Daily Reading (30 December 2015)

[nanila]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

Comments

[sunflowerinrain]

C.J. Sansom's Heartstone. And very good it is, too.

[ironed_orchid]

I (re)read some of The Orphan's Tales before bed.

[fred_mouse]

Still slogging through reading Ursula Vernon's "Castle Hangnail" out loud to the kids, one or two chapters at a time. Frustratingly, we've stopped at a cliffhanger of significant proportions, and I don't think two chapters will get us past it, and we won't get to read it tonight!

[nanila]

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!

[nanila]

Have you read all of it before? I presume since you're re-reading, you would recommend...?

[nanila]

Argh! Sorry to hear it! Hope you can get to the resolution soon.

[ironed_orchid]

I love it very much.

[sunflowerinrain]

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.