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Mad Scientess ([personal profile] nanila) wrote in [community profile] bitesizedreading2015-12-30 04:43 pm
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Daily Reading (30 December 2015)

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!
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[personal profile] sunflowerinrain 2015-12-30 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
C.J. Sansom's Heartstone. And very good it is, too.
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[personal profile] nanila 2015-12-31 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
The Shardlake series looks fascinating. Very weighty though; I'm not sure I currently have the reading-attention span to manage it. But definitely want to investigate in future!
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[personal profile] sunflowerinrain 2016-01-02 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
Sansom puts in a vast amount of well-researched detail, but not in the style of Walter Scott (argh those pages of description of the landscape at the start of a novel!). It's so vivid that I would counsel not reading the books if you are feeling queasy, Tudor England being what it was.

This one started a little slowly, and the plot seemed weaker than usual, but I feel that I have lived through the sinking of the Mary Rose and my memories of Portsmouth have become rather confused between the centuries.
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