Book bingo reviews

[deinonychus_1]

I'm up to 14 completed books this year now, although only 10 of them are filling bingo squares. However, I've just filled the 'number or colour in the title' square, which means I am one square away from a straight line bingo, so if I'm being at all competitive, my next book ought to be for the biography/autobiography square

Comments

[girlwhowasnt]

So I'll skip reading the book, but I'm so here for your inevitable Atlantis fic where you put this knowledge to good use. ;)

[deinonychus_1]

Lol! When I was listing the examples from Greek myth, I did think about throwing in a reference to Pythagoras and Icarus, and seeing if anyone would notice!

[honor_reid]

Wow those both sound like heavy books. Although I would love to attend a lecture series about either one.

Do you have a biography in mind?

[deinonychus_1]

I was expecting the one about the Bronze Age collapse to be far heavier than it actually was. Once I got into it I was flying through it, I couldn't put it down, which was a nice surprise.

I do have a biography in mind - As You Wish, by Cary Elwes, which is about his time filming The Princess Bride. Possibly pushing the definition of biography/autobiography a little bit, but the mods seem to be flexible.

As it turns out, though, I didn't start that one next. I decided to read another couple of the St Mary's novels instead, so the autobiography is still on my to-read pile.

[fififolle]

They certainly sound like fascinating subjects!! Well done you for being so intilektual :D

[deinonychus_1]

Lol, hardly! They were both fascinating, though, and both right up my street in terms of specialist area of interest.

[fififolle]

:D

[keli]

Very interesting subjects! Glad you made it through them. I just finished the first St. Mary's Chronicle book. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

[deinonychus_1]

Yey, did you enjoy it? I've been working my way through the entire St Marys series over the last few months, I've read them all except the most recent one that only came out in April this year. I've bought it, I just haven't read it yet.

[justjo2u]

Those sound really interesting if a little 'heavy going'. Congrats on getting through them!

[deinonychus_1]

The second one was heavy going, the Bronze Age one surprisingly not so much. I'm definitely having a non-fiction phase the last few months - occasionally punctuated by the St Chronicles of St Mary's novel series.