“The Brat was eight years old the first time she rode over the covered bridge that crossed the distance between Lost and Found.”
NOS4A2, by Joe Hill
Pleased to hear Harris has finished the trilogy. I read the first installment and enjoyed it; Loved seeing the evolution of the First Triumvirate through Cicero’s eyes. I look forward to reading the second and third books. Of course now I see all the characters as the actors portraying them in the HBO series Rome.
Once upon a time there was a girl named Summer, whose mother loved her very, very, *very *much.
Summer in Orcus – T. Kingfisher
This book is a record of the rehabilitation of Sybil D’Lye after a traumatic brain injury in the spring of 285. Medical and Legal Disclaimer
Sybil laid with Mary-Belle curled over her back, both of them in just panties, one another’s sweat washing over them like it was coming out of a hose, or a cappucino machine. Chapter 10, first chapter
I’ve Got a Time Bomb a novel by Sybil Lamb
From the Baltic city of St. Petersburg, built on a river marsh in a far northern corner of the empire, the Tsar ruled Russia.
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
I have not seen the series but cannot stop thinking of Rowan Atkinson as Cicero, based on his nerdy description.
Shortly after tea on Friday, may 10, fifteen hours after Hitler drove his steel into the low Countries, Neville Chamberlain reluctantly returned the seals of his office to King George VI, who received them with equal reluctance: “I accepted his resignation,” the sovereign wrote in his diary that evening, “and told him how grossly, unfairly, I thought he had been treated.”
-The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill-Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
That’s actually a fair comparison to David Bamber’s Cicero in the series, although you don’t see much of Cicero’s courage there and Tiro appears only as a minor character. Definitely worth watching if you have the opportunity; I’d put off the GoT finale another year if it meant a third season of Rome.
“Cardinal Lomeli left his apartment in the Palace of the Holy Office shortly before two in the morning and hurried through the darkened cloisters of the Vatican towards the bedroom of the Pope.”
– Conclave, by Robert Harris
“The Day of Demand had been announced months before.”
from Leia: Princess of Alderaan
“Eleven-year-old Virgil Salinas already regretted the rest of middle school, and he’d only just finished sixth grade.”
Hello, Universe, by Erin Entrada Kelly
“The human understanding is not composed of dry light, but is subject to influence from the will and the emotions, a fact that creates fanciful knowledge; man prefers to believe what he wants to be true.” (Francis Bacon)
Wild Thing, by Josh Bazell
“I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.”
–Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“It was a time of darkness…where the cities of the damned were stacked high with the bones of fallen heroes.”
- Joe Kelly, I Kill Giants
“The old Cathay Cinema opposite Fort Canning military base in Singapore was packed for the matinee showing of the latest Rex Harrison film, a screen version of George Bernard Shaw’s play Major Barbara.”
–The Emperor’s Codes: The Thrilling Story of the Allied Code Breakers who Turned the Tide of World War II - Michael Smith
It is about the British work to break Purple and JN-25, something I was unaware of; I thought it primarily an American show.
“They left the aqueduct two hours before dawn, climbing by moonlight into the hills overlooking the port - six men in single file, the engineer leading.”
Pompeii, by Robert Harris
Thoroughly enjoying the Cicero Trilogy was what inspired me to read this, but I’m nearly finished with Pompeii and it is not nearly as good. Conclave was a disappointment too - the ending, or almost the same ending, was very predictable. I’ll go to the library today and maybe pick up Archangel, which I believe is sort of alt-history, and I really liked Fatherland.
Now:
Starlines streak across the bright black.
Aftermath by Chuck Wendig, Book 1 of the Aftermath trilogy (Star Wars)
“They spoke of it then as the dream of a lifetime, and for many, for all the difficulties and setbacks encountered, it was to be one of the best times ever.”
– The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, by David McCullough
“The heels of military boots, striking marble floors, made a sound like thrown stones.”
Egg & Spoon, by Gregory Maguire
Sundown: I am standing on Roniger Hill, and I am trying to see myself as if atop a giant map of the United States.
– PrairyErth (a deep map) by William Least-Heat Moon