What are you reading? May 2011

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Tue May 17th, 2011, 9:11 am

[quote=""BrianPK""]I've watched a few of the old black and white Agatha Christie films on Sky recently and really enjoyed them. Wonderful old British actors on show, especially the marvellous Margaret Rutherford.
I haven't read Christie in years though.[/quote]

I think Murder Most Foul starring Margaret Rutherford is loosely -very loosely! - based on Mrs McGinty's Dead. I say very loosely as it's actually a Hercule Poirot mystery rather than a Miss Marple. However, I do enjoy the ones with Margaret Rutherford - I think she was great.

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Tue May 17th, 2011, 12:25 pm

I stayed up to the wee hours of the morning to finish Susanna Kearsley's The Winter Sea. Awesome book!

SonjaMarie · Post by **SonjaMarie** » Wed May 18th, 2011, 3:18 am

I've finished "Tutankhamun: The Last Secret" by Christian Jacq (342pgs, 2008)*. An interesting story, but I'm not sure I cared for the ending, it seemed a little lacking.

SM

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Wed May 18th, 2011, 1:18 pm

After reading and loving The Winter Sea,I decided to continue with the theme and read Barbara Erskine's Lady of Hay. I only got about 2 chapters in last night, but so far, so good.

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Wed May 18th, 2011, 3:00 pm

I read "Lady of Hay" years ago, and only yesterday bought the new 25th anniversary edition, which has a whole extra section specially added - it's a massive book! Is that the edition you've got?

sweetpotatoboy · Post by **sweetpotatoboy** » Wed May 18th, 2011, 3:17 pm

Still reading "A Game of Thrones" and will be for quite a while more; it's looong.
I also see it's the book most LibraryThing members are currently reading - not surprising, I guess, given the current TV adaptation.

MLE (Emily Cotton) · Post by **MLE (Emily Cotton)** » Wed May 18th, 2011, 6:07 pm

I'm chewing through Anya Seton's Green Darkness, which is proof that the same writer can produce brilliant works like Katherine and follow them with unadulterated tripe. The storyline lost me in the weird-Freudian muddle of the 60s. But finish it I must--my renaissance guild has just discovered it deals with the Browne family and Viscount Montagu, whose household we play.

SonjaMarie · Post by **SonjaMarie** » Wed May 18th, 2011, 6:53 pm

[quote=""MLE""]I'm chewing through Anya Seton's Green Darkness, which is proof that the same writer can produce brilliant works like Katherine and follow them with unadulterated tripe. The storyline lost me in the weird-Freudian muddle of the 60s. But finish it I must--my renaissance guild has just discovered it deals with the Browne family and Viscount Montagu, whose household we play.[/quote]

Glad I'm not the only one who really didn't like "Green Darkness", it was a yawn fest, I skimmed a lot.

SM

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Wed May 18th, 2011, 7:42 pm

[quote=""SonjaMarie""]Glad I'm not the only one who really didn't like "Green Darkness", it was a yawn fest, I skimmed a lot.

SM[/quote]

I don't recall being terribly fond of the present story. Especially being so 70's dated.

Michy · Post by **Michy** » Wed May 18th, 2011, 10:07 pm

[quote=""SonjaMarie""]Glad I'm not the only one who really didn't like "Green Darkness", it was a yawn fest, I skimmed a lot.

SM[/quote] Same here.

People generally cite it as one of their Seton favorites, but it was actually one of my least favorites of her books. Besides the Freudian stuff that MLE mentions, there were a couple of plot elements that really turned me off. To me it showed that her writing got coarser in her later years.