Oooh, I like fairy tale novels.
Now... Heretic by Bernard Cornwell
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What Are You Reading? January 2013
- Nefret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2977
- Joined: February 2009
- Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
- Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
- Location: Temple of Isis
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Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
The Snow Child was one of my best reads of 2011 - read it just at the end of the year.
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4243
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
The Snow Child is my next read. I enjoy fairytales and retellings of legends.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4243
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
I've just started The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- sweetpotatoboy
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1641
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: London, UK
I have to admit I started reading 50 Shades of Grey and think I'm going to bail at about page 90. When I broke my foot a few months ago, a friend dropped me round her copies of all three books (goodness knows why). Anyway, I had a little window, so I thought I'd dip in and see what all the fuss is about. I don't really have the stomach to go much further...
[quote=""sweetpotatoboy""]I have to admit I started reading 50 Shades of Grey and think I'm going to bail at about page 90. When I broke my foot a few months ago, a friend dropped me round her copies of all three books (goodness knows why). Anyway, I had a little window, so I thought I'd dip in and see what all the fuss is about. I don't really have the stomach to go much further...[/quote]
It was obviously a triumph of hype over content and of a book being in the right place at the right time and marketed very cleverly indeed. I thought it was very second rate and in no way a ground breaker. This sort of material has been around for ever and far better written. I have a dear friend who has been writing erotic fiction for Black Lace and others for more than 20 years and her content and quality of writing, while being commercial is streets ahead of this bilge. She finally got her break on the tails of the Fifty Shades books. Her own latest novel entered the Sunday Times Bestseller lists as FS sales began to die off. At least she's earning some good income from it and perhaps picking up more readers. People say that cream rises to the top, but sometimes the crap does too!
Edited to say I'm still busy with John Guy's biography of Thomas Becket - takes me longer to read non fiction than fiction.
It was obviously a triumph of hype over content and of a book being in the right place at the right time and marketed very cleverly indeed. I thought it was very second rate and in no way a ground breaker. This sort of material has been around for ever and far better written. I have a dear friend who has been writing erotic fiction for Black Lace and others for more than 20 years and her content and quality of writing, while being commercial is streets ahead of this bilge. She finally got her break on the tails of the Fifty Shades books. Her own latest novel entered the Sunday Times Bestseller lists as FS sales began to die off. At least she's earning some good income from it and perhaps picking up more readers. People say that cream rises to the top, but sometimes the crap does too!
Edited to say I'm still busy with John Guy's biography of Thomas Becket - takes me longer to read non fiction than fiction.
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
- Lisa
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1153
- Joined: August 2012
- Favourite HF book: Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
- Preferred HF: Any time period/location. Timeslip, usually prefer female POV. Also love Gothic melodrama.
- Location: Northeast Scotland
[quote=""EC2""]bilge[/quote]
That's an amazing word!
I admit I had to look it up. As always, Urban Dictionary has some other entries for it, but I really, really hope you meant this:
That's an amazing word!
I admit I had to look it up. As always, Urban Dictionary has some other entries for it, but I really, really hope you meant this:
Wikipedia wrote:The bilge is the lowest compartment on a ship, below the waterline, where the two sides meet at the keel. The word was coined in 1513. The word is sometimes also used to describe the water that collects in this area.