Titles: To Lie With Lions, Caprice & Rondo, Gemini
Author: Dorothy Dunnett
# of Pages: Over 1500, combined
Publisher: Vintage

Rating: 10/10

Favorite lines:

To Lie With Lions - Nicholas said, "If you faint like a cowardly turd, I will forbid you my house."

Caprice & Rondo - "But it is not a bad thing to face life with a flower at the ear, as a dancer ( Read more... )

Title:  One Thousand White Women
Author:  Jim Fergus
Publisher:  St. Martin's Griffin
# of Pages:  320

Rating:  DNF

From Booklist
An American western with a most unusual twist, this is an imaginative fictional account of the participation of May Dodd and others in the controversial "Brides for Indians" program, a clandestine U.S. government^-sponsored ( Read more... )

Title:  The Winter Mantle
Author:  Elizabeth Chadwick
Publisher:  St. Martin's Press
# of Pages:  512

Rating:  6/10

Favorite line:  "Do not seek to sweeten the potion."

From Booklist
With a practiced hand, Chadwick spins an irresistible historical romp that spans two generations. In 1067, William the Conqueror has successfully crushed the English at the ( Read more... )

I'm attempting to go back to one title per entry here, for ease of tagging.

Title: When Christ and His Saints Slept
Author: Sharon Kay Penman
# of Pages: 768
Publisher: Ballantine Books

Rating: 4/10

I thought I’d like this book, but I REALLY did not. Penman’s novel about the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud in 1100s England was long and ( Read more... )

Title:  Black Powder War
Author:  Naomi Novik
Publisher:  Del Rey
# of Pages:  400

Rating:  9/10

Isn't it such a feeling of accomplishment when you catch up to a series?  Or finish it?  That's how I felt at the end of Naomi Novik's Black Powder War.  It helped that it was a good book, too, of course :-)

Black Powder War is the third book in the Temeraire ( Read more... )

Whew, August is off to a very intense start (well, 2/3 of the way through the month isn't a start, I guess). The first book is about death, the second about dying gods and the third about goodness only really knows what :-)

Title: The Mercy of Thin Air
Author: Ronlyn Domingue
Publisher: Washington Square
# of Pages: 336

Rating: 10/10

Amazon review ( Read more... )

Ugh, I hate when I’m lazy and don’t update this blog because then I have a WHOLE lot of catching up to do at some point. This time, I’m going to be lazy and just do brief summaries of all the books ( Read more... )

The last two books I read were Boudica: Dreaming the Hound, by Manda Scott, and Three Hands in the Fountain, by Lindsey Davis. Scott’s book is about the Boudica, the warrior queen who led native Britons in a war to keep the Romans out of Britain. Davis’s book is from the Falco series (which has featured here before). Falco had been in the Roman ( Read more... )

If there is a positive side to being stuck in airport limbo, it is that one gets a LOT of uninterrupted time to read. So luckily, on my ill-fated trip to Texas, I overpacked on the book side, as usual, and got a lot done ( Read more... )

Title: A Dying Light in Corduba ( Read more... )