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injest:
if anyone is interested we have  thread devoted to Mary Renault here:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,7090.0.html

Kerry:

--- Quote from: delalluvia on February 02, 2009, 12:49:57 am ---The Nature of Alexander was an excellent read.  Very much recommend it.

Didn't like The Persian Boy so much - it was beautifully written, but I felt for Hephaestion's pain.

--- End quote ---

Ah, Alexander & Hephaestion. One of the truly great love stories of antiquity. So tragic. So sublime.  :'(

Kerry:

--- Quote from: injest on February 02, 2009, 01:23:25 am ---if anyone is interested we have  thread devoted to Mary Renault here:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,7090.0.html

--- End quote ---

Thanks for the reminder, Jess. I thoroughly enjoyed the Mary Renault thread.  :D

Anya_Angie:
I'm like my mom, I read a few books at a time LOL. Currently I am working on:

"The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

Being a huge horror fanatic I am so engaged in the story, I feel like I am inside the house, or travelling with the heroine. I feel like I am experiencing all this with her, and I am only on the fourth chapter! I'm spellbound so far.

"A Lifelong Passion: The Story of Nicholas & Alexandra In Their Own Words"

Being a fan of Russian history and Russian culture in general I am enthralled with this collection arranged chronologically of diaries and letters from the last Tzar and Tzaritsa of Russia, their daughters and son, their distant relatives, friends, servants, and towards the end the guards who kept them under arrest have some entries too. The book starts in 1881 and then skips ahead a few years, and currently I am in 1890s somewhere (my aide dropped the book while cleaning and lost my place for me! I know I am somewhere in the 40s but I can't remember where). Anyway, it's lovely to see their romance blossom. I am also intrigued to read Grand Duke Konstantin's "sinful" exploits (he was, in his opinion, "cursed" with homosexuality though he was, of course, married and had a few children). Anyway, great introduction to the private lives of the last Tzar and his court.

That's all I am currently reading really.

injest:
I am reading "The Survivor's Club"...VERY interesting!

the author has been making the rounds on the talk shows lately, this book talks about real life emergencies and tries to show why some people survive an emergency and others don't. (beyond chance).

covers plane crashes, animal attacks, crime.

very compelling reading.

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