It's International Book Week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence as your status. Don't mention the title. Copy the rules as part of your post.

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Glen Cook Dark WarI'm not quite sure how to describe this book. I guess something like steampunkish science fantasy would be pretty close. It's different somehow from other books by Cook I've read. I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about it. I'm not even sure I like it ( Read more... )

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The following are my nine newest books.

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Carlo D'Este Warlord. A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945It should be obvious from the title what his book is about. In this biography of Winston Churchill the author chooses to focus on the life of Churchill the soldier. A considerable fraction of the book is about the early life of Churchill and his fascination with war. Even after ( Read more... )

In no particular order. I haven't done one of these posts since February. Apart from these books there was an attempt to read a biography of Cromwell, I didn't finish that one.

Terry Pratchett Maskerade
The witches of Discworld go to see the opera. Hillarity ensues. And there's one very naughty cookbook.

Robert K. Massie Peter the Great: His Life ( Read more... )

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.

Here's the list:
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X)
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Lois McMaster Bujold MemoryYet another book about book about Miles Vorkosigan and what he does. This one is about the twilight of his career at Imperial Security, but soon something strange starts to happen at ImpSec. So this book become a 'who watches the watchmen' kind of deal. It's entertaining in as all books about Miles are, and it's written ( Read more... )

Rick Atkinson The Day of Battle
I got this book as a Christmas present, amazing how grandma knew I wanted this book.

This is the second book in what Atkinson calls The Liberation Trilogy. The first book, An Army at Dawn, dealt with the North African campaign. Anyway the subject matter in this one is the Sicily and Italian campaigns. It tells of ( Read more... )

From time to time amazon.com and .co.uk send out recommendation emails. I have nothing against those. These emails are based on stuff you've previously bought or said you own. Also fine ( Read more... )