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What Are You Reading? Part Deux
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Absolutely!! A sound rule for any regent is: Kill your uncles before they kill you!!
I think its the fact that they have to live with their brother getting all the attention and power as a king, and that makes them greatly resent them and thier kin.
Here is a list of the CD ebooks on sale, Dana Jean All are .99 except the 2 I noted.
Picking the Bones....Brian Hodge
Torn....Lee Thomas
Night Thirst...Patrick Whalen
The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book ($1.99)
Weak and Wounded...Brian James Freeman
Invisible Fences...Norman Prentiss (FREE)
Slippin' Into Darkness...Norman Partridge
Lilja's Library The World of Stephen King
The Influence....Bentley Little
The Circle...Bentley Little
The Revelation...Bentley Little
Kinsman...Bill Pronzini
Femme...Bill Pronzini
The Sleepless...Graham Masterton
Cemetery Dance Select...Kealan Patrick Burke
Cemetery Dance Select....Bev Vincent
Issue 61 of CD Magazine
The Book of Baby Names...Norman Prentiss
Apocalypse a Day Calendar vol 1...Norman Prentiss
Apocalypse a Day Calendar vol 2...Norman Prentiss
Widow's Point...Richard Chizmar, Billy Chizmar
The Long Way Home...Richard Chizmar
Picking the Bones....Brian Hodge
Torn....Lee Thomas
Night Thirst...Patrick Whalen
The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book ($1.99)
Weak and Wounded...Brian James Freeman
Invisible Fences...Norman Prentiss (FREE)
Slippin' Into Darkness...Norman Partridge
Lilja's Library The World of Stephen King
The Influence....Bentley Little
The Circle...Bentley Little
The Revelation...Bentley Little
Kinsman...Bill Pronzini
Femme...Bill Pronzini
The Sleepless...Graham Masterton
Cemetery Dance Select...Kealan Patrick Burke
Cemetery Dance Select....Bev Vincent
Issue 61 of CD Magazine
The Book of Baby Names...Norman Prentiss
Apocalypse a Day Calendar vol 1...Norman Prentiss
Apocalypse a Day Calendar vol 2...Norman Prentiss
Widow's Point...Richard Chizmar, Billy Chizmar
The Long Way Home...Richard Chizmar
Well, in this specific case it had to do with religion. The people of sweden didn't like their king to force them to his beliefs. If he had been a bit more diplomatic about beliefs they probably would have tolerated him but nothing doing. So they kicked him out. Karl, the uncle, didn't really have to do much rallying of the masses. The nephew had done a very good job of antagonizing them all by himself.
Sound exactly like what happenned with King Charles of England, Parliament rebelled against him once they found out he was thinking about accepting Catholicism.
Thanks Cat! I read many of these for my Year of Cemetery Dance thread, but I do see some new ones!Here is a list of the CD ebooks on sale, Dana Jean All are .99 except the 2 I noted.
Picking the Bones....Brian Hodge
Torn....Lee Thomas
Night Thirst...Patrick Whalen
The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book ($1.99)
Weak and Wounded...Brian James Freeman
Invisible Fences...Norman Prentiss (FREE)
Slippin' Into Darkness...Norman Partridge
Lilja's Library The World of Stephen King
The Influence....Bentley Little
The Circle...Bentley Little
The Revelation...Bentley Little
Kinsman...Bill Pronzini
Femme...Bill Pronzini
The Sleepless...Graham Masterton
Cemetery Dance Select...Kealan Patrick Burke
Cemetery Dance Select....Bev Vincent
Issue 61 of CD Magazine
The Book of Baby Names...Norman Prentiss
Apocalypse a Day Calendar vol 1...Norman Prentiss
Apocalypse a Day Calendar vol 2...Norman Prentiss
Widow's Point...Richard Chizmar, Billy Chizmar
The Long Way Home...Richard Chizmar
Close but not quite. The people was ready to tolerate a catholic king but not a catholic king that demanded that they should become catholics too.. And the church of england is really not far from catholicism, at least not in the beginning. For Henry VIII the important thing was that he, not the pope, had the right to elect bishops. Unfortunately the pope at the time was very undiplomatic which made Henry angry and he founded the church of england where he, not the pope, had the right. It was more about power than religion, at least for Henry. The differences werent big in the beginning but as a result many catholic powers , spain,were encouraged by the pe to put that english king in his place. And so the gulf between church of england and catholixism , which hadn't been enormous in the beginning grew. (and of course the memory of Bloody Marys short reign still was remembered). In Sweden this sharp divide never happened so therefore the tolerance was bigger at least until the 30-year war started 1618. Sigismund (as the nephews name was) was king between 1592-1597. Then Karl took over which probably was good for sweden. Sigismund was never very practical. He wanted to be king of both countries but he prefered to sit in a palace in poland while the people in sweden felt that they wanted a king that resided in the country. When Sweden smashed the polish army in the 1620,s they did not declare themselves king but did what sigismund should have done. They elected a pole to be king but made sure he would follow swedish orders. If Sigismund would have done that, with either the swedish or the polish throne, he would at least have had a chance.
