Just finished THE GREATEST KNIGHT by Elizabeth Chadwick, and I heartily recommend it.

[raccoon]

It's a historical novel that deals with William Marshall, a knight who was in service to several of Henry II's sons.

The author makes the period come alive with details of medieval life, regarding clothes, food, smells, etc. (I hate it when an author disneyfies the Medieval period--or any other historical period.)

If you like Sharon Kay Penman's books, you'll probably like this one too.

Now I've got to get hold of THE SCARLET LION, which continues the story of William Marshall.

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1. I finished 'The Given Day' by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River)

It deals with the rise of unions in Boston circa 1919. A great read. Now I'm hip deep in 'Trinity', a book I'm surprised I never read before. Maybe I was put off by the 900 plus pages, but I'm hooked.

[Adelante]

2. I'm reading a lovely memoir - "Too Close to the Falls" by Catherine Guildiner

Written from a gifted child's perspective about small town life in the 1950s. She would probably have been diagnosed with ADD at a later time and medicated, but back then, the doctor prescribed working in her father's drug store at the age of four, because she had too much energy. Her co-worker and best friend was an illiterate, but brilliant black man named Roy and together they delivered prescriptions for more than a decade all over Niagara County NY, with many adventures along the way. I can't put it down.

Edit: Apologies. I just noticed I was posting in Fiction. Anyway, it does read like fiction.