What I've Been Reading Wednesday
15 May 2019 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisbluespiritWhat I've Finished Reading
I managed to read the rest of Trudi Canavan's The Black Magician Trilogy. The books kept getting longer but overall I enjoyed them - the characters were all very likeable, and it was fairly easy for me to read, and it's really nice to be able to cope with visiting a fantasy world.
Then I read Katherine by Anya Seton and loved it, which was a surprise because when I was worse, a few years ago, I read Devil Water which turned out to be a randomly easy to read book for me at the time, so that was good, but it also seemed quite weird in some ways. Now I'm wishing I'd kept it in case it was just me. (Although my vague memories suggest maybe not? I don't know.) Anyway, Katherine is about Katherine Swynford and I liked it a lot, as I said.
After that, I read The Knife Man by Wendy Moore, about the 18th C surgeon John Hunter, which was very interesting - certainly not a boring subject - even if it was occasionally a bit (inevitably) gruesome!
What I'm Reading Now
I'm still going through Wartime Britain 1939-1945 for my family history note-taking purposes, but I have done a lot less of that than usual.
Currently I'm reading Bess of Hardwick by Mary S. Lovell, and enjoying it.
What I'm Reading Next
Who knows? There may be birthday goodies, after all. Probably it ought to be something shorter and not a biography next up, though. And I ought to resume my note-taking a bit more regularly, too.
I managed to read the rest of Trudi Canavan's The Black Magician Trilogy. The books kept getting longer but overall I enjoyed them - the characters were all very likeable, and it was fairly easy for me to read, and it's really nice to be able to cope with visiting a fantasy world.
Then I read Katherine by Anya Seton and loved it, which was a surprise because when I was worse, a few years ago, I read Devil Water which turned out to be a randomly easy to read book for me at the time, so that was good, but it also seemed quite weird in some ways. Now I'm wishing I'd kept it in case it was just me. (Although my vague memories suggest maybe not? I don't know.) Anyway, Katherine is about Katherine Swynford and I liked it a lot, as I said.
After that, I read The Knife Man by Wendy Moore, about the 18th C surgeon John Hunter, which was very interesting - certainly not a boring subject - even if it was occasionally a bit (inevitably) gruesome!
What I'm Reading Now
I'm still going through Wartime Britain 1939-1945 for my family history note-taking purposes, but I have done a lot less of that than usual.
Currently I'm reading Bess of Hardwick by Mary S. Lovell, and enjoying it.
What I'm Reading Next
Who knows? There may be birthday goodies, after all. Probably it ought to be something shorter and not a biography next up, though. And I ought to resume my note-taking a bit more regularly, too.
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