November 2010: What Are You Reading?

Kasthu · Post by **Kasthu** » Tue November 16th, 2010, 12:14 am

Now reading a book I've been anxious to get to: The Distant Hours, by Kate Morton.

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Tue November 16th, 2010, 8:17 am

Don't forget to let us know what you think of it!! It's a recent addition to my TBR pile.

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Tue November 16th, 2010, 2:05 pm

Picked up The House at Riverton by Kate Morton from the library.

cw gortner · Post by **cw gortner** » Tue November 16th, 2010, 5:08 pm

It must be a trend

I've heard so much about her books, I picked up House of Riverton yesterday. If I like it, I'll probably get Distant Hours.

In the middle of Heresy; it's picked up steam and I'm enjoying it, though I'm not quite sure yet why Giordano Bruno is the lead. It seems as though the author could have used any well-educated Catholic with a charge of heresy against them, even perhaps made the lead a fictional one; Bruno's astonishing historical persona so far has almost no bearing on the story itself. Nevertheless, it's an engrossing read, in the mold of C.J. Sansom's work.

EC2 · Post by **EC2** » Tue November 16th, 2010, 5:40 pm

I tried The House At Riverton but was so-so. It wasn't the best thing since sliced bread but it wasn't totally dire either, just average and better at the beginning than it was at the end. I probably won't read another as I have so much else on the TBR.

Tanzanite · Post by **Tanzanite** » Tue November 16th, 2010, 6:03 pm

Finished Helen Hollick's The Kingmaking (loved it) and will be starting The Lady's Slipper by Deborah Swift later today. It's a bit of a departure from the time periods I normally read about so I know virtually nothing about the historical facts.

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Wed November 17th, 2010, 12:06 am

[QUOTE=cw gortner;73912]It must be a trend

I've heard so much about her books, I picked up House of Riverton yesterday. If I like it, I'll probably get Distant Hours.

C.W I have just started Part II of the book and I am enjoying it! The way she writes makes me want more!

Amanda · Post by **Amanda** » Wed November 17th, 2010, 1:22 am

[quote=""Amanda""]I'm reading Clean: The Unsanitised History of Washing by Katherine Ashenburg[/quote]

Felt I had to share this quote from the book, a small factoid in the margin:

"Shortly before Louis XIV died in 1715, a new ordinance decreed that faeces left in the corridors of Versailles would be removed once a week."

I remembered reading in Farewell My Queen, that Versailles was a thoroughly stinky place and infested with rats, but this is a new level of understanding just how stinky!

Margaret · Post by **Margaret** » Wed November 17th, 2010, 4:07 am

"Shortly before Louis XIV died in 1715, a new ordinance decreed that faeces left in the corridors of Versailles would be removed once a week."

Once a day would be excessively persnickety, I guess. (I was going to use another word than "persnickety" but thought the pun might be going too far.)

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Wed November 17th, 2010, 8:42 pm

Just as well they clean up a bit more often nowadays, especially with the number of visitors there!

I whizzed through "Club Dead", and am now reading "Dead to the World".