What are you reading? 2019

I just started reading Foundation by the great Asimov. I thought I would be revisiting something I read when I was young but it turns out it is all new to me. How cool is that!

Sorry @Gail_68 , I don't care for lusty lore.

Oh that reminds me. At the dentist's office the other day, there was a brand new copy of Popular Mechanics. Too much fun for free

 

Hi CanadianLori so you like Science mate...nice one everyone to their own and it's nice seeing what others read besides Mechanics...nice one mate

I've always read lusty lore books ….I've read some right detailed ones in the past say no more on the subject

 

A woman of substance - Barbara Taylor Bradford.

I love books involving powerful women.
I first read this some years ago.

 

Nice to hear what you like reading ...as you can see i'm in to romance books but mainly highlander ones from different centuries plus you do learn the history behind them, sometimes I drop on the odd book like the one i'm reading where there's lady warriors and they're great

 

@Whippet

You might be interested in Eleanor Of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir

 

While relaxing on the back garden today I browsed for a new book and found this one straight away as I love the writer and always enjoy her books ….it's had me with laughter...I bet the neighbours thought I was a right looney

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Well I've finished the Legend earlier tonight and purchased another before I sat down and read the prologue on it...sounds like it's going to be another good book besides good reviews.

The blood lines of seven great houses come together in the greatest knight of them all.

He bears the name of de Russe, but the bloodlines of seven great houses converge in the greatest knight England has yet seen. As the uncle of Gaston de Russe, the Dark One, Sir Bastien de Russe beholds a great and terrible legacy, one that makes him both the target and the leader, the hunter and the hunted. His story is the most powerful of all.

1431 A.D. - As the premier knight for the Duke of Bedford, Bastian has been assigned a great and terrible task - he becomes the jailer for the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc. At first her enemy, he comes to know the woman who has fought so hard to free France from English rule, and an odd but symbiotic friendship grows. On the day Joan is taken to meet her death at the stake, Bastian is both her escort and her comfort. But before the flames are lit, Joan begs Bastian for one last favor. Reluctantly, he complies, but the rumors are already flying fast and furious about the English knight and the Maid. Some say he loves her; some say she has bewitched him.

Hoping to remove Bastian from France and from whatever spell the Maid may have cast upon him,the Duke of Bedford makes arrangements to return him to England and to a new assignment - as the protector of young King Henry VI. Additionally, Bastian is awarded a bride for his services in France, but it an award he doesn't want. His bride, Lady Gisella le Bec, daughter of the great Richmond le Bec (from the novel GREAT PROTECTOR), has no desire to marry a man who was rumored bewitched by the Maid of Orleans. With neither Bastian or Gisella having any choice in the matter, a hasty marriage is made.

Thus begins their saga.

Through triumph, intrigue, battles, and grief, Bastian and Gisella come to know one another and in spite of everything, a powerful love begins to bloom. But Bastian still has a promise to fulfill, a promise he made to the Maid just before she died, and it is this promise that drives him to risk both his life and Gisella's. From the dungeons of Rouen to the royal halls of London, don't miss this deeply romantic and exciting adventure.

Great passion and great benevolence abide in the man known as the BEAST.​

 

Well the Beast was an enjoyable read and this books just been released by another writer I follow...so I've purchased it, I just hope it's as good as it says

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I'm now reading this book and not bad so fare.

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1356 A.D. – It is warring times for England as the Black Prince sweeps his way through France, waging nasty warfare on the population. Masterminding this brutal strategy is the knight they call the Black Angel. Brandt de Russe, Duke of Exeter, is the brains behind the prince’s war machine, a mountain of a man who is as cunning as he is frightening. In battle, no man is his equal.

The Lady Ellowyn de Nerra, granddaughter of the great mercenary Braxton de Nerra, has been sent to London by her crippled father to collect the men he has donated to the Black Prince’s wars in France. De Nerra men are mingled with the Duke of Exeter’s men and Ellowyn is at the dock when the duke disembarks his ships. In her attempt to introduce herself to Brandt and explain her purpose, the duke has little time for the beautiful young woman and mistakes her for a lady of the night. Grossly insulted, Ellowyn threatens the man that all sane men fear.

And so begins the fiery, passionate, and deep love story that transcends families, kings, and two continents, building to the Battle of Poitiers where Brandt is on the front lines. In battle, no man is his equal but even the most powerful of men are prisoners of their own hearts.

 

Well I destroyed that book last night "The lord of war - Black Angel"...smashing red and just been and brought this one.

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Well I've just finished reading the "The Dark Knight" wonderful read...I just can't get enough of Katherine Le Veques books besides the history with them and purchased today another by her

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Been a while since I got reminded about this thread!

I've just finished Super Cannes by J.G.Ballard. It's an even better read than Cocaine Nights which was always my Ballard favourite.
So on a totally different tack I'm now halfway through Tom Holts The Outsourcerers Apprentice. Full of the usual Holt humour, Goblins, Elves and all sorts of silliness. I cannot stop myself from laughing out loud - they must think that I've taken a turn for the worse in Cafe Nero at the moment!

 

longk in some of the books I read above there's witty comments and I do laugh out load and when I look up...hubby is looking at me like I've gone mad