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Is Roman Blood historical enough, do you think? This is the problem with suggesting stuff before actually having read it. I do read a range of historical accuracies and fluff-levels. And I wasn't about to suggest any of the science fiction.
Would everyone (other than me) have already read The First Man in Rome, though?
No worries, Tannat. We're all nominating books that we haven't read yet based on what we do know about them. I think as long as we're avoiding covers with scantily clad models we're doing alright!
Does anyone else want to add a suggestion to our options for May? I might just use the list we're coming up with to assign a few future months to make things easier.
Here's what we have so far:
First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
Bloody Field by Shrewsbury by Edith Pargeter
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell
The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch
Roman Blood by Steven Saylor
A Deadly Occupation by Suzanne Adair
Colour of Poison by Toni Mount
I think that's a nice-looking field.
Actually, I've been meaning to ask: how do we feel about historical romances? And by that, I don't mean the fluffy ones that tend to show scantily clad models, but the more historically-based ones (or at least reasonably well-researched) that tend to use a woman in a period dress or a painting on the cover? That is, equal parts history and romance, if not weighted towards the history?
I don't really have anything in that vein that I was going to suggest, but I thought I'd sound you out.
I would say that romance can be present but not the primary focus.
I´ve got a suggestion as well (maybe not for may, but for one of the next months):
Silence by Shusako Endo - I´m going to read this one this year anyway. I think that this is a book I would like to discuss with someone while reading it.
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Happy to add it, Lillelara. :-)
Which one would we like to read first?
May I suggest the time-tested method of pulling names out of a hat? Unless there are some other titles that have been suggested earlier in this thread or there's something on the list you find really tempting. Or you can just keep pulling names out until you find one you like...
I personally wouldn't mind leaving Silence for a future month (I generally try to find books at the library first, and although it's there, there are many holds -- this may be a good sign).
If you don't have a hat, you could give each a number and use a random number generator.
Random it is! Maybe I will select the next couple of months to make it easier to plan for library loans and ordering.
That could be really useful, for planning ahead.
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@Tannat: The movie adaption of Silence is hitting the theaters this year. That is probably the reason why there are so many holds at your library. But I surely hope that this novel is going to be a good read. I have only heard good things about it.
I´m looking forward to the list :).
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@Lillelara: See, I had no idea. It looks like it's available in local bookstores for me, so that's another option if the library takes too long. It certainly sounds different.
Actually that brings up another problem that we can't really do much about: not all books are equally available in all countries...
And I'm all for planning a few months in advance.
Here is what I came up with for the rest of the year using random selections. Sound good?
May - Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell
June - Bloody Field by Shrewsbury by Edith Pargeter
July - Colour of Poison by Toni Mount
August - The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch
September - First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
October - Silence by Shusako Endo
November - A Deadly Occupation by Suzanne Adair
December - Roman Blood by Steven Saylor
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