What I am reading

Strangers on the train in the morning ask me what i am reading. It is a little strange. But I really like the books i am reading ( in general). It is a good opening for conversation, 'cause i will almost always talk about it.

I have been on a historical fiction kick lately. It started with a random book from a used bookstore that caught my eye. Lots of good things start that way. The Sunne in Splendor http://www.sharonkaypenman.com/sunne.htm by Sharon Penman was excelent. I then serched out several others by her. . All excelent. These were all clearly well reserched Hiistorical Epic Sagas. I cried and fell in love with the charactors. They are long. She included notes about resources and things she changed for story purposes. Her more recent stuff had less apeal for me. It was a much shorter format and much more fiction (mystery) in a historical setting. Still interesting and a decent read, but it didn't have the same grip for me that her older works did.
So i went looking for more...I have been through several authors at this point (can't remember them all). Right now I am enjoying Margret George, but I must say, I havent caught myself sobbing over the fate of a charactor yet. Decent, hard to put down, but not the shout it to all friends and family and own several coppies so I can share them kind of book. (last one of those for me ( prior to Sunne) was Tad Williams Otherland series. I think we had 3 copies of the first bookin that series)