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Lucky you reminded me. I meant to find and add the first in the series to my tbr...I shall do that now.The Season of the Beast

Oh wait a second...Season of the Beast??....this is the same beast (or whatever it actually was) that stalked the French countryside killing and mutilating then vanished?
Have you seen the movie set around this wee beastie, Linda?
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8...

Linda wrote: "At least we don't have a similar logo! Most people seem to think Linda should be Lynda."

I would say your logo is much cuter than mine. You live in Northern Ireland! I love to travel vicariously, and I have never been to Northern Ireland.

I wish Linda (Linda 1) would get a logo. Her brown head is so boring. ;)

Yes it is boring. I have red hair. I will get a logo soon.

A firey red head hey. Not a brownhead at all. :-)
If you don't want to go to the trouble of uploading a photo, you can just pick an image of something off the internet.
Nice to tell you apart from the sea of gr brownheads one day.;)

Wow Terri! I don't know if the film is about the same beast,which does'nt really feature that much in the book of that name. It would be great if it was the same story. What is the movie called?
Northern Ireland is a beautiful place,Linda,well worth a visit,as is the Republic of Ireland.

Vacationed with my grown kids in 1998 in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Stayed at several B & B's and a couple of days in Belfast. Stayed in Portrush and Colerain. Kept to the North.

Belfast is very different now-lots of new buildings,green spaces,all very attractive and modern. The latest addition to The Titanic Quarter,by the river,is The Titanic Centre consisting of 4 actual sized prows of the Titanic,from which you can view the dry dock where she was built.

Terri wrote: "A firey red head hey. Not a brownhead at all. :-)
If you don't want to go to the trouble of uploading a photo, you can just pick an image of something off the internet.
Nice to tell you apart fro..."
I did not mean that brunettes are boring or that the color is boring. It is boring on me. My grandson will fix me up with a logo on Saturday. He is nine and calls me 'My Buttercup." My grandmother had a cow by that name. Don't be surprised if you find a red cow by my name.

Linda wrote: "Wow Terri! I don't know if the film is about the same beast,which does'nt really feature that much in the book of that name. It would be great if it was the same story. What is the movie called?..."

Hi Linda,
Check out that thread link i included in my 'wee beastie' post. It will take you the thread we have in the group on that movie. Great movie!

Bobby wrote: "Vacationed with my grown kids in 1998 in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Stayed at several B & B's and a couple of days in Belfast. Stayed in Portrush and Colerain. Kept to the North."

Lucky. :( I would love to go to Ireland.

Well I have plenty of red cows here on my farm if you need a picture of one. :-)

Linda wrote: "The Divine Blood/Andrea H. Japp
Hi everyone, I'm new to this group. I'm not sure I've got the hang of the link thing,anyway I have just finished 'The Divine Blood'by French writer Andrea H. Japp...."

Thank you so much, Linda! I really wanted to find a good, new (for me) French author to refresh a bit this language, and you did it for me! Andra Japp will go directly in my TBR list! Thanks again!

Yes, obviously it was ANDREA Japp....isn't there an "edit" button here? I guess everybody is too skilled to type wrongly...I swear I do have five fingers on each hand, not a really large one!

Lol, mate, I'd say that one in every two of my posts you will see has been edited. I have the habit of clicking post and not proof reading....and so I am always having to edit. :-)

Chris wrote: "Monet wrote: "Pradeep wrote: "Actually, as far as I know all of Tranter's books are set in Scotland. However, he writes in such a natural flowing style, the dialogue seems so authentic and he has ..."

Chris, have you tried Tranter's 'The Patriot' , 'Macbeth the King', 'Wallace' and the Stuart Trilogy?

Who is currently the best HF writer on the Viking era? Of the earlier authors I liked Henry Treece best.

Hi Pradeep, :-) could you add some book or author links for those posts? So our fellow A&M members can check the books out easily? Thank you. :-) I wouldn't bother people with this, but it does help members find the books others are talking about.

And lookie here. Since Nigel Tranter has been popping up in the threads lately, I decided to set up a thread devoted to him just now.
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8...

OK. Viking's DawnHenry Treece

By the way, the people who don't like Merlin to be 'magical' would like the books by Victor Canning and Mary Renaulton the Arthurian legend.

Pradeep wrote: "By the way, the people who don't like Merlin to be 'magical' would like the books by Victor Canning and Mary Renaulton the Arthurian legend."

This is what's so cool about this site...new people bring in new info..always learning something from someone!!

Sorry. It should be Mary Stewart NOT Mary Renault.Mary Stewart

Hi Simona,I'm glad you will be able to read Andrea Japp in French,as the fourth book in the series is'nt translated into English,and I wonder if it ever will be.
Thanks Terri 'The Brotherhood of the Beast'movie looks excellent,but not the same storyline---the girl in red on a white horse sounds amazing.

You're welcome.
Brotherhood of the Wolf sure is a beautifully filmed movie. It looks like horror, but it isn't. There is the beast and his killings, and that is a bit of horror, but the real story is the story of the Frenchman and his American Indian side kick/tracker.

Morality Play/Barry Unsworth
I started reading Morality Play yesterday,and it will be the first Barry Unsworth novel that I've read. I have a film on DVD called 'The Reckoning' which is based on the book. I haven't watched it yet as I wanted to read the novel first. The movie stars Willem Dafoe and Paul Bettany,and seems to have got good reviews. The story is set in Fourteenth Century England,and is based around a group of travelling entertainers.

