What are you currently reading ?

[FierceKitty]

Malaria cures.....

So do salt, woodsmoke, and sunshine. All good for bringing home the bacon.

[Hertsblue]

Didn't he write all Shakespeare's plays?

[FierceKitty]

No, the consensus of desperate Ph. D. candidates is that Shakespeare's plays were written by somebody else with the same name.

[Techno]

Just finished listening to "Raising Steam" by TP.
About to start "Vespasian....Rome's Executioner", by Robert Fabbri.
I'm going to really miss the library van when it stops visiting in a few months !
Cheers - Phil

[Fenton]

Raising Steam is the first TP book I havent bought, got it from the library and it was okish

Does your local library not have the overdrive or oneclick digital system that allows you to download audiobooks to your computer?

[Matt J]

'The Fall of Carthage' Adrian Goldsworthy

so far good overview of the Punic wars

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Raising Steam is the first TP book I havent bought, got it from the library and it was okish

Does your local library not have the overdrive or oneclick digital system that allows you to download audiobooks to your computer?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Whoops - finger troubles. Meant to say - asking Phil to do something technical......

Got my copy of Raising Steam for free on my Kindle.

ianS 

[Techno]

I thought Raising Steam was only OK-ish too, Steve.
Not all that keen on the chap that was reading it, though.....
In some passages it sounds as though he's reading the words one.....at......a.....time, which is slightly irritating.

There is a download system at the library (which I see you've already spotted.... )......When I get the new PC.....and a new pair of speakers...(I blew the last ones up after fixing a new jack-plug onto a damaged lead*. ).....I'll probably give that a go.

* I was ashamed at doing that.....Sort of little soldering job that I can normally do with my eyes shut..... .....Perhaps that was the problem.

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

Armies of Bismark's Wars by Bruce Bassett Powell. It's a pretty good and very readable account of the development and structure of the Prussian army from 1815 to 1867 with an extensive section on the appearance and armament of the army in the 1860s.

[cameronian]

Must read that.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Ooooooh!

[Leman]

And it's only £9 something on kindle. I have the original which only does shades of grey, but I also have the free kindle app on my laptop so I get the screen size figure illustrations in colour there.

[cameronian]

Sorry has to be paper or I can't read it in the bath!

[Ithoriel]

Sorry has to be paper or I can't read it in the bath!

Yeah, I can buy a whole heap of second-hand paperbacks for the cost of a tablet and if I drop one in the bath I wind up with a collection of pages I can still read.