What are you reading right now?
I am plunged into research mode, and I am rewarding myself with a novel for fun each time I finish a book for research. I just finished Laura Lippman’s What the Dead Know last night. It was great! Good character development (I’m a sucker for character development) and an unexpected yet oh so perfect ending.
Last week, I read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, of course. I wasn’t one of these people who skimmed it in a couple of hours and then blabbed about the ending. When I was in a waiting room last week with my precious Harry, someone offered to tell me the ending and I just about did violence upon her head.
The book that I read for research last week was The History of Ukrainian Costume. And just before Harry Potter, I read Europe’s Steppe Frontier, 1500 – 1700,
The book I’m starting today is A Description of Ukraine by Guillaume LeVasseur. It is a traveller account from the 1600s. I have flipped through it already and it looks awesome!
I also just joined Goodreads.
Haven’t decided what fun book I’ll be reading next. Any suggestions?
I’m reading Harry Potter right now, but (just like secretly opening my Christmas presents) I read all the spoilers and know how it ends. Oh well, I’m still enjoying it!
I’m doing research too. All about the Medici’s in Florence, Italy. Been thinking about doing an historical fantasy after ‘The Princess Heir’ is finished, something really edgy and kind of sexy for upper YA. Am absolutely mesmerized by the Renaissance. What an incredible time period to have lived in! 😀
Hi Maggie,
You READ the spoilers before finishing the novel? Egad. I am shocked and appalled.
Sounds interesting! The countries that I’m researching didn’t experience the Black Death and so the 14th to 16th centuries are like an alternate universe to western Europe. No Dark Ages and thus no Renaissance.