1Owlette's December Rush

Hello, all. Have just joined this group, as it seems to be exactly what I need to confront the attractive but intimidating heaps of books on my to-read shelves.

As it's the end of the year, for now my list will just be for the books that I would like to make headway with over December (in no particular order):

1) Gavin Weightman, The Industrial Revolutionaries

2) Lisa Jardine, Wordly Goods

3) Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter Volume 1

4) Thomas Penn, The Winter King

5) William Bernstein, A Splendid Exchange

Not sure if I will manage all of this, as December will include moving house, but hope to make some progress. :)

6) Shuichi Yoshida, Villain

Welcome! All the best with your reading and the move.

Welcome, and get going. That looks like an interesting list!

Just noticed an unintended Touchstone cropping up: I was going to say that I was a little disappointed with Thomas Penn's book, then decided that could be a little impolite in a first post so I deleted it, but LT had already found a novel with the same title. I don't know if you can make a touchstone like that vanish, so: sincere apologies.

Thank you for your welcoming messages.

I'm not sure yet what I think of The Winter King; it does seem to contain quite a lot of assertion (Elizabeth Woodville is 'cold', for example), but I found myself growing interested in Henry VII after reading a popular novelization, and not that much work seems to have been done on him.

Will see how it goes, and report.

Have also added one more to the list ('Villain', which has been on my shelf for far too long).

Welcome 1Owlette!