What are you reading now?: April 4, 2026

Currently working on Carl's Doomsday Scenario. Gallipoli and Empires of the Normans will follow.

I'm about two thirds of the way through the excellent The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom.

Started: Henry V's Brother, John of Lancaster: Regent of France by Joanna Arman
Biography of John of Lancaster, Henry V's younger brother.

Tonight I'm going to start reading my Early Reviewer, When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy by Beronda L. Montgomery.

I finished up Kalevala finally. Now I've started 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed.

I plan to start reading a book that has over 1000 pages London by Edward Rutherfurd I guess I won't be making my reading goal this year. I am also still reading Amanda by Kay Hooper.

I just started reading When Maidens Mourn by C. S. Harris and finished (at last!) Going Clear by Lawrence Wright. Oh, and also The Unruly Queen by Flora Fraser because of Harris' Sebastian St Cyr historical mystery series.

>7 threadnsong: I read a biography about Caroline of Brunswick titled Rebel of the Regency by Ann Foster (2025). The biography by Flora Fraser is one of the sources listed in her bibliography.

I finished the compelling and excellent The Yellow House: A Memoir about several generations of an extended black family in New Orleans and, ultimately, how they were affected by the Water (i.e. Hurricane Katrina). One of the very best memoirs I've ever read. My review is on the book's work site and on my Club Read thread.

I've now started another memoir: Spycatcher: the Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer by Peter Wright about the author's years in the British Secret Service post-World War 2.

A Slowly Dying Cause
by Elizabeth George
4/5 stars
This is an Inspector Lynley novel about Michael Lobb who was found dead while Lynley and Havers search for the killer! Mystery

Better late than never.

The new thread is up over here.