What Are You Reading? January 2012

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Sat January 21st, 2012, 6:49 pm

[quote=""Brenna""]In addition to reading the 2nd Nigel Tranter Bruce book (upstairs read), I'm reading Watermark by Vanitha Sankaran. Good read![/quote]

Loved Watermark! Very different and so interesting!

annis · Post by **annis** » Sat January 21st, 2012, 7:06 pm

The God of War by Christian Cameron. The "true" story of Alexander the Great as told by astute and canny Ptolemy, the great survivor (as far as I can remember, the only one of Alexander's intimate companions and great generals who managed to die of old age). Ptolemy did in fact write a long-lost history of Alexander's campaigns said to have been notable for its objectivity and lack of hagiography, and this is no doubt the inspiration for Cameron's novel. He captures Polemy's voice perfectly - tough, shrewd, genuinely congenial and likable, but ruthlessly pragmatic and not above a spot of self-aggrandizement.

I like the tie-in to the Tyrant series as well- a nice touch.

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Sat January 21st, 2012, 9:04 pm

[quote=""Susan""]Loved Watermark! Very different and so interesting![/quote]

Apparently I loved it too because I started it last night and finished it this afternoon! It was very different and the story just flowed so well!

Tanzanite · Post by **Tanzanite** » Sat January 21st, 2012, 10:14 pm

Recently finished At the Mercy of the Queen (Anne Barnhill about Anne Boleyn) and Fortune Made His Sword (Martha Rofheart about Henry V) and now reading a bio on Henry V by Christopher Allmand. It may be a little too scholarly for me - parts of it are pretty dry and hard to get through.

Nefret · Post by **Nefret** » Mon January 23rd, 2012, 3:46 am

The Light Bearer by Donna Gillespie

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Mon January 23rd, 2012, 10:01 am

I've just started "Before I go to Sleep" by S J Watson.

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Mon January 23rd, 2012, 9:41 pm

Having finished the wonderful and magical Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, I'm going to start The Ingenious Edgar Jones by Elizabeth Garner.

Nefret · Post by **Nefret** » Tue January 24th, 2012, 2:51 am

Emma by Jane Austen (since I just saw one of the movies)

SCW · Post by **SCW** » Tue January 24th, 2012, 9:32 am

Just 'skimmed' through Those In Peril by Wilbur Smith. It was a present from "santa' and I must have been very naughty last year to have been given this.
Now I am reading Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder....

princess garnet · Post by **princess garnet** » Wed January 25th, 2012, 1:25 am

Brief Gaudy Hour by Margaret Campbell Barnes