What are you reading tonight DU? Me, "Cleopatra" by Stacy Schiff. Full of detail. I've never read

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about that part of the world, in those times, except for the bible, so I'm excited.

[taterguy]

1. A post on a message board

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4. LOL!

[touche]

2. I'll be wrapping up

"Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre

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5. Welcome to the DU touche!

:hi:

[Angry Dragon]

3. Jesus the Heretic

[yellerpup]

6. Getting into one I missed: "Thirteen Moons"

by Charles Frasier. I am right there with him in Wayah tonight. Going back to it right now. :hi:

[femmocrat]

7. I loved that book!

Enjoy!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. Citizen Washington. a novel by William Martin

http://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Washington-William-Martin/dp/0446521728

From Library Journal
Shortly after George Washington's death, one of his outspoken critics, Hesperus Draper, learns that Martha has burned her husband's letters. Hoping to unearth a scandal, Draper employs his nephew to discover what they contained. The young man travels widely to interview Washington's acquaintances and assembles their comments about his life. The picture that emerges in this latest historical novel from Martin (Annapolis, LJ 5/15/96) is of a man whose ambition and luck often outstripped his military abilities but who grew in stature as the Colonies melded into a nation. Family, friends, slaves, Indians, military allies, and political enemies all provide perspectives on events. Avid students of the Colonial period may appreciate the multiple viewpoints, but readers with little interest in military maneuvers will be dismayed by the many pages devoted to battle strategy. Washington's engagement in military and political skirmishes left little time for romance, family life, or scandal. Anyone looking for those staples of historical fiction will be bored or disappointed.
-AKathy Piehl, Mankato State Univ., MN
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

[Rowdyboy]

9. Just finished "Anthony and Cleopatra" by Colleen McCullough....last in

a seven part series on the final 100 years of the Roman republic. I highly recommend the whole series if you are interested in the period. What insanely interesting people!

[kimi]

10. That is an excellent read!

I've read it twice, that's how much I liked it. If you're interested in that era, it's a dramatization, but "Cleopatra's Daughter" by Michelle Moran is also pretty good, you might want to check it out.

Happy reading!

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12. Oh good. I'm glad you liked it that much. My mother didn't so I was a little wary.

[graywarrior]

11. Caligula by Camus

I'm still alive!

[kentauros]

13. The same book I posted last time that no one was interested enough

to comment on.

Yes, I'm a slow and infrequent reader.

[dimbear]

14. The Master and Margarita.

It is a very strange book. I'd heard about the devil down in Georgia, this is the devil in Moscow.

[Paradoxical]

15. Expect Resistance - A field guide to anarchy.