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BTT: What are you reading.
It’s a holiday weekend here in the U.S., so let’s keep today’s question simple–What are you reading? Anything special? Any particularly juicy summer reading? It's not a holiday here in the UK because we tend not to celebrate high treason, but luckily enough we don't hold grudges for too long either. George Washington will be forgiven sometime around 2276ad. At the moment I'm reading a couple of books. The one that I'm giving most time too is Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie. It's a biography of the last Tsar and Tsarina. It's a really good book, the subject is handled with tact and care and having a haemophiliac son himself he is good at exploring the effects of Alexei's disease on the family. It's a very personal portrait, talking a lot about family life and personalities, it makes the tragic murder of the Romanovs seem all the more horrible when you start to know the little personality traits and what not of the children. I'm still not convinced I wish to read the last chapters mind. Beyond that I'm still rereading war and peace, just not very quickly, it's kind of simmering in the background and I just read a few chapters at the weekends. |
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petescully / Website (3.7.08 19:52) george washington was from your neck of the woods, wasn't he, the north-east? I always think it's funny, independence day. It wasn't independence for the native americans, after all. Only independence for colonists, not colonised. Maybe the UK should have an independence day too, perhaps to commemorate independence from the angevins, or the romans, or the vikings, or even the americans (as if that will ever happen). I won't be reading though, I'll be eating, drinking and drawing like crazy. |
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fabulous / Website (3.7.08 20:10) I have just finished the most amazing book i have read in a long time, if infact ever. It is called The Shack by William p Young. It was published this year so its a new one out. I cant give much away but Peej if your gonna read anything this year. Read this book. |
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Bun / Website (3.7.08 22:31) Notes From An Exhibition by Patrick Gale. Is very good. |
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amillionpieces / Website (3.7.08 23:03) Pete, have a good one! You're spot on about the native Americans too, then again the British kinda stabbed them in the back as they fought on our side then we signed over their territory. Whoops. Washington Old Hall is not far at all, I may go if the national trust ever deliver my membership card. fabulous, sounds really interesting, it's not gory is it? Bun, will have to add it to my list (which is expanding huge again!) |
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fabulous / Website (4.7.08 12:15) not gory at all. Its from Wesley Owen. Its a soul moving book. |
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Rachel / Website (4.7.08 16:02) I'm reading "Sex with the Queen," which is pretty awesome. |
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amillionpieces / Website (5.7.08 20:47) Fab - cool, it sounds good 
Rachel - I've not heard of that one, assuming it's not actually about old person sex, what is it about? |
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Rachel / Website (5.7.08 21:07) HA. It's actually historical nonfiction, which isn't exactly "my" genre, but it's an easy read about the secret and not-so-secret sex lives of historical female rulers. And yes, especially now, some of them are quite old.
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amillionpieces / Website (5.7.08 23:30) Hehe, I bet Catherine The Great gets a place! I read her biog and she was pretty insatiable even when she was old. Much money left the royal coffers to pay for her lovers pensions! |
