What Are You Reading? October 2012

fljustice · Post by **fljustice** » Tue October 9th, 2012, 2:38 pm

About half through with an ARC of Twelve Rooms of the Nile by Enid Shomer--a literary take on an imaginary meeting of Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert when they both cruised the Nile. Wonderful character development and no plot.

Berengaria · Post by **Berengaria** » Thu October 11th, 2012, 2:44 am

I am going to bed early so that I can finish my Sunne in Splendour I finished The Kingmaker's Daughter last night. Quite liked it as I have doubts about Richard's culpability in his nephews' deaths. Have to get reading in while I can.....new grand daughter is due in a few weeks! And I'm looking after an injured husband!

annis · Post by **annis** » Thu October 11th, 2012, 3:14 am

Poseidon's Spear by Christian Cameron-- ahhhh, yet another CC feast for the lover of historical adventure

MLE (Emily Cotton) · Post by **MLE (Emily Cotton)** » Thu October 11th, 2012, 3:58 am

Still on Hawk Quest -- unputdownable!

annis · Post by **annis** » Thu October 11th, 2012, 5:32 am

Posted by MLE

Still on Hawk Quest -- unputdownable!

I was seriously impressed with Hawkquest -- review here-- and hope the sequel Robert Lyndon is working on isn't 10 years in the making like HQ!

Enjoyed every minute of Poseidon's Spear - but dammit! What is it with the lack of copy-editing so rife in today's books, even ones produced by reputable publishers? Even Cameron's terrific storytelling can't stop me from gnashing my teeth when I encounter someone "sewing discord' ( though it is an intriguing image) and a few other similar bloopers are scattered through the story. To be fair, Poseidon's Spear is a very minor offender compared to some books I've read in recent times, but once you just never found this sort of mistake. Unfortunately it's rapidly becoming the norm. I find it unacceptable, but am I being unrealistic in expecting better? Perhaps I'm just a lone grumpy pedant crying for the good old days

emr · Post by **emr** » Thu October 11th, 2012, 7:10 am

I thought Hawk Quesr was great, only a little dry in the romance department. Poseidon's with problems? uh... maybe he's trying to do too much after all.
Currently reading Mistwalker by Denise Lopes Heald sf with 2 problems: a tiny font and.... well it's commendable that the author has invented a entire slang for this planet but I don't understand a word.... **frustrated.
And reading Slash And Burn by Colin Cotterill. I hope this is not the last Siri...

annis · Post by **annis** » Thu October 11th, 2012, 5:13 pm

Love Dr Siri

Cotterill has written a couple of novels in a new series set in Vietnam, but I haven't taken to them quite as much as the Dr Siri ones.

I wouldn't blame Cameron for the odd error in his book (and they may not even be errors he himself made) - it's up to his publisher to make sure that they don't appear in print. I still think a lot of these published mistakes are the result of just running scripts through spell-check rather than using a copy-editor. It just annoys me because it jolts me out of a story when I come across one of these bloopers.

Nefret · Post by **Nefret** » Fri October 12th, 2012, 3:56 am

Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Fri October 12th, 2012, 9:08 am

I'll be starting Quentins by Maeve Binchy tonight. A hopefully more pleasant tale than the somewhat sinister Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert!

Ludmilla · Post by **Ludmilla** » Fri October 12th, 2012, 11:17 am

[quote=""Nefret""]Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade[/quote]

I liked that one, Nefret.

I'm currently reading The Child Thief by Brom which is a dark reimagining of Peter Pan.