What Are You Reading? September 2011

Telynor · Post by **Telynor** » Thu September 8th, 2011, 6:15 pm

And ARC of Catherine the Great by Robert Massie.

javagirl · Post by **javagirl** » Fri September 9th, 2011, 3:29 am

[quote=""MLE""]Not my usual, but somebody who knows I like animal POVs gave me Dog On It, a contemporary crime novel that was downright hilarious.
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I loved Dog On It! Looking forward to the rest in the series. I remember smiling for weeks afterwards as I thought of it frequently.

Lynn

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Fri September 9th, 2011, 1:02 pm

Finished Time and Chance last night. I hadn't realized how much I had forgotten! I have all of these amazing books on my TBR pile, but I feel like I have to re-read all of these amazing books to really appreciate the new ones. Oy...onto EC's The Greatest Knight!

Random question: Where does For the King's Favor fit into the Henry II timeline? Close to his death? So after The Greatest Knight but before Devil's Brood? I'm a little confused!

EC2 · Post by **EC2** » Fri September 9th, 2011, 1:50 pm

[QUOTE
Random question: Where does For the King's Favor fit into the Henry II timeline? Close to his death? So after The Greatest Knight but before Devil's Brood? I'm a little confused![/QUOTE]

Brenna, it covers some of the same timeline as The Greatest Knight but seem from a different perspective. It covers the middle and latter years of Henry II, moving on into Richard's reign and the start of John's. It's about Ida de Tosney, Henry's mistress who followed on from Rosamund Clifford and then went on to marry Roger Bigod Earl of Norfolk. William Marshal turns up in Ida and Roger's story here and there.

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Fri September 9th, 2011, 5:29 pm

EC-That's helpful. I don't remember hearing anything about Ida before, but I'm learning as I'm rereading SKP's triology that I forgot a bunch! I'll read For the King's Favor once Rosamond kicks the bucket in Devils Brood then!

MLE (Emily Cotton) · Post by **MLE (Emily Cotton)** » Fri September 9th, 2011, 7:04 pm

Thanks to mr. Kindle, I am now reading War Horse.

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Fri September 9th, 2011, 8:09 pm

Going to be starting The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak later today.

george3 · Post by **george3** » Sat September 10th, 2011, 12:19 am

Just started 'Roma' by Steven Saylor.

javagirl · Post by **javagirl** » Sat September 10th, 2011, 3:58 am

I've recently finished The Time of Singing and My Name is Mary Sutter. Both very good. I'm still working on Shogun - a little over half way now.

Nefret · Post by **Nefret** » Sat September 10th, 2011, 5:05 am

[quote=""george3""]Just started 'Roma' by Steven Saylor.[/quote]

I've wanted to read that for a long time. Let me know how it is, please.