What are you currently reading ?

[Malbork]

Techno,

just remembered another good Roman read: Britannia, Part I: The wall by somebody Denham. Bit of an uninspiring title but the tale rolls along well enough - set just as Roman power is declining and everyone is going up and over the wall; I haven't quite finished it because I stupidly left it at my father in law's, but three-quarters of the way in.  I'll definitely be looking out of others in this series

[Techno]

Thank you, again !
Cheers - Phil

[kipt]

Just finished "The Battleship Era" by Peter Padfield.  Used book, not sure where I bought it, but printed in 1972.

Great book on the development of the battleship.

[Hertsblue]

In the middle of Bretheren by Robyn Young. The Crusades from both sides at the same time. Touted as a Sunday Times best-seller. Not sure why, though. Lacks a little medieval atmosphere to me.

[FierceKitty]

Britannia, Part I:The Wall... set just as Roman power is declining...

omnia in omnibus, later modo es alter in muro.

o magister! noli pueros laedere illos!

ravis ab roseis

[Hertsblue]

According to Google translate:

all in all, brick way, you are on the wall.

O Master! Children do not hurt them!

gray from rosy

[FierceKitty]

The name Floyd meansgrey.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

By the way, which one is Pink?

[FierceKitty]

roseus.

[FierceKitty]

I think I've sorted out the Moleworthian Latin by now. It's been a very long time.

[Techno]

By the way, which one is Pink?

Have a cigar (for the quote, Will.)
You're gonna go far. 
Cheers - Phil

[Chad]

Didn't know Mole spoke Latin in 'Wind in the Willows'! 

[Ithoriel]

My first professional post was as a school librarian. I was chatting to a teacher of one of the remedial classes and she commented that her class had arrived for class that morning repeatedly singing a line from Pink Floyd's "The Wall." The line in question being,"We don't need no education." In her view the class then spent 45 minutes proving how wrong they'd been

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Have a cigar (for the quote, Will.)
You're gonna go far. 
Cheers - Phil

Glad someone got the quote! 

[Techno]

 
Cheers - Phil

[kipt]

Just finished "Napoleon's German Division in Spain, Volume II: The Germans in Catalonia 1808-1813", by Digby Smith.

It felt disjointed to me because the author follows a unit through a campaign and then follows another through the same period.  This makes the text repetitive to a certain extent, but is necessary.  Lots of small actions are mentioned which would make good small scenarios.

[Malbork]

Britannia, Part I: The Wall

It will be interesting to see if the rest of the proposed series is also inspired by Pink Floyd albums. I think they did a live one in Pompeii back int he '70s so there's definitely potential.

Robyn Young

Crikey!! I read one of hers a few years ago and found it to be absolute tosh - also set in the Crusades, with apprentice Templar knights telling the Grand Master where to get off and the love interest finally paying her own way to Jerusalem by boat like some gap-year student.  Plenty of deatil but just didn't hang together; have avoided her stuff ever since, despite being tempted by the covers

[Techno]

It will be interesting to see if the rest of the proposed series is also inspired by Pink Floyd albums. I think they did a live one in Pompeii back int he '70s so there's definitely potential.

The Final Cut ? 

I've run out of 'Roman' books to listen to at the mo'.....So back to the 'thrillers'.
Alex Gray's " A pound of flesh" at the moment.

A little different.....A serial killer targets street walkers in Glasgow.....And someone else is targeting the serial killer.....Only she keeps getting it wrong and is becoming a 'serial killer' herself.

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

Thankfully nobody targeted me when I was walking through the streets of Glasgow.

[Techno]

In this particular story... To be at risk....You'd either have to be a streetwalker, or any man driving around in a white Mercedes who picks one up,  DP 
Cheers - Phil