What Are You Reading? January 2012

Tanzanite · Post by **Tanzanite** » Wed January 4th, 2012, 10:47 pm

I've been reading Fortune Made His Sword by Martha Rofheart (an OOP about Henry V).

TiciaRoma · Post by **TiciaRoma** » Thu January 5th, 2012, 3:38 am

EC's The Scarlet Lion. The audible version. This is a re-read for me, but made good listening on our 1500 mile trip back from our Christmas vacation.

MLE (Emily Cotton) · Post by **MLE (Emily Cotton)** » Thu January 5th, 2012, 4:50 am

a memoir, Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck. It's set in 1966, which I refuse to call historical. But good.

emr · Post by **emr** » Thu January 5th, 2012, 10:39 am

A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths, the new Ruth Galloway mystery.

annis · Post by **annis** » Thu January 5th, 2012, 4:15 pm

I didn't now there was a new Elly Griffiths out- must hunt it down. I've enjoyed the others in the Ruth Galloway series.

Currently reading the latest in another of my favourite series- I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, the newest Flavia de Luce mystery from Alan Bradley. These are utterly eccentric but quite brilliant, with their precociously smart yet touchingly vulnerable young heroine.

lauragill · Post by **lauragill** » Thu January 5th, 2012, 6:05 pm

Russka by Edward Rutherford. It's not as good as Sarum or London.

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Fri January 6th, 2012, 9:46 am

[quote=""annis""]I didn't now there was a new Elly Griffiths out- must hunt it down. I've enjoyed the others in the Ruth Galloway series.

Currently reading the latest in another of my favourite series- I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, the newest Flavia de Luce mystery from Alan Bradley. These are utterly eccentric but quite brilliant, with their precociously smart yet touchingly vulnerable young heroine.[/quote]

I like Elly Griffiths's books, I think the new one has only just come out in hb.

I've also just bought the first two Flavia de Luce books, I've heard they're very good.

LoobyG · Post by **LoobyG** » Fri January 6th, 2012, 10:00 am

Now on 'Shadow of the Titanic - the extraordinary stories of those who survived' by Andrew Wilson

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Fri January 6th, 2012, 1:49 pm

So I finished Ian Mortimer's The Greatest Traitor and I have to ask those who know way more than I do about Edward II. Did he really "survive" during Roger's reign and then die by his son's hand? Is this commonly believed or did I. Mortimer go out on a limb? And is there really evidence that the Queen had a child by R. Mortimer? The evidence suggested in the book was not very convincing to me.

boswellbaxter · Post by **boswellbaxter** » Fri January 6th, 2012, 3:08 pm

[quote=""Brenna""]So I finished Ian Mortimer's The Greatest Traitor and I have to ask those who know way more than I do about Edward II. Did he really "survive" during Roger's reign and then die by his son's hand? Is this commonly believed or did I. Mortimer go out on a limb? And is there really evidence that the Queen had a child by R. Mortimer? The evidence suggested in the book was not very convincing to me.[/quote]

Paul Doherty and Alison Weir have also argued for the survival theory but I'm not convinced of it. I'm not as current on Edward II scholarship as I used to be, but I think both Roy Haines and Seymour Phillips, Edward II's major biographers, believe that he died at Berkeley Castle. (On the other hand, a friend of mine who has studied Edward II's reign in depth believes that Mortimer makes a very good case.) As for the child, I don't believe there is any hard evidence of this.