What book are you currently reading?

[DonaCatalina]

I just finished Murder of a Medici Princess by Caroline P. Murphy (Author)
Wow. I could hardly put it down. It was fascinating and informative.
I also explains why Spain obviously did not trust the Medicis after Cosimos death and why Eleonora's brothers were recognized in her Spanish title rather than one of her children.

[Butch]

A Curse Dark as Gold by E.C. Bunce

[groomporter]

I just picked up a biography of the man who was probably the inspiration for Kipling book  The Man who would be King and the movie by the same title ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073341/ ) starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine

The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Would-King-Afghanistan/dp/0374529574/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289270727&sr=1-3

[julessweetie]

Brief Gaudy Hour...A novel of Anne Boleyn  By: Margaret Campbell Barnes

[Mairte]

Wow and....WOW. Got through Diana Gabaldons "Outlander" and just started reading "Dragonfly In Amber". I am totally in love with the series so far.
Someone recommended me Sara Donatis "Into The Wilderness" books so going to try those too.

[Mairte]

This is late, but Tipsy Gipsy, thank you for telling me about the Outlander series....and HOT SCOT is right!!!! 

[Evie McCann]

Currently reading a novel titled "The Queen of Subtleties". It's to Elizabeth from Anne in the form of a letter.

[Lairde Guardn]

Trinity by Leon Uris is my current read, just finished Harvest Home by Thomas Tyron (2nd time I read it)

[metalcelt]

The first book in the Bearers of the Black Staff series by Terry Brooks. The Sword of Shannara was my introduction to Science Fiction/Fantasy literature.

[Mairte]

As said, I am reading "Dragonfly In Amber" but at the moment, reading two books, started the other this weekend. Its "Shadowheart" by Tad Williams.

[groomporter]

I just downloaded Memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Soldier and Traveler
http://www.archive.org/details/soldiertraveller00gardiala

Gardner was born in Wisconsin in 1785 and became a adventurer and mercenary in Afghanistan serving various rulers and for several years was the Commandant of Artillery for a Maharaja. I first ran across a fiction description of him in the novel Flashman and the Mountain of Light

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gardner_(soldier)

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

"Pirate Hunting" by Benerson Little.  The third in his series of excellent historical treatises on piracy and pirates.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

KILLER POLITICS by Ed Schultz  and The Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follet

[Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury]

"The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova

[Taffy Saltwater]

The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez, about a robot detective.  It's got a nice scifi/noir feel to it, has some nice snappy dialogue, and an interesting story line.  From the same writer who brought us Gil's All Fright Diner.