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Kurben

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I'm in a factbook mood right now. I have Finished the Plantagenets by Dan Jones and The Winter King (about Henry VII) and decided to shift to France for a while. Have read the Carolingians (Great book), The Capetians (cover the time 987-1328) and Wise and Foolish Kings (about the first house of Valois 1328-1498) Now i'm starting Renaissance France by Rubert Knecht about the second house of Valois. They go on to about 1590 when the Bourbons enter the stage.
 

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I'm reading Ray Bradbury's short story collection I Sing the Body Electric. I've read a few of these stories before but not in many, many years. What an absolute treasure it is to read Bradbury now that I am older and can really appreciate his writing. Oh man, what he does with words! The Haunting of the New is my favorite "haunted house" story now. I'd never read this before. It's just wonderful.
 
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I'm reading Ray Bradbury's short story collection I Sing the Body Electric. I've read a few of these stories before but not in many, many years. What an absolute treasure it is to read Bradbury now that I am older and can really appreciate his writing. Oh man, what he does with words! The Haunting of the New is my favorite "haunted house" story now. I'd never read this before. It's just wonderful.

I read I Sing the Body Electric a million years ago too. You've made me want to read it again :) I hope it's on kindle :)
 

skimom2

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I'm in a factbook mood right now. I have Finished the Plantagenets by Dan Jones and The Winter King (about Henry VII) and decided to shift to France for a while. Have read the Carolingians (Great book), The Capetians (cover the time 987-1328) and Wise and Foolish Kings (about the first house of Valois 1328-1498) Now i'm starting Renaissance France by Rubert Knecht about the second house of Valois. They go on to about 1590 when the Bourbons enter the stage.
Have you read Crown of Blood yet? I keep thinking about it when I see it at the library. Lady Jane Grey fascinates me, and this book supposedly have a different take on the story of the "Nine-Days Queen".
 

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I OD'd on Stephen King books this weekend after taking a long break from them. I was house-sitting for my parents, and it was dark and gloomy and lonely for four days, and I binge-read "Revival." A WONDERFUL book, but it took my mind to a bleak place for awhile after it was over, so I had to chase it with something else quickly. I've since blasted through 3/4 of "Needful Things," and I am loving it.
 

Kurben

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I came down after reading a lot of historybooks for a while and started to reread my favourite Narniabooks. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and The Horse and His Boy. I read on the backside that they were suitable for children between 8 and 13 and instantly wondered whats wrong with me cause i still like 'em? I guess i'm just a very childish man..... . But, as i always say, you have not really grown up unless you still that childish streak in you.
 

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I came down after reading a lot of historybooks for a while and started to reread my favourite Narniabooks. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and The Horse and His Boy. I read on the backside that they were suitable for children between 8 and 13 and instantly wondered whats wrong with me cause i still like 'em? I guess i'm just a very childish man..... . But, as i always say, you have not really grown up unless you still that childish streak in you.
Nah, nothing's wrong with you! I think the books we read in our foundation-building years are the most important. They never leave us. I know I have a collection of "young adult" books that I happily reread once in awhile, mostly ones that I fell in love with in the middle school years. :)
 

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I came down after reading a lot of historybooks for a while and started to reread my favourite Narniabooks. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and The Horse and His Boy. I read on the backside that they were suitable for children between 8 and 13 and instantly wondered whats wrong with me cause i still like 'em? I guess i'm just a very childish man..... . But, as i always say, you have not really grown up unless you still that childish streak in you.
Noooooo, please don't feel that way! I reread all my favorites from my childhood and YA years. I still read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at least once every other year. I personally think the Narnia books are for all ages and they get better with age.
 

Kurben

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Noooooo, please don't feel that way! I reread all my favorites from my childhood and YA years. I still read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at least once every other year. I personally think the Narnia books are for all ages and they get better with age.
So do i. Don't worry! I don't really feel that way. It was just a thought that passed through my head when i read the backside of my edition. An old one (printed 1955 in the UK). Then they did not seem to be aware that people of all ages would read the books. They seem to think that its strictly a child-youth book and nothing more.
 

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So do i. Don't worry! I don't really feel that way. It was just a thought that passed through my head when i read the backside of my edition. An old one (printed 1955 in the UK). Then they did not seem to be aware that people of all ages would read the books. They seem to think that its strictly a child-youth book and nothing more.
1955 is when the next to last of the series (The Magician's Nephew) was published. Very interesting as to how they were marketed then as compared to now.
 

Kurben

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1955 is when the next to last of the series (The Magician's Nephew) was published. Very interesting as to how they were marketed then as compared to now.
I slightly misled you. What i have is a box edition in pocket containing all 7 novels published in 1963. Rather worn they are but i love it. Got it from my father a long time ago. But still the same kid marketing stuff on the backsides.
 

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About 400 pages in to IT, but took a break to read You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris. The book is his response to the attack in France in November, 2015, that killed his wife. Short but powerful narrative. Narvic, I thought of you when I read it.
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