Your king Charles, i assume you mean Charles I?, was also not a very flexible monarch. Not good at listening. An admirable familyfather for that time but not really king material. Charles II was a much better king. He understood that to rule england you must be able to manipulate the parlament which his father never understood. He just ignored it.
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I dont know much about what happenned in England, but I'll give you the Scottihs perspective on the English Civil War. Charles, as you said, was not his father. His father, James I, was a well liked and respected monarch who valued Scotland much, he even wrote Gaelic poetry. But his son was different, being raised in an English court. He travelled to Scotland in 1638, intent on bringing about unity in his Kingdom, essentially attempting to turn the Scottish Kirk Anglican, turning the Scottish church into an English subsidary. The Scottish turned on Charles, this lead to the Bishops Wars, in which the Scottish forces were able to defeat Charles army, weirdly enough, Montrose was on the side of the covenanters/the Kirk then. As I understand it, this bankrupt Charles, for he didn't have the money to emply the soldiers. This led to mass economic hardships, which in turn turned the Parliament against Charles, leading the way for a man like Cromwell. Now when Cromwell started his rebellion, the Scots were eager to join, because they had their issues with Charles. But there was a faction in Scotland who were loyal to Charles, those who fought with him in the Bishops Wars, Montrose switched sided and joined Charles, for he believed in the monarchy, despite its flaws. Backed by Irish Confederates, Montrose started a campaign in Scotland to rid those loyal to Cromell, this culminated with The Battle of Kilsyth, an astonishing victory in which Montrose smashed the anti-monarchists, led by William Baillie, who fought with Sweden in the Thirty Years War. Montrosw wanted to march south, and aid Charles English forces, but this never occured, his men abandoned him, the highlanders went home to protect their lands, while the Irishmen continued to fight their age old rivals, the Campbells. Montrose was defeated at Philiphaugh, and fled to Norway. After Charles was defeated in England, the Scots relized that Cormwell wanted to completeley rid England of the monarchy. This led to the Scots turning on Cromwell, for while they disliked Charles, they still believed in the rights of Kings, Cromwell then invaded and conquered Scotland. Montrose returned years later, but was captured and executed. Scotland lived under Cromwells rule until the return of Charles II later in the century, Charles crown passed to his brother, James IIV, and he unlawfully lost his crown, But thats a different story.
Interesting to read about Poland.
Well, another weekend has gone and i have read a few books. Not much else to do.
The Terracotta Army by John Man. About the astounding archaeological discovery of ca 6000 man sized terracotta figures that guarded the first emperors tomb. They were made in about 220 BC. and discovered in about 1974. Since then excavations has been ongoing but only parts are really done as of today. That first emperor is as important today as ever as he is seen, probably correctly, as the founding father of China. It was smaller than today but it was his vision that made the inhabitants think of it as a unit, he encouraged the use of a singly language all over china and he made the laws encouraged by advisers mainly thinking along Confucian lines. Confucianism was, in the beginning, not so much a religion, as a guide to how you should best rule a kingdom.
The Babes In The Woods by Ruth Rendell. OK mystery novel but not even close to her best. She can write really good ones. Somehow this seems to be done with the left hand at parts. But she is never bad as so many others can be.
The Best of Snoopy 1950-1959- A collection of strips from the early years of peanuts. When Snoopy was more like a dog, before Lucy had been introduced. and so on. Interesting to see the development of the comic in its early years. Its first decade.
The Terracotta Army by John Man. About the astounding archaeological discovery of ca 6000 man sized terracotta figures that guarded the first emperors tomb. They were made in about 220 BC. and discovered in about 1974. Since then excavations has been ongoing but only parts are really done as of today. That first emperor is as important today as ever as he is seen, probably correctly, as the founding father of China. It was smaller than today but it was his vision that made the inhabitants think of it as a unit, he encouraged the use of a singly language all over china and he made the laws encouraged by advisers mainly thinking along Confucian lines. Confucianism was, in the beginning, not so much a religion, as a guide to how you should best rule a kingdom.
