What books are you currently reading?

-Title
-Author
-Time Period
-Overall thoughts about it so far

Currently up on my Rosado mp3 is Wolf Hall. The one with 'he', present tense and oddities. It is rolling along, tickerty-boo at a 3.5* interest.

Just started "The Mad Courtesan," by Edward Marston. It's a historical mystery with an Elizabethan theatre setting, probably in the 1590s (date not specified thus far).

So far we've got a murdered actor, political intrigue, and a horse that plays dead on command.

It's keeping my attention.

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SusannaG that definitely sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out.
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I've added the books that people are reading to the post so that people will be able to check them out if they want to.

I just finished "The Ghost Bride," by Yangsze Choo, set in 1890s Malaysia among Chinese merchant settlers. It's a quirky romance/coming of age novel with a marvelously fantastical and detailed journey through the Chinese afterlife. I liked it a lot.

I also read "The Pet Hawk of the House of Abbas," by Dmitry Chen, which I didn't like so much. It's a really interesting setting (8th-century Central Asia), and the translator did a lovely job, but the novel slows to a crawl at times. When it's moving, though, it's pretty good.

Not sure what I tackle next. Maybe Tasha Alexander's "Behind the Shattered Glass."

I haven't read "The Glass Palace." I'll have to look for it!

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Took me a while to get used to Mantel's style too, but ended up loving it!

Finished "The Mad Courtesan." Not much actual mystery in it, but plenty of other stuff going on to keep one's attention.

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"Took me a while to get used to Mantel's style too, but ended up loving it!"

Yes, same here. I also very much hope we'll get to see the BBC's take on the novels outside of Britain sooner rather than later -- Rylance is top billing for the title role (I saw him in the Globe's production of "Twelfth Night" last year, he managed to steal the show even from under Stephen Fry; though both Fry and Rylance were absolutely brilliant). AND I'd give anything to see the RSC production of Mantel's dratization of her own novel(s) that's scheduled to open in Stratford in January 2014 ...

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/jan/23/rsc-rights-stage-hilary-mantel
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21712688
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2289881/Mark-Rylance-rule-BBCs-Wolf-Hall-adaptation-best-selling-novel.html

I'm downloading Pompeii by Robert Harris right now. I'll probably be listening to it in a few days.

Just got my hands on "Mistress of the Night," which is about Catherine the Great.

AND on "The Dead in their Vaulted Arches," the newest Flavia de Luce historical mystery. Y'all may not see much of me today!

I've started Pompeii now, it's amazing.

I haven't started Tasha Alexander yet. Instead I'm reading Shan Sa's Empress, about Empress Wu of China (7th century), which is okay. Also re-reading Elizabeth Peters, The Curse of the Pharaohs, which I love.

"The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches" was really good. I'd recommend it to any Flavia de Luce fan.