Most recent books you bought.

[JBCrowson]

Anna Karenina, loving it, had forgotten how much I love 19th C russian lit. Downside is I feel his sentence structures bleeding into mine when I try to work on my own book. Kind of like chopping hot chilli-peppers then using the same knife and cutting board to slice bread, and wondering why your sandwich burns your mouth.

 

[xena]

Just bought My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

 

[Gurkhal]

First three books in the Sharpe series as well as "The Labyrinth" by Jens Baggesen from Oxford' World Classics.

 

[The Dark One]

Sharpe is brilliant. Cornwell is the absolute doyen of historical novelists. I've read the entire series about 10 times - not joking.

 

[Karlin]

I am reading Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Great Artists, an abridged version. I bought it a while back. This is background for a planned (dreamed of?) Michelangelo time travel novel. I need to get a decent modern biography of Michelangelo as well, and should read some of his own writings...

 

[Demesnedenoir]

Winds of Winter! Just kidding. It's actually Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind.

 

[Mad Swede]

Just awaiting delivery of the three books by Michael Scott Rohan that I don't already have. Finding them has been a little difficult given that they're out of print.

 

[Gurkhal]

Sharpe is brilliant. Cornwell is the absolute doyen of historical novelists. I've read the entire series about 10 times - not joking.

I agree. What he's written never disappoint me although sometimes I wish he could write a little more, even while he has written a lot and its excellent.

A personal wish from me is that he would write a series set in the English Civil War and one in the Crimean War, might be simple duology or trilogy for the Crimean War but he could probably make a full series of the English Civil War.

Although again I will say that I am very satisfied with all the excellent books he has written as it is.

 

[The Dark One]

I agree. What he's written never disappoint me although sometimes I wish he could write a little more, even while he has written a lot and its excellent.

A personal wish from me is that he would write a series set in the English Civil War and one in the Crimean War, might be simple duology or trilogy for the Crimean War but he could probably make a full series of the English Civil War.

Although again I will say that I am very satisfied with all the excellent books he has written as it is.

I doubt he'll be doing too much more. He's getting on and his last two efforts were pretty dreadful.

For what he's done though, he remains a colossus.

 

[CupofJoe]

Gaslands Refuelled - Not fiction. It's a table top game which is a sort of mix of Mad Max, Battle Cars and Saturday Night TV.
You [and your friends] get to control Mad Max style Cars, Trucks [etc] in a televised battle.
Only getting to grips with the rules, but they do suggest obtaining and customising Hotwheels/ Matchbox cars [or anything about 1:64 scale] as an added layer. As if I needed a reason to do that...

 

[Karlin]

Two books about / authored by Michelangelo:

Michelangelo , Life, Letters and Poetry
Poems and Letters

I'm hoping to get insight into his thinking and feelings. Research for a future novel...

 

[The Dark One]

Michelangelo invented the pizza oven.

 

[skip.knox]

Bought an e-book of The Once and Future King, by T.H. White. It's one of my most favorite books. I've read it twice, including once out loud, but it's been many years and I'm enjoying a return to it even more. The writing is a joy.

 

[Demesnedenoir]

Been a long, long time in a galaxy not so far away since I read that.

Bought an e-book of The Once and Future King, by T.H. White. It's one of my most favorite books. I've read it twice, including once out loud, but it's been many years and I'm enjoying a return to it even more. The writing is a joy.

 

[skip.knox]

You might consider giving it a look, especially from an author's perspective. He pulls off a number of tricks in voice and perspective that might have impressed Merlin himself. Not to mention the sheer fun of the first volume. Of course, that only sets us up for the incredible sadness of what must follow.

My plan is to read all three volumes, then go watch The Sword in the Stone, followed immediately by Camelot.

 

[The Dark One]

In short there's simply not...

 

[Lillith_Sorvalen]

Space-Time Structure
by Erwin Schrödinger

(Please forgive any spelling or grammar issues—I have hand tremors, but I love being part of the conversation!)

 

[Gurkhal]

Got myself two more books which I've been eyeing for a time".

"Kvinnor i fält 1550-1850" and "När vinden vänder"

The first is about women in, or more accurately around, the Swedish army in the period of 1550-1850 such has wives, merchants, various camp followers and so on who accompanied the army in the field hence the name which is translated into English as "Women in the field".

While the seconds is a study, as I've understood it, about two noblewomen from Scania during the 19th century and its social upheavals.

 

[skip.knox]

I'm always a sucker for histories of the common folk, regardless of gender, The nobility are, for the most part, boring.