What are you reading??

Duracuir1

Summer by the pool with a book. No wifi no problem.

I finished the Landry book yesterday. 1990.

The Space Eagle? The artwork is enough to encourage me to read the first few pages, to see if it’s worthwhile. 1970.

If Moonwatches are mentioned, I will bump this thread.

noelekal

In my lifetime quest to read biographies of each British monarch since William the Conqueror I am reading this biography on George VI. I am impressed with this narrative. At 805 pages it is a fairly weighty tome, a detailed account of his life and includes the background whirlwind of history of the first half of the 20th century. He was an admirable person, a royal "spare" who retained dignity and character and worked himself into an early grave. I am impressed with him.

noelekal

amikoyan, you're mean, you are!

I feel defeated after reading your post, heh!

This site is even more discouraging! https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/KingsQueensofBritain/

I only have 25 monarchs plus Cromwell on the shelves and have read only 19 of those so far over 40-something years, in between reading other history that interests me. I need to plug gaps, need to obtain better biographies of one or two, and, sadly now, need to add a really good complete biography of Elizabeth II. The small one on her that we have here was published in 2019.

Any good Elizabeth II biographies out now that could be suggested will be appreciated.

Years ago I held a goal of reading every book in our home library twice, because I can't recall a book really well unless I read it a couple of times. There are two problems with that. The library has grown through the years. The number of years that I have remaining before shuffling off this mortal coil have diminished. I've not read through our entire library even once and there is really good stuff within it that needs reading.

As my mother used to say: "You have bitten off more than you could chew!"

Here's the bookcase containing the monarch biographies.

A closer look at the British section of the bookcase.

noelekal

amikoyan, you're mean, you are!

I feel defeated after reading your post, heh!

This site is even more discouraging! https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/KingsQueensofBritain/

I only have 25 monarchs plus Cromwell on the shelves and have read only 19 of those so far over 40-something years, in between reading other history that interests me. I need to plug gaps, need to obtain better biographies of one or two, and, sadly now, need to add a really good complete biography of Elizabeth II. The small one on her that we have here was published in 2019.

Any good Elizabeth II biographies out now that could be suggested will be appreciated.

Years ago I held a goal of reading every book in our home library twice, because I can't recall a book really well unless I read it a couple of times. There are two problems with that. The library has grown through the years. The number of years that I have remaining before shuffling off this mortal coil have diminished. I've not read through our entire library even once and there is really good stuff within it that needs reading.

As my mother used to say: "You have bitten off more than you could chew!"

Here's the bookcase containing the monarch biographies.

A closer look at the British section of the bookcase.