The Babes In The Woods by Ruth Rendell. OK mystery novel but not even close to her best. She can write really good ones. Somehow this seems to be done with the left hand at parts. But she is never bad as so many others can be.
The Best of Snoopy 1950-1959- A collection of strips from the early years of peanuts. When Snoopy was more like a dog, before Lucy had been introduced. and so on. Interesting to see the development of the comic in its early years. Its first decade.
Read a book about strange unexplained events. Rather fun it was written in 1980 and usual suspects were there like Yetin and Bigfoot and Nessie and their relatives. But also some others like The Nazca lines where the mystery not lies so much in how they did it but why. These figures are so big that they cant be seen from the ground only from airplanes. Still they are very well made. Obviously important to the people who made them and it also show a big skill in geometry that was necessary to get it right. There are some more recent landscape figures as they are called in the UK made mostly between the 16,th century and the 19,th century. there are two that might belong to celtic or anglosaxon times but since these types of figures are hard to date its difficult to know. Then of course various animals that has been seen time and again but never confirmed. Author says we should be careful of dismissing everything considering that animals like the mountain gorilla was considered mythical until 1904. Other animals may have avoided discovery in the same way even if it with time gets less and less likely. Fun to read, a bit outdated but full of interesting facts like the many witnessed rains of fishes, seeds, frogs and the like.
Great analysis of the American Civil War, manages to debunk some of the myths about this conflict as well as give new possible explinations. Such a destructive conflict, how history could have been different had this conflict gone another way. Greatly interesting.
Written in 1918 so it has another point of view than many more modern works. But while reading one should keep in mind the authors view on race In his own words "Giving the vote to the blacks is an attack on civilisation". Hardly a view many agrees with today. In part it colors his reasoning in some aspects. But as a complement it works very well.
I felt i needed something to cheer me up a little in these Corona days. I started "The World of Jeeves" a collection of all the Jeeves and Wooster short stories by P.G. Wodehouse. I have read it before but i will always smile and sometimes even laugh when i read them. It was just what the doctor ordered. So funny.
During the weekend i read Triptyk by Karin Slaughter. Very disappointing. I have tried a book of her before and was not a fan but thought i should give her another shot. This was even worse. So many better authors IMO. I decided to abandon her. She has had her chances.
two books im reading for the rest of this month of April
Mistborn Well of Ascension
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mistborn Well of Ascension
To Kill a Mockingbird
At the moment I'm reading Strange Weather by Joe Hill, who I privately think of as "Sai King the Younger". I'll be very public with my thoughts, though; the apple does not fall far from the tree, and the young man has a definitive talent, especially where characterization is concerned.
I finished The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow last week. I have not been able to start anything new yet, I loved it so much. Part fairy tale, a lot of adventure. Little bit of romance (but not cheesy) and a little horror. I really loved it a lot.
I highlighted a few passages I wanted to share, because they remind me of something and think they will you all, too.
...novels are untrustworthy advisors. They aren't concerned with rationality or sobriety; they peddle in tragedy and suspense, in chaos and rule breaking, in madness and heartache, and they will steer you toward such things with all the guile of a piper luring rats into a river.
"All I know is there are these places--sort of thinned-out places, hard to see unless you're doing a certain kind of looking--where you can go to somewhere else. All kinds of somewhere else, some of them packed full of magic. And they always leak, so all you have to do is follow the stories."
Doors, he told her, are change, and change is a dangerous necessity. Doors are revolutions and upheavals, uncertainties and mysteries, axis points around which entire worlds can be turned. They are the beginnings and endings of every true story, the passages between that lead to adventures and madness and--here he smiled--even love. Without doors the world would grow stagnant, calcified, storyless.
Easily my favorite so far this year and I hope some of you will read it and love it too.
I highlighted a few passages I wanted to share, because they remind me of something and think they will you all, too.
...novels are untrustworthy advisors. They aren't concerned with rationality or sobriety; they peddle in tragedy and suspense, in chaos and rule breaking, in madness and heartache, and they will steer you toward such things with all the guile of a piper luring rats into a river.
"All I know is there are these places--sort of thinned-out places, hard to see unless you're doing a certain kind of looking--where you can go to somewhere else. All kinds of somewhere else, some of them packed full of magic. And they always leak, so all you have to do is follow the stories."
Doors, he told her, are change, and change is a dangerous necessity. Doors are revolutions and upheavals, uncertainties and mysteries, axis points around which entire worlds can be turned. They are the beginnings and endings of every true story, the passages between that lead to adventures and madness and--here he smiled--even love. Without doors the world would grow stagnant, calcified, storyless.
Easily my favorite so far this year and I hope some of you will read it and love it too.