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Kurben

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I've got mail!!! 4 books and i feel that i'm gonna love them all. Firstly i got Gwendys Button Box (had to have it. I'm usually faithful to my bookstore but they are not selling it!), then The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. LeGuin. She is many things but she is never ever boring. Often there is not so much action with sword and things in her books, the conflicts that drives the stories are often internal or clashes between cultures or generations and their different way of looking at life in general or more specific subjects like time, sex, politics. If ever a SF-writer is gonna win the Nobel i want it to be her. Third The Kings General by du Maurier. A historical novel from the 17,th century. She can write and it was cheap and i have liked what i read so far from her. The fourth book was In Search Of The Dark Ages by Michael Wood. It starts with the Roman invasion and Boadiceas rebellion in the year 60 and ends with 1066. A period that is a bit hazy to me. It will be nice to be able to place Offa, Alfred, Athelstan and Ethelred in their right context finally. I know some names and some years but is sadly lacking the general framework to fit them in. This book looks very promising.
Where shall i start!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Kurben said:
I've got mail!!! 4 books and i feel that i'm gonna love them all. Firstly i got Gwendys Button Box (had to have it. I'm usually faithful to my bookstore but they are not selling it!), then The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. LeGuin. She is many things but she is never ever boring. Often there is not so much action with sword and things in her books, the conflicts that drives the stories are often internal or clashes between cultures or generations and their different way of looking at life in general or more specific subjects like time, sex, politics. If ever a SF-writer is gonna win the Nobel i want it to be her. Third The Kings General by du Maurier. A historical novel from the 17,th century. She can write and it was cheap and i have liked what i read so far from her. The fourth book was In Search Of The Dark Ages by Michael Wood. It starts with the Roman invasion and Boadiceas rebellion in the year 60 and ends with 1066. A period that is a bit hazy to me. It will be nice to be able to place Offa, Alfred, Athelstan and Ethelred in their right context finally. I know some names and some years but is sadly lacking the general framework to fit them in. This book looks very promising.
Where shall i start!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Gwendy's- a short read and enjoyable.
 
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Spideyman said:
Hope you enjoyed it. In Search of Dark Ages sound interesting. Just found it in ebook. Might give it a try.
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I was thinking that sounded like a good book, too!

I'm reading Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey. Tudor history is interesting. The title is a bit gossip rag, but I'm interested to see if the author sticks to facts as much as possible.
 
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Sigmund said:
I'm reading the book, Sh*tty Mom and it's pretty funny. Discussing a single Mom with human kids and a *Mom* with dog children, don't try to compete. Dog Mom will always win.

"You'll never know as much about your kid as she knows about her dog especially after your kid gets his driver's license"

Remember:"Dog" spelled backwards is "God" . And "kid" spelled backward is "dik".

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(I need to read this book!!)
 
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I just started a Kindle sample of The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. I read Kindred a while back and liked it so I wanted to delve into what Butler is really known for, science/speculative fiction. I believe it was MadamMack who recently posted about Butler and was the impetus for me to read more of her. So far I am really liking this dystopian tale. The main character is hyperempathetic and since I have always considered myself to be an empath I am loving this aspect of the story. The novel also deals with religion and the title is taken from one of Jesus' parables, which just happened to be the Gospel reading at church last Sunday. I thought it was fate that I should read this now.
 
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carrie's younger brother said:
I just started a Kindle sample of The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. I read Kindred a while back and liked it so I wanted to delve into what Butler is really known for, science/speculative fiction. I believe it was MadamMack who recently posted about Butler and was the impetus for me to read more of her. So far I am really liking this dystopian tale. The main character is hyperempathetic and since I have always considered myself to be an empath I am loving this aspect of the story. The novel also deals with religion and the title is taken from one of Jesus' parables, which just happened to be the Gospel reading at church last Sunday. I thought it was fate that I should read this now.
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Sure sounds like all the stars aligning that you read this book.
 
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Finished Gwendys! Great little story. Had forgotten the cozy feeling of sinking in a story that King often manages to bring to his work. Havent read any King since i finished End Of Watch. Made me remember what a good writer he is all over.
 
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Started reading The Sins of the Fathers by Lawrence Block. It's the first book of his series featuring Matthew Scudder, a hard-drinking unlicensed private investigator. So far, I'm hooked. Block's prose is terse, vulgar, and without frills; he paints a vivid (and quite nasty) picture of 1970s Manhattan as Scudder surveys the underworld, looking for answers about the death of a runaway daughter.
 
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skimom2 said:
I was thinking that sounded like a good book, too!

I'm reading Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey. Tudor history is interesting. The title is a bit gossip rag, but I'm interested to see if the author sticks to facts as much as possible.
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Yes it sounds interesting. He tells the story in chronological order but has named the chapters after important british persons of that timeperiod. The roman period is named Boadicea, the period after the romans left Arthur (a bit questionable since no sources remotely close to the time mentions an Arthur ( i think the first to mention arthur by name is Nennius about 900 AD i think but he surely know more) but it is a popular history even if it is a scholarly intent behind so i understand why he thought he couldn't just skip Arthur). The other chapters are wellknown Anglosaxon kings, Offa for the 8,th century, Alfred for 9,th, Athelstan for the 10,th and Ethelred for the 11,th until the invasion in 1066. He finishes his story with a chapter named after The Conqueror. The only period that isnt named after a person is the period 600-ca 750 which is called The Sutton Hoo Man which is a worldknown archaological find of he biggest importance. He mentions in a foreword (the only part i read so far) that hes gonna use the sources like Gildas, Bede, Nennius and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle plus other chronicles and charters and other types of sources(among them archaeology) at their proper place.
Is Crown of Blood worth reading? I looked at it but reacted at the title which was a bit gossipy.
 
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