01-24-2011, 06:25 PM | #7981 |
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01-24-2011, 06:40 PM | #7982 |
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So I've decided to read some future historical fiction with The Eugenics Wars by Greg Cox. Can't believe I took so long to finally get down to reading them!
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01-25-2011, 01:43 AM | #7983 |
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I just finished "Bequest" by A K Shevchenko. Many reviews describe it as a thriller or political-thriller, to me it was simply a mystery. The story was based on a legend of Cossack gold left in the Bank of England to be claimed when Ukraine was again independent. Curiously enough the parts looking back at events over the 300 year history of the bequest were clear enough, it was the switching back and forth between two or three threads of "now" that at times had me confused.
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01-25-2011, 02:26 AM | #7984 |
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Been really sick the past several days, but finished and finally reviewed "Alison Wonderland!"
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01-25-2011, 04:47 AM | #7985 |
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Finished reading Shakespeare's Will, by Meredith Whitford. Powerful and moving historical fiction, about his colourful life, marriage and infidelities, seen both through his eyes and those of his long-suffering loyal wife, Anne Hathaway. Richly filled with descriptions of the political intrigues and hazards of living in Elizabethan England. Meredith's sophisticated use of language, appropriate to the period, is most impressive. I can't wait to read another of her first-rate books.
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01-25-2011, 10:40 AM | #7986 | |
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01-25-2011, 10:45 AM | #7987 |
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I'm reading And Quiet Flows the Don by Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. It's long.
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01-25-2011, 10:55 AM | #7988 | |
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01-25-2011, 11:07 AM | #7989 |
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Actually, there is as much that IS known about the bard as almost any other person of that time. He was, however, a playwright, and no one would have guessed that his fame would extend past these many centuries. "Will in the World" was a good book that documented Shakespeare's life as well as any I've read. Peter Ackroyd had a more recent book, I believe that garnered even better reviews, but which I have not read. The scuttlebutt that continues about a lack of hard information was propagated by those who felt a non-aristocrat simply did not have the skill nor the "brains" to write as well as he did. Of course we have a raft of people held up as the actual author, the best known of which was Francis Bacon. All poppycock. Give the Shakespeare bios a chance. You won't be disappointed with "Will in the World," and the others probably are also good.
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01-25-2011, 02:07 PM | #7991 |
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Finished "Faithless" by Karin Slaughter and have started "Fractured" by the same author. After that I think my palate would be ready for some great sci-fi again.
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01-25-2011, 03:17 PM | #7993 |
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Reading Ghastly Glass (second in the Renaissance series by Joyce and Jim Lavene). Right now, the only thing I'm thinking about it is that old Hee Haw song, "If it weren't for bad luck, she'd have no luck at all.". Her boyfriend keeps catching her in compromising positions, and they keep stumbling over dead bodies. I am liking the contrast between the world of the permanent "faire" they work at/ live at part time, and the "real world". You can tell the difference too, between those who live at the faire site all the time and immerse themselves completely in it, and those who come in and work only part of the time.
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01-25-2011, 03:42 PM | #7995 |
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Just finished The Company by KJ Parker. I'm not completely sure what to think about it, nothing really big happened throughout the story but I found it hard to put down nonetheless. It was also a little bit predictable. Well, not the ending.
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Now starting Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince. Man, those HP pbooks sure are thick. My hands will be aching this time tomorrow |
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