What Are You Reading? March 2011

Perdita · Post by **Perdita** » Sat March 5th, 2011, 1:07 pm

Just started Heresy by SJ Parris. It's meant to be a bit like the Shardlake novels but this time set in Elizabethan times with Giordano Bruno as the hero. It's good so far

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Sat March 5th, 2011, 2:09 pm

Hoping to finish Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon this weekend, but grading tests and essays and lesson plans stand in the way. I'm 75% done with the book and while I like it, it's not the WOW! book that Outlander was.

SonjaMarie · Post by **SonjaMarie** » Sat March 5th, 2011, 9:07 pm

I've finished "The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Francoise d'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon" by Veronica Buckley (456pgs, 2008). What a fascinating life this woman led, she had some very admirable qualities and some not so appealing ones, but this book was more sympathetic to her then descriptions I've read of her in other books in the past.

SM

Elysium · Post by **Elysium** » Sat March 5th, 2011, 9:18 pm

reading By Fire, By Water by Mitchell James Kaplan and I'm loving it!

cw gortner · Post by **cw gortner** » Sun March 6th, 2011, 7:43 am

Finished Before Versailles by Karleen Koen, which I enjoyed immensely. About to start Elizabeth I by Margaret George. I got an advance finished copy; it's big, close to 700 pages. Lots of Liz to revel in

cw gortner · Post by **cw gortner** » Sun March 6th, 2011, 7:44 am

[quote=""Perdita""]Just started Heresy by SJ Parris. It's meant to be a bit like the Shardlake novels but this time set in Elizabethan times with Giordano Bruno as the hero. It's good so far

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I liked this one a lot. I'm looking forward to the next one, Prophecy.

SonjaMarie · Post by **SonjaMarie** » Sun March 6th, 2011, 6:09 pm

[quote=""cw gortner""]About to start Elizabeth I by Margaret George. I got an advance finished copy; it's big, close to 700 pages. Lots of Liz to revel in

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Envious! Hopefully it'll be a good book, you'll have to let us know!

SM

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Sun March 6th, 2011, 8:11 pm

Not quite sure what to pick up next, but I did just finish Lily Cigar by Tom Murphy. Starts in old New York and then on to San Francisco. Excellent rags to riches tale.

Stephanie Dray · Post by **Stephanie Dray** » Mon March 7th, 2011, 12:01 am

I'm reading CW Gortner's Confessions of Catherine De Medicci. And I'm totally digging the little touches of magic realism in her visions. But then, I would...

Divia · Post by **Divia** » Mon March 7th, 2011, 2:22 am

Wither its YA and the teen version of The Handmaid's tale. Enjoying it so far.