What Are You Reading? January 2013

Helen_Davis · Post by **Helen_Davis** » Sat February 2nd, 2013, 3:56 am

Helen of Troy by Margaret George(I know I'm in the minority, but I love it and this is my third read!) and The Woman with the Whip by Mary Main.

annis · Post by **annis** » Sat February 2nd, 2013, 5:04 am

Alternating more hard-boiled Adrian McKinty (with whom I'm currently having a love affair

) As Dead I Well May Be, with another of Margaret Elphinstone's vividly immediate and evocative novels, The Gathering Night, which is set in Mesolithic Scotland. It takes as its starting point a massive tsunami around 6100 BCE caused by the Storegga Slide, which separated Britain from Europe.

Ludmilla · Post by **Ludmilla** » Sat February 2nd, 2013, 5:08 pm

[quote=""annis""]Alternating more hard-boiled Adrian McKinty (with whom I'm currently having a love affair

) As Dead I Well May Be, with another of Margaret Elphinstone's vividly immediate and evocative novels, The Gathering Night, which is set in Mesolithic Scotland. It takes as its starting point a massive tsunami around 6100 BCE caused by the Storegga Slide, which separated Britain from Europe.[/quote]

Interesting. Stephen Baxter's Stone Spring (book one of a timesweep trilogy) deals with the same event, reimagining how civilizations would have developed if Doggerland (the land bridge between Britain and Europe) had been saved from the encroaching sea.

I finished John Green's young adult novel, The Fault in Our Stars, a few days ago. I'm a bit worn out and still deciding what to read next. Maybe Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea.

annis · Post by **annis** » Sun February 3rd, 2013, 12:58 am

I must check out the Stephen Baxter - I've read others of his alternate histories like the Time's Tapestry series and enjoyed them.

I vaguely knew about the tsunami, but I hadn't realised a whole chunk of land linking Scotland to Denmark had been destroyed at the same time until I read thisarticle in the Daily Mail last year. Apparently Doggerland would have provided significant fertile hunting grounds for prehistoric groups.

Nefret · Post by **Nefret** » Sun February 3rd, 2013, 1:58 am

Shadow of the King by Helen Hollick

SonjaMarie · Post by **SonjaMarie** » Fri February 8th, 2013, 3:29 am

Late posting:
January 2013 18
"Demon Ex Machina: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom #5" by Julie Kenner (309pgs, 2009) (1/5)
"Egypt: The Book of Chaos - Rahotep Mystery #3" by Nick Drake (334pgs, 2011) (1/7) - Last book in the series, I believe, wasn't the way I would've wanted it to end, but if I say anything more I'd spoiler it for others.
"London's Blue Plaques In A Nutshell" by Bill McCann (691pgs, 2011) (1/12)* (K) - DNBW (Do Not Bother With) Haphazardly put together, years got typed wrong, too many typos.
"Amorous Appetites: A History of Sex and Food" by Aine Collier (207pgs, 2011) (1/14)* (K) - DNBW - Badly put together, to many mistakes to mention, waste of money!
"The Jesuit & the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search For Peking Man" by Amir D. Aczel (258pgs, 2007) (1/16)*
"Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World" by Beatrice K. Otto (310pgs, 2001orig, 2007pb) (1/16)*
"Edward VI (Yale English Monarchs)" by Jennifer Loach (ed. together by George Bernard & Penry Williams after her death) (216pgs, 1999) (1/17)*
"The Fortune Hunter: A German Prince in Regency England" by Peter James Bowman (204pgs, 2011) (1/21)* (K)
"Six Thousand Years of Bread - It's Holy and Unholy History" by H.E. Jacob (392pgs, 1944orig, 2007ed) (1/21)
"In Destiny's Hands: Five Tragic Rulers, Children of Maria Theresa" by Justin C. Vovk (405pgs, 2010) (1/24)* (K)
"The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England" by Ian Mortimer (379pgs, 2012) (1/24)*
"Eva Peron: A Biography" by Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, trans. Shawn Fields (321pgs, 1996) (1/26)*
"When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians" by Patricia Anderson (164pgs, 1995) (1/26)*
"Feint of Art: An Annie Kincaid Mystery #1" by Hailey Lind (328pgs, 2006) (1/29)
"The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters" by Anne De Courcy (465pgs, 2000orig, 2009ed) (1/29)*
"Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage" by Stephanie Coontz (313pgs, 2005) (1/30)*
"Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency" by Saul David (518pgs, 2012) (1/30)* (K)
"Color of Death" by Elizabeth Lowell (411pgs, 2004) (1/30)
Pages: 6225 - 345pgs aver. (5 BF, 13 Own (5 Kindle))

SM

Nefret · Post by **Nefret** » Fri February 8th, 2013, 8:40 pm

Decided to take a small break from the Saxons.

Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman

annis · Post by **annis** » Fri February 8th, 2013, 11:12 pm

Taking a break from HF with The Rosie Project, a delightful, screwball contemporary romance.

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Sat February 9th, 2013, 11:47 am

Someone I know has just read The Rosie Project - she's put a review on Goodreads. She very much enjoyed it.

wendy · Post by **wendy** » Sat February 16th, 2013, 3:54 pm

I'm probably the only one here who hasn't read this yet - but I'm enjoying OUTLANDER