@littlek,
My favorite book is Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. The story is described so realistically that it seems to you that you are also now in Australia and watching the events. Every story of the main characters touches the soul and you are sincerely worried about them. It is an engaging story filled with murder and mystery. The idea is very interesting. On the first page you will find out that the murder happened. But throughout the story, you have no idea who is the victim. At the same time, the genre cannot be called a detective story. A fascinating book about relationships.
She's Not There, by Joy Fielding. It's really good.
@Yalow,
SAPIENS, A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari.
I'm reading a biography of Regency clown Joe Grimaldi.
Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr
I just finished Old Bones, by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston. It's a detective novel. The main characters are Nora Kelly, an archeologist, and Corrie Swanson, a FBI agent. Good book.
About She's Not There (Joy Fielding) : The main character's baby is kidnapped. 15 years later, a teenage girl calls her and says she's her daughter...
Headed Into the Abyss: The Story of Our Time, and the Future We'll Face, by Brian T. Wilson
Finished A Thousand Ships, by Natalie Haynes. It's about the Trojan war, but from the point of view of women. Gives a little bit too much value to beauty, but I liked it.
@littlek,
Hi,
I am reading Riders to the Sea ( Written by Synge). It is a one-act play that focuses on the tragic story of Maurya and her children.
I'm curre tly reading a textbook on ancient civilisations from the stone age to the classical period.
I've just finished the chapters on Egypt, which I already knew a fair bit about and have just started the chapter on Babylon.
To be honest that's the bit I'm most interested in, I know a lot about the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians, but not much about Babylonians, Assyrians and Hittites.
It's quite a old book. The copy I have had a press cutting of an Am Dram review from the Ayreshire Post dated 23rd April 1954.
The book itself was published between the wars, it personally thanks Howard Carter himself for certain photographs etc. as Carter was still alive when it was written.
Another thing is that the author sets homework at the end of each chapter!
However, what is most telling isn't what is said about ancient cultures, but how he says it.
He definitely has the perpective of a white Christian quasi imperialist. The west definitely is the best, it would be a bit extreme calling him a fascist, but I bet he agreed with Hitler about more than a couple of things.
I've finished Catwoman : Soulstealer. I don't like Sarah J. Maas, but that book was good.
@Yalow,
Finally finished the book "SAPIENS" A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari.
I've finished Unconquerable Sun, by Kate Elliott. It's the story of a young princess figthing invaders. I recommend it. A huge book though, five hundred pages.
Reading an adventure book about Teddy Roosevelt called The River of Doubt. . It was written by Candice Millard and was a national bestseller around 2005. Approximately 350 pages.
This all takes place a few years after his lost presidential election. This story centered around his nearly-fatal 1914 journey with his son Kermit and an organized group of explorers who traveled down uncharted Amazon territory.
Finished Nettle and Bone, by T. Kingfisher, about a hard-working princess who saves her sister and herself from an awful situation. I recommend it.
I've just finished Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell.
I bought it because the title is the same as one of mine.
Very good account of the hundred years war.
The central character is an archer whose father was killed in a French raid on his village which also stole a holy relic, (St George's lance) so he goes to France seeking revenge.
Very good account of the Battle of Crecy.
@Ragman,
Ragman wrote:
Reading an adventure book about Teddy Roosevelt called The River of Doubt. . It was written by Candice Millard and was a national bestseller around 2005. Approximately 350 pages.
This all takes place a few years after his lost presidential election. This story centered around his nearly-fatal 1914 journey with his son Kermit and an organized group of explorers who traveled down uncharted Amazon territory.
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I saw the video version of this called Into the Amazon. It's amazing the hardships they endured portaging the enormously heavy dugouts around rapids through the jungle time and time again. Roosevelt was the adventurer, but Rondon was the one who surveyed the river and got them through it.
It was on American Experience on YouTube for a long time, but not anymore. .
