Currently reading:

Sharon Penman's Fall's the shadow - like all her books quite good but flawed in several aspects, not least her broken grammar and obsession with people eating 'wafers' whatever they are.

Elizabeth Chadwick's Falcons of Montabard - This author is Bad with a capital italic 'b'. She is unremittingly terrible; I have developed quite a liking for her work because nothing else makes me laugh myself silly as I read. She's very educational to a writer like me; I learn so much about what not to do...

Chadwick's Marsh king's daughter - again I am laughing myself silly while learning how not to write. I get her books from the library, which means they stink both figuratively and literally. You know Chadwick gets really good reviews; people go nuts for her and her characters, hard to beleive, really. A large part of my dislike is the fact I was told she was historical fiction but she is actually historical romance; I hate romance All those gaping plot holes, those convenient happenings to bring our soppy twits closer together, those pages of details I didn't want to know...but then again there are plenty of other things I don't like about her work, none of which have anything to do with that terrible label 'romance'.

Women in medieval life - actually a very interesting book on a very interesting subject, and one of a growing collection of Roman, dark age and medieval women's history on my bookshelf.