Reread Dragonwyck by Anya Seton. Good ole gothic romance.

I just finished a really good book - Crow Mary by Kathleen Grissom. Good book based on a real woman.

Now I am reading In the Midnight Rain by Barbara O’Neal. She also wrote When We Believed in Mermaids.Also good.

Best book I’ve read recently His & Hers by Alice Feeney. A really good murder mystery! Has about 4 twists and I never saw the last one coming! Sooo good!

Been having arthritis issues in my knees. Work a bit - sit and read a bit. Not too bad!

I will look into Sipsworth - sounds really good.

Have a great reading week!

Some nice recs there. Putting them on my list.

I finished Sipsworth last night. Not just good, extraordinary!

West, esp. those set in Texas where my Dad's family is from. The last really good one I read was The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook, which is set in the hill country.

My favorite was Catherine

I first read it when I was 13 and it was serialized in Ladies Home Journal. I've owned two copies since and reread it every so often. I swear I have some passages memorized.

It is an extraordinary period in English History

Several years late my dad got Thomas B. Costain's 4-volume series on the Plantagenets. As soon as he was done with one, I grabbed it and was off to the races. Wow! I think I still have it somewhere.

Hope you find it enjoyable to the end. Sounds fascinating.

I cried at the end of the first one.

I'm glad you liked Sipsworth. It is one of my favorite books of the past few years. I loved Simon Van Booy's writing style. I could picture everything so clearly.

Happy reading everyone!

the Blue Thread audio so I'll be listening to that now.

I loved what Booy did with the pages at the end. And, of coursee, I cried. Thanks for recommending that one.

Thanks for the thread, hermetic.

A murder mystery set in a 1964 in which Germany had won WWII. Hitler's 75th birthday is near, and President Joseph P. Kennedy
is going to visit Berlin. A very good suspense / speculative fiction thriller.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56842.Fatherland?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=E720CnSyu9&rank=3

Last week I finished his historical fiction trilogy of the life and career of Roman statesman and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero. Yesterday I started Act of Oblivion, a novel set in 1660 about the search for two Englishmen who were involved in the execution of Charles I, and who have fled to America.

Over the past few months I’ve also read Conclave, Pompeii and Munich.

I looked on Amazon and could not find a sample. It is atrociously expensive in book form and not available in kindle form. I may listen to the sample of the audio book tomorrow.
When you finish it I may ask you a couple of questions about it; things I remember from the one I read

You couldn’t have read it 42 years ago, though; it was published in 1992.

I read it on the plane when we were returning from Spain, which is why I know exactly when I read it.

This one sounds really good though. I think I might see what the library might offer

79 CE, whereas the Cicero trilogy ends in 43 BCE.

American War is a speculative fiction novel published in 2017 by the Canadian-Egyptian author Omar El Akkad. Set in a dystopian near-future America in which climate change has displaced millions of people.

Really disturbing. And just around the corner.

Writing is deeply emotive perfect.

Update: author is now a US citizen living in Oregon.

Also by the same author: What Strange Paradise. Syrian boy on a refugee boat. Heartbreaking. Deeply humane.

Now in the middle of Our Narrow Hiding Places/Kristopher Jansma

WWII Holland. Hunger, cold, bombs. More luminous writing.

A new author for me, but we heard him speaking at the Bay Tales crime fiction festival last weekend - so I have high hopes.

Great to hear from you. Glad you're still able to still see authors' talks. Cheers for stopping by.

The usual hi-jinx, a fun read.

I haven’t read him in years! Thanks for the tip.

My Liberal Ladies Who Lunch pick for our book group.

I expected this to be dry but au contraire, it is highly readable and very funny! Our discussion next Saturday is going to be fun. There are about 15 of us in the group.

We had our monthly lunch today at our favorite burger place Tommy's Burgers on Forest Park. Excellent food, reasonable prices, a private room and the owner is a hard-core Democrat! This group is not an activist group; it is strictly social. We get a couple or three new ladies each month, and every one of them says "I am so glad to find this group! I can't talk to anyone around me" or "I thought I was the only Democrat in Tarrant County"

Earlier in the week, I read The Mountain Mother Saga by N.S. Wikarski Second in a series I really like this series and hope some more of them pop up on the heavily discounted list. There are 8 of them. The Nephilim cult leader is a real piece of work.

THE ARKANA SERIES A myth-shattering treasure hunt that spans continents, centuries, and lost civilizations, pitting a secret society against a ruthless fundamentalist cult. The prize is a cache of hidden artifacts that could rewrite history or end it completely. With the world hanging in the balance, only one faction can win. More importantly, only one can survive
.Volume 2 - In THE MOUNTAIN MOTHER CIPHER, the race is on between Arkana agents and Nephilim operatives as they rush off to Turkey in search of clues leading to legendary artifacts. Among ancient megaliths on the top of Mount Ida, the foes square off in a literal cliffhanger of a confrontation.At the worst possible moment, the Arkana crew discovers that the Nephilim aren't their only competitors for lost treasure. Unforeseen obstacles and unknown enemies thwart their efforts to complete their mission and escape unharmed. This crisis teaches the newest member of the Arkana team where her real loyalties lie, but not all of the crew might make it home alive.

OMG, I'm loving "Dog On It" by Spencer Quinn. It's written by the dog, Chet, and life from Chet's perspective is so entertaining. I wish I'd found this series sooner. 15 books!

Many Chet and Bernie fans here. Welcome aboard.

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