What Are You Reading? July 2012

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Wed July 4th, 2012, 8:55 am

Just started "Demelza" by Winston Graham.

fljustice · Post by **fljustice** » Wed July 4th, 2012, 5:47 pm

Finished Steven Saylor's The Seven Wonders and starting The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser.

Berengaria · Post by **Berengaria** » Thu July 5th, 2012, 1:38 am

I've got this book on my TBBought list!

Margaret · Post by **Margaret** » Thu July 5th, 2012, 2:38 am

About a third of the way through Anne Merton Abbey's Kathryn: In the Court of Six Queens. Abbey's writing style seems to me reminiscent of Anya Seton's.

sweetpotatoboy · Post by **sweetpotatoboy** » Thu July 5th, 2012, 10:58 am

Just started The Ground is Burning by Samuel Black. About Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli and Cesare Borgia...

EC2 · Post by **EC2** » Thu July 5th, 2012, 3:16 pm

Skimming The Secret Life of William Shakespeare by Jude Morgan. I started off loving this, but am struggling a bit now. The language is stunning and if you're a Shakespeare fan and adore literary fiction then this book will appeal very strongly I think.
To me though it's like very dark, very bitter chocolate or a powerful blue cheese. A little bit goes an awful long way and I think I've reached my limit. This is quality material, but too intensive for me personally. Don't let it put anyone else off - and the prose is still some of the best I have ever read in terms of use of descriptive language for things and emotions.

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Thu July 5th, 2012, 6:54 pm

Nancy Goldstone 'The Lady Queen'. A little dry at the moment.

princess garnet · Post by **princess garnet** » Fri July 6th, 2012, 1:06 am

Paris to the Past by Ina Caro (NF)

EC2 · Post by **EC2** » Fri July 6th, 2012, 4:37 pm

Well, I have so fallen off the cart. I have given up on Shakespeare and Jude Morgan's amazing prose and am now flying through some very non cerebral non HF at a rate of knots. Reading Cox by Kate Lace...

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Fri July 6th, 2012, 5:09 pm

[quote=""EC2""]Well, I have so fallen off the cart. I have given up on Shakespeare and Jude Morgan's amazing prose and am now flying through some very non cerebral non HF at a rate of knots. Reading Cox by Kate Lace...[/quote]

I'm pretty much to the point of staying far, far away from books labeled literary and praised for their gorgeous writing. I never can find a story, just lots of pretty words...

I've just finished a very forgettable Civil War romance and now starting Storm Over Windhaven by Marie de Jourlet (who is apparently IRL a male writer).