Ka-ching. Ka-ching. Ka-ching. Thanks!
Just finished reading Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot with my teenage son. Despite its datedness (everyone smoking, casual male chauvinism, outdated technology), it’s still pretty good. Next up for us: Heinlein’s Podkayne of Mars.
Yes, good movie. The opening of Cold Mountain depicts the Battle of the Crater, during the siege of Petersburg: Battle of the Crater - Wikipedia
Glory is, IMHO, the best-ever Civil War movie, and is pretty gritty and realistic, as well.
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I had just finished reading about the Battle of Cold Harbor, and I always get those confused in my head.
But yeah, Cold Mountain. Thanks to the above for correcting me and adding additional information.
**Dung Beetle ** - I think you’d like the next Bloody Jack just as much, even without Kellgren. However, check & see if your library is part of a larger consortium for audiobooks/ebooks? For example, Indiana Digital Media has all the Bloody Jack books in audiobook format. What do you think of The Night Circus? I also listened to Jim Dale’s reading & enjoyed it, tho found the time shifts a bit confusing at times. It was a good co-read/listen with Priest’s The Prestige (which I think I liked better).
Still working on Hedley’s… I mean Hedy’s Folly - tho am not sure I’ll finish it before the Kindle library loan expires. It’s competing with A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness - a spooky, heartbreaking novel about a boy dealing with his mother’s illness and visitations by The Green Man. It’s based on an idea from Siobhan Dowd, who I’m not familiar with, but may have to investigate.
My audiobook is Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - it started a bit slow, with a frame story, but once we get into Abe’s life and his first encounters with vampires, it picks up nicely. I’m not a Lincoln scholar, but Grahame-Smith seems to have blended historical fact with his supernatural fiction quite well; to the point where (for example) I’m not sure if Lincoln actually went to New Orleans when he was 21 or not… tho I’m reasonably sure he didn’t meet Edgar Allen Poe.
I finished The Ritual in record time. Every time someone took their eyes off me, I’d grab the book and dive back in, dying to know what happened next. The first half of the book was terrific. The second half was very different, and though I was still compelled, I was disappointed with it overall. The characters were interesting, the situation was great, but the supernatural stuff didn’t work out for me.
I think I would like to read more from this author, and hope he can do better next time.
Next up, something dependable: Flashman and the Mountain of Light.
Thanks, Politzania, I will check into that!
The Night Circus is just okay so far, but I’m getting a bang out of Jim Dale. I only know him from Pushing Daisies, but I had heard he did a smashing job on the Potter books. He read some sentence like, “He hung his hat on the hat-stand”, and I was completely distracted for a few moments, trying to understand how he took such utilitarian words and made them seem somehow interesting and important…
^The Jim Dale audiobooks are my preferred method of reading the Harry Potter novels. He’s really great.
An article on the filming of Cold Mountain that may be of interest: http://clevelandcivilwarroundtable.com/articles/comment/blue_gray_silver_screen.htm
Those audiobooks should be available starting today for downloads from your local library. 
Finished that, it’s good but not outstandingly good.
Now about 20% through Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art.
I’m loving it so far. Well written, fascinating (to me) topic.
Sorry to say I gave up on Hide Me Among the Graves. Hope you like it better than I did. Started The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye, about a bartender recruited for the new NYPD in 1845.
Linkto April’s thread.
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. It’s a terrific YA steampunk novel.