AmateisGal
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Last night I finished reading The English Spy by Daniel Silva. It's the latest installment in the Gabriel Allon series. Very good.
Henry Tudor on the other hand...
His son the VIIIth certainly had cold blood for murder.
...caught a few episodes of The Tudors a few years ago in of all places, Vegas.
The actress who played Anne Boleyn, Natalie Dormer completely captured the lady's personality.
And so gorgeous.
A book by a guy who was on the Bismark...when it was sunk...about the sinking!
The whole Tudor line seemed a little inclined to the violent side! I thoroughly enjoyed The Tudors. Mmmm...might be time to dig out those DVDs, if my wife hasn't donated them somewhere!
The Richard III book was an interesting read, by the way.
I'm currently reading the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson (An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light). I'm only on the first book in the series, but it is excellent thus far. I'm sure the others will be as well.
" They imagined American families snuggled around the fireplace, flipping through the pages and dreaming of a better life."
Over the course of the last 2 years (with other books thrown in, of course) I finished reading all 8 "Bruno Chief of Police" books by Martin Walker. Not sure how I got sucked into the series, but I am indeed sucked-in. The series is basically about a good natured, very justice/fairness-minded policeman who's beat is the very small French town of St. Denis, located in the Perigord. Murders and criminality abound and he is always solving cases and locking up bad guys... at least when he is not cooking up magnificent meals for his regular circle of friends and pulling corks from wonderful bottles of local wine. He also spends a good deal of time riding his horse in the woods or hunting or attending various village celebrations. Then there is "the Brigadier", a shadowy big-wig in the French intelligence service who is always dragging Bruno into covert affairs of State. And let's not forget Bruno's love life: He longs to find "Ms Right" and settle down and have a family, but he always seems to fall for free-spirited, career-minded beauties who rake his heart over the coals and then decide that country life is not for them. Bruno's cases often deal with the ghosts of WWII, etc. Some of the books are better than others. It doesn't matter: I'm hooked. Book #9 will be coming out next summer. I am already looking forward to it.