne** » Sun October 3rd, 2010, 2:24 am

Halfway through Rebecca Johns' The Countess and enjoying it much more than I expected! (I don't go in for blood and violence, normally.)

cw gortner · Post by **cw gortner** » Sun October 3rd, 2010, 2:46 am

[quote=""Ariadne""]Halfway through Rebecca Johns' The Countess and enjoying it much more than I expected! (I don't go in for blood and violence, normally.)[/quote]

I really want to read this one I find Elizabeth Bathory horrifying and fascinating. Years ago, I read and enjoyed The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu. I'm looking forward to this one, and to hearing your opinions

SonjaMarie · Post by **SonjaMarie** » Sun October 3rd, 2010, 2:51 am

I also have "The Countess" on my Amazon WL, but still not sure if I want to read it. She creeps me out

SM

Ariadne · Post by **Ariadne** » Sun October 3rd, 2010, 3:05 am

So far on the blood-o-meter, The Countess barely rates, and I'm learning a lot about the lives of noblewomen in 16th-century Hungary. (I admit I like this part.) But there are some glimmers of nastiness to come. The back cover hints that the charges against her may have been a trumped-up conspiracy, so I'm curious where this will lead.

SonjaMarie · Post by **SonjaMarie** » Sun October 3rd, 2010, 3:08 am

[quote=""Ariadne""]So far on the blood-o-meter, The Countess barely rates, and I'm learning a lot about the lives of noblewomen in 16th-century Hungary. (I admit I like this part.) But there are some glimmers of nastiness to come. The back cover hints that the charges against her may have been a trumped-up conspiracy, so I'm curious where this will lead.[/quote]

Well let us know how the rest of it is.

SM

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Sun October 3rd, 2010, 11:33 am

[quote=""Ariadne""]So far on the blood-o-meter, The Countess barely rates, and I'm learning a lot about the lives of noblewomen in 16th-century Hungary. (I admit I like this part.) But there are some glimmers of nastiness to come. The back cover hints that the charges against her may have been a trumped-up conspiracy, so I'm curious where this will lead.[/quote]

Lol, blood-o-meter. You've reminded me I have Bathory by A Mordeaux sitting around somewhere. Michele (A Reader's Respite) gifted me with that in revenge for my suckering her into reading Heir Apparent. Said I should burn it afterward.

LoobyG · Post by **LoobyG** » Sun October 3rd, 2010, 3:11 pm

Just finished 'Dawn's Early Light' by Elswyth Thane which I enjoyed tremendously, I've ordered the third book in the Williamsburg series and am awaiting the thud on my door mat

Until then, I'm going to have a short break from HF and read 'Dead to the World' by Charlaine Harris, the 4th book in the Sookie Stackhouse series.