Staffordcastle digs at the ROOT of the towers
ForumROOT - 2013 Read Our Own Tomes
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3LauraBrook
Woo hoo, off to a great start!!! :)
4staffordcastle
Now reading Tongues of Serpents; I noticed that the next book is out already, so I'd better get cracking!
7staffordcastle
Thanks, Connie!
9cyderry
Great books have been sitting on your shelves - loved Tongues of Serpents as well as the Italian Secretary.
10staffordcastle
I've heard good things about the other books by the author of The Italian Secretary.
11susanj67
Great progress, staffordcastle! I keep reading about the Naomi Novik books. Maybe once I've read my 30 tomes I will have a look for the first one :-)
13staffordcastle
Yes, they are lots of fun, especially if you are a fan of Age of Sail books, like the Hornblower series, or Patrick O'Brien's or Alexander Kent's books
14staffordcastle
Thanks, Susan!
15DeltaQueen50
You've gotten your challenge off to a great start!
16staffordcastle
Thanks, DeltaQueen - I'm well into my next ROOT now - it helps that I'm unemployed at the moment, so have more time to read!
17staffordcastle
Finished The Queene's Cure, my #4.
18staffordcastle
Just finished (finally) The Library at Night, a wonderful book about books and reading. I had lost track of its location months ago, and it finally surfaced yesterday - only one chapter left to read!
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19susanj67
That's a great finish for relatively little effort! I was reading something on my Kindle a couple of years ago, wondering whether I would ever make it past about 70%, and suddenly it finished and the rest was endnotes and an index. I was so happy!
20Robertgreaves
That's the problem with ereaders. I can't 'see' how long it's going to take me to finish the book.
21konallis
Great progress! I found The Library at Night fascinating; Manguel's History of Reading is very good too.
22lbradf
On the other hand, I do like that the books weigh the same on an ereader whether they are 50 pages or 700. In fact, I made a point of reading Cutting for Stone as my first ereading adventure because I had found it so awkward to hold in hardback.
23staffordcastle
Robert, my e-reader has a slider that shows you how far you have gone/have to go, and it's also the mechanism for jumping to another place - you drag the little circle and a pop-up box shows you the page number. It's not a bad system, though not as immediate as just looking at how thick the unread pages are.
24Robertgreaves
My Kobo and the ereader apps on my tablet only show percentages, which is not very helpful in gauging how much reading time is needed for a book.
25staffordcastle
Last night I finished another one that had been on a long hiatus: Conan Doyle's Through the Magic Door. A very interesting description of Doyle's favorite books; I was familiar with most of them except the ones in the chapter on military memoirs and Napoleon. Some of them sound quite intriguing.
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26LauraBrook
25: I didn't know that such a book existed! It sounds interesting!
27staffordcastle
It was; both as a look at what one specific man liked to read, and a window into the literary tastes of a time long ago. I recognized many titles, but haven't read very many of them.
Just finished The Children of the Sun by Alfred W. Crosby, a very interesting history of energy sources.
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Just finished The Children of the Sun by Alfred W. Crosby, a very interesting history of energy sources.
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28staffordcastle
Just finished To Ruin a Queen by Fiona Buckley, and started its sequel.
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For some reason, the touchstone for the title has the wrong author, and the correct one is not on offer. :-(
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For some reason, the touchstone for the title has the wrong author, and the correct one is not on offer. :-(
29amz310783
>20 Robertgreaves: The new kindle will tell you approx how long it will take you to read next chapter and to end of book based on your reading speed. Not got one myself so don't know how good it is, but thought it sounded like a neat idea
30Robertgreaves
It sounds like a good idea but not good enough for me to trade in the ereader i only bought last Christmas. :-)
31Bowerbirds-Library
Wow, Staffordcastle, you are really motoring through your books! I'm most impressed.
32staffordcastle
Thanks, Bowerbirds! I just finished the next one, Queen of Ambition, which I've had for quite a while, since I hadn't read the previous one in the series when I was given it as a Christmas gift a few years ago.
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33staffordcastle
Finally have finished another oldie, The Queen's Conjurer. Started it years ago and stalled out, but this time I just galloped through it.
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36DeltaQueen50
Just passing through and noting that you seem to be totally on track to reach your goal. :)
37staffordcastle
Thanks, DeltaQueen!
I just finished Color: A Natural History of the Palette, which was interesting, though not quite what I expected. I have started Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World.
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I just finished Color: A Natural History of the Palette, which was interesting, though not quite what I expected. I have started Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World.
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38Robertgreaves
Sounds intriguing.
39staffordcastle
Finished Indigo; again, not quite what I expected, but interesting. Am now starting A Perfect Red.
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40staffordcastle
I have stalled on A Perfect Red, but gone back to a very old abandoned title, A Memory of Honour. This is a two volume work, and since it has taken me SO long to get through it, I'm counting it as two books.
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41staffordcastle
Finished Mother of Winter, which I've had for a long time but never read. Now reading its sequel, Icefalcon's Quest, which won't qualify for this challenge.
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43staffordcastle
Thanks, Connie!
Just finished An Elegant Madness, and about to start Our Tempestuous Day - on a Regency kick, lately!
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Just finished An Elegant Madness, and about to start Our Tempestuous Day - on a Regency kick, lately!
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