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Lily Fairbairn
Half-elven
Aug 8 2017, 2:25pm
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It's the second reading thread of August!
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Wow, I just realized there are five Tuesdays in August. I'd better stay on my toes. 
I'm now listening to One Summer: America 1927, by Bill Bryson. This is pretty much what it sounds like, the history of the US during the summer of 1927. So far, at least, it's centered around Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic. But Bryson being delightfully Bryson, it keeps discursing (if that's a word) away into other personalities, weather, technology, crime, and so forth. It's enjoyable and informative both. Bryson reads this himself.
On paper, I'm still reading Neil Oliver's The Vikings: A New History. Like Bryson, he discurses into a variety of related subjects. I don't know if any of Oliver's books are even available in audio, let alone if he reads them himself, but I'd buy one just to listen to his delicious Scottish accent.
So what have you been reading?
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow....
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Elberbeth
Tol Eressea
Aug 9 2017, 2:31pm
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one of my summer readings (by I can't remember who because I lent it out). It's about 8 men (mostly Poles imprisoned just for being Polish) who escaped from an Siberian work camp in 1942 and managed to walk (!) 14 months to eventually reach British India. Only three of them survived the journey. It is based on the recollections of the leader of the group who ended up living in Britain. However, there is now some controversy about whether this is actually what happened because there are a couple of similar stories. Nevertheless, a good read. It was roughly covered in the movie The Way Back, which I had never heard of, and reading the synopsis it only very slightly follows the book.
"There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark."
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Aug 9 2017, 5:05pm
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Talamk an Eisc: Book One of the Celtic Rings Series
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by our own Kilidoescartwheels
I'm about halfway through. It's a rousing thriller set in the world of Vikings in Newfoundland about a thousand years ago. Thrillers aren't a genre I've read much, but I'm mostly interested in all the details of life at the time. I've read lots of historical novels set in Rome and Egypt, but never in Newfoundland before.
Even though it's a historical novel, it reads a lot like a fantasy novel, just because Tolkien and Lewis set a fashion for the 'northern thing' in fantasy novels. I think people on this board would enjoy it very much.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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Ginger
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Aug 10 2017, 10:21pm
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The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
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This was recommended by NottaSackville a few weeks ago and rightly so (the post was July 11th). As he stated, the story is grim and violent, but I liked the twists and turns.
I am very glad I was not born in 9th century England.
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Annael
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Aug 12 2017, 7:40pm
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the latest in the Godstalk series by P.C. Hodgell, and as usual, weird and wonderful. My only quibble is that a major plot issue got resolved way too suddenly and easily, to the point that I went 'wait, what? That's OVER?" Seemed like more of a battle/struggle was called for.
But on the other hand, it means a lot of things can start to happen that couldn't before, and maybe that was the primary thing on Hodgell's mind. Looking forward to the NEXT book now - hopefully it won't be three years like the gap between the last book and this one, but Hodgell doesn't rush her work.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the words begin to move around … The words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young.
-- Gaston Bachelard
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