I saw a trailer for The Reckoning a while back. Looks interesting.

Speaking of movies...has anyone seen "The Black Death" with Sean Bean? I thought it was very well done. 14th Century time period. Came out in 2010.

Hey that looks good! I am going to see if my library has this DVD...

After a couple days of no reading and not sure which book I wanted to go with, I have settled on;

Lost On Earth

Terri wrote: "After a couple days of no reading and not sure which book I wanted to go with, I have settled on;

Lost On Earth"

That looks great. Keep us up on it!!

I've just started on Dickon by Marjorie Bowen. Another HF lady author of yesteryear who writes well.

I surely shall, bobby. Can't wait to see what it is like. One of my favourite all time books is another book about an Aussie travelling by bike. Be good to find one I enjoyed as much as it. I have high hopes for Lost on Earth.

The Road Gets Better from Here

Pradeep wrote: "I've just started on Dickon by Marjorie Bowen. Another HF lady author of yesteryear who writes well."

I was wondering where I know her name from. I think it is from her


Mary, Queen of Scots

Yes. She has written a large number of HF novels. I haven't read though.

There's been a lot of discussion around Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ of Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles. It's a fascinating way inside that most iconic of heroes. I found the book so engaging I asked Madeline for an in case anyone wants to hear this bright and deep-thinking author speaking out about her book.

As well as the book I mentioned in message 340...I have decided to have another book on the go with it throughout May. Pharaoh's Son by author (and fellow member of our group) Diana Wilder

I'm reading both and . Enjoying both!

You know, I so very nearly read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell the other month. Read this instead. Monster Hunter International

It was really hard to work out, when a book is as long as that Mr Norrell book, whether it is going to drag. the reviews were so mixed about that.
I'll wait to see what you think of it before I decide whether I should read it one day.

It's the chunkster group read so it will be some time before I'm done. I'll let you know though as it's going along. So far, I'm liking it.

Tasha wrote: "It's the chunkster group read so it will be some time before I'm done. I'll let you know though as it's going along. So far, I'm liking it."

Good. :-)

Terri wrote: "As well as the book I mentioned in message 340...I have decided to have another book on the go with it throughout May. Pharaoh's Son by author (and fellow member of our group) Diana Wilder
[bookcov..."

Congratulations, Diana!

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I have just finished Morality Play by Barry Unsworth. It was worth reading,the bits about the hand gestures used by travelling players was something I knew nothing about. What I found irritating was that every few pages the author said something like...if only I had realized this would lead to murder/our downfall etc. This alerts you to what is about to happen next,and spoils the reading experience. Apart from that it was quite good,and I will probably read The Ruby in Her Navel,another Unsworth novel,at some time.

Chris wrote: "Just finished Rufin's Abyssinian set mostly in Eqypt 300 years ago and have a question about horses in historical fiction, in the broad context, not just this specific book. (I do plan to read the..."

It does depend on the breed of horse. You look at the Pony Express as an example. They did a lot of galloping I understand, interspersed with short breaks and eating in the saddle. Same with couriers darting across the land carrying commands and reports from the battle front or missives from Royals.

The horses they ride in Egypt and the desert countries use the Arabian horse and similar breeds (that carry different names) are renowned endurance breeds (due to their incredible low, steady heart rates).

Here is an example.
The Endurance World Championships held in Abu Dhabi.
If you watch them. they ride like that all the way. Gallop and canter, and some trotting, without stopping much. I think it is over 160 kms. Some of the FEI World Endurance races definitely approx 160kms.

Yes that is their slow canter.

I suppose with some countries, couriers have fresh horses at pit stops along the way and so they gallop their horses at as slow gallop for long lengths.

But they are mostly going to do a fast and slow canter instead of a gallop if they are doing longer stretches.

Racehorses do, for example, over 2 kilometres for some races, and that is at top speed only for the end, or the lead out. A jockey will hold their mount back in a reduced gallop until it is time to let them go or whip them on.
A horse can go much further then two kilometres at a gallop if it is kept at its slow gallop.
But you are talking longer distances than that me thinks. :)
In that case they may set out at a gallop, but I have no doubt they settle down into a slow canter for the long haul, like those horses doing their 160km endurance ride.

I want to jump in, again probably foolishly, but the Mongol ponies were low to the ground and ugly, but they could run. They had great lung capacity due to their ugly neck. The Spanish Mustang, brought to the USA in the 1500's, was also low to the ground, had an ugly neck, but had same great lung capacity. The movie HIDALGO is about the ugly pony winning a race against the majestic Arabian. I did a little work on Hidalgo which was released at Blackjack Mountaun, Oklahoma, USA. Trail of Tears, Mississippi Choctaw Indian Culture Comeback and more is interesting topic. I cannot find the link between the Spanish Mustang and the Mongol pony, but I think there is a connection. The long neck exposes more lung area hence better ventillation, or so I was told

Linda! I haven't seen you around A&M for days. :) Nice to see you back in action.

War and Peace is long and sometimes boring. It is not a wake up at 3 a.m. gladly to read book. If I go off on horses again, you will know I need a break from WAR AND PEACE. Thanks for the welcome back.

Peter BarnesThis book, SEVEN DAYS IN MAY comes free from Smashwords. It is 100 pages. I will read along with WAR AND PEACE?