What are you reading?

[Green Knight]

Adam Hochschild--To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

[Sonatina]

A Nurse's Duty and A Wartime Nurse - by Maggie Hope

[Green Knight]

George R.R. Martin--A Game Of Thrones

[Green Knight]

O. Henry--The Best Short Stories of O. Henry, selected by Bennet Cerf

[Green Knight]

George R.R. Martin--A Clash Of Kings

[Héctor]

"The nocturnal glory of being great without being anything! The somber majesty of unknown splendour … and all at once I experience the sublime state of the monk in the wilderness or of the hermit in his retreat, acquainted with the substance of Christ in the stones and in the caves of withdrawal from the world. And at this table in my room I’m less of a petty, anonymous employee. I write words as if they were the soul’s salvation and I gild myself with the impossible sunset of high and vast hills in the distance, and with the statue I received in exchange for life’s pleasures and with the ring of renunciation on my evangelical finger, stagnant jewel of my ecstatic disdain." (Fernando Pessoa)

[Green Knight]

Christopher Tyerman--God's War: A New History Of The Crusades

[Sonatina]

I have just read an unusual and good novel on the Gunpowder Plot. by Robert Neville.
I think the thing I noticed about it was how well written it is and I guess you would call it a literary kind of novel.
There are some actual and fictional characters in it. I liked an old wizard that he invents called Vasco. What I would say is that as a novel it does look at the plot from a deeper an even an inside way, which I found very unusual. A rare and interesting read.


http://www.amazon.com/Plots-Parallel.../dp/B00CS3BMQ8




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