Book readers...what are we reading these days?

I could stand to know  what books are popular also since we lost our only Book Store in town..keep me posted.

In the meantime I bought another reference book today at the thrift shop...an winner of the Pulitzer Prize....it's called "Guns, Germs, and Steel"...by Jaraed Diamond..,.The fates of Human Societies. The author is an professor of physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. this is not an kind of reading for the novel in an story. The Smithsoian says of it....Jared Diamond masterfully draws together discoveries in fields of inquiry as diverse as archeology and epidemiology as he illustrates how and why the human societie sof different continents followed widely divergent pathways of development over the past 13,000 years...was printed in both London  and New York.

those three things most affected mankind over the 13,000 years...Guns...(warfare), Germs (illnesses and disease), and steel (technologies from farming to sailing  ships, wagons and whatnot.. and mining)  I've already been reading little snips of it here and there...he claims if we want to get rid of disease, we have to deal with it in the plants first...followed by animals secondly...he doesn't seem to be covering the aspect of "germ warfare" for right now on an modern level. It has all the looks of  maybe being an supplimental book to read to the course he teaches maybe..it has an reading group guide in the back of the book..like you'd have in an classroom...471 pages. That's no tmany pages for the fact it covers 13,000 years of human history.

I am thinking about reading the book "The mists of Avalon".... if I can find it locally. Also is one just released Aug 16th this summer...called..... Iroquois Supernatural...by Micheal Bastine and Mason Winfield, who are to be one of the guests this week on "coast to coast" talk radio with George Noory. There's an story to that also, we won't get into right now.

You know Shirley I honestly don't get time to read books. The PC keeps me busy.

I might add, for anybody in FB (especially Linda-Mary) I sorry, I just can't get the hang of it. I reckon it's very time consuming, and just can't find the time to work it all out. So if you are wondering why I don't respond in FB, wonder no more. I don't like it and am even thinking of deleting my account (If I can find it that is) lol

Back to books: I did read the Beano once Shirley! lol

Read loads of Bernard Knight, really like that era and the history behind it, soppy me, I even got upset when Crowner Johns old horse died....but at the moment I am reading a Peter Robinson,DCI Banks novel, set in the Peak District,Derbyshire, quite local to where I live, I can relate to the places he sets his stories in....But if you like Bernard Knight Sue, try

Unfortunately a local bookstore is as rare as hens teeth, and now I am as guilty as the next as I buy on-line books, but I do support any independent local shops I find on my travels.    

Try who, Karen? You left it blank.

I LOVE Susanna Gregory's Matthew Barlholemew series, and Candace Robb's Owen Archer. I've read a few Michael Jecks but couldn't get into them. I have not heard of Clare Alys, so will give her a try.

When I want a leisurly read, its medieval murder mysteries for me.

Oh, Karen, you didn't mention Peter Tremayne. His Sister Fidelma series set in ancient Ireland, are wonderful.  

With the Autumn coming up and winter Holidays it's an nice time to tuck in an book for an gift. I somehow how got ino this thng of reading per the Holidays. Such as an Romance Novel over Valentine's Day and and "Angel" book for Christmas...though last years was an book of an family during the depression days celebrating Christmas..no it wasn't "sad" but told things/life as they were back then. How they raised some chickens with brilliant feathers and made some ladies hats (family) with them for Christmas gifts. Sometimes it wasn' t about what you ate, as just being together...and alive. 

Brain working faster than fingers can type, I filled in the middle bit then went back to authors, so nothing is missing....(that's open for debate)

You could try Cora Harrison - My Lady Judge,set in Ireland in 1509, a little bit like a female Crowner John,very good and atmospheric.

You live near the peak district? You lucky woman !!

Quite shocking to hear there's no bookshop in your neighbourhood. Poor you !

I've got no time at the moment. Too busy with the baby and full time job. But there 're a few books waiting on the table.

'Britain by bike' and 'the seven lives of Rome'