What are you currently reading?

[maryslittlegarden]

Dragonfly in Amber, by Diana Gabaldon. It's not particularly good but I spent a credit on it so I feel like I should finish it.

Have you read any of her other books?

[Birdie]

Dragonfly in Amber, by Diana Gabaldon. It's not particularly good but I spent a credit on it so I feel like I should finish it.

Have you read any of her other books?

Just Outlander.

[Birdie]

They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei, about the Japanese internment during WWII.

[Prayerful]

Dragonfly in Amber, by Diana Gabaldon. It's not particularly good but I spent a credit on it so I feel like I should finish it.

I've read some books which are really heavy weather, badly editing and so I give up, but I return and find that after the start, the book can be quite good.

UnRoman Britain, Miles Russell, Stuart Laycock which advances the thesis that Roman authority there was stoutly resisted and fairly superficial with most continuing to live in roundhouses and hillforts even after villas bloomed in the third and fourth centuries. It notes particularly how militarised civilian late Roman deposits became with military belts, knives, spear heads, military darts and arrow heads. It was a basic Roman idea that civilians could not bear arms, but after the country had been largely denuded of troops by claimants such as Magnus Maximus (who has a long afterlife in Welsh legend and another claimant Allectus seemed to have been a name used by some Welsh suggested he too was in legends now lost), plus notes examples of an Athenian militia led by historian Dexippus against Goths in the third century. The early part was making this and that claim which didn't seemed well supported, but later on the authors try to sustain their claims.

[maryslittlegarden]

Dragonfly in Amber, by Diana Gabaldon. It's not particularly good but I spent a credit on it so I feel like I should finish it.

Have you read any of her other books?

Just Outlander.

I had a hard time getting into her books after Outlander  too.

[red solo cup]

All The Gallant Men. An American Sailor's Firsthand Account Of Pearl Harbor by Donald Stratton

[Christina_S]

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman and Famous Father Girl by Jamie Bernstein, daughter of conductor Leonard Bernstein.

[clau clau]

One man and his Bike - Mike Carter.

What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling?

Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride around the entire British coastline - the equivalent of London to Calcutta.

He encountered drunken priests, drag queens and gnome sanctuaries. He met fellow travellers and people building for a different type of future. He also found a spirit of unbelievable kindness and generosity that convinced him that Britain is anything but broken. This is the inspiring and very funny tale of the five months Mike spent cycling the byways of the nation.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Man-Bike-Mike-Carter/dp/0091940567

Really enjoyed this.  I read it on the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/

This is a really excellent resource. It's worth setting up yourself an account as you can 'borrow' books; some only for 1 hour, but just keep borrowing every hour.

The local libraries in the UK are a bit rubbish these days as hardly any books but this is an internet version of effectively the same thing. The biggest drawback is that you have to read the book online; on a pc screen - but you might be able to connect something like a Kindle Fire using the browser.

[Birdie]

Getting ready to start The Physician by Noah Gordon. Set during the 11th century.

[maryslittlegarden]

https://archive.org/

This is a really excellent resource. It's worth setting up yourself an account as you can 'borrow' books; some only for 1 hour, but just keep borrowing every hour.

Archive is fantastic.  There is a ton of audio and movie stuff on there besides books, too

[Lynne]

Getting ready to start The Physician by Noah Gordon. Set during the 11th century.

Ooo, sounds very interesting!

[Birdie]

https://archive.org/

This is a really excellent resource. It's worth setting up yourself an account as you can 'borrow' books; some only for 1 hour, but just keep borrowing every hour.

Archive is fantastic.  There is a ton of audio and movie stuff on there besides books, too

I found all 297 episodes of my favorite Japanese tv series on there recently!

[Birdie]

All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot. One of my favorites.

[red solo cup]

Zero Fail. The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig

[Birdie]

Weedflower, by Cynthia Kodohata. The narrator has bad Japanese pronunciation.