1356 by Bernard Cornwell. Its cheesey typical damsel in destress stuff set in a bloody french chevauchée, but I'll be damned if it aint a whole lof of fun. Think the expanse, but with horses as worse charachters.
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I loved his Warlord Chronicles trilogy, and I'm onto reading the Sharpe series now. In terms of story he definitely has a formula that he sticks to, but it's a really entertaining formula so I can't really fault him for it.
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I'm reading In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang today.
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@lynn_literary @Kamirose and i am from Mastodon: about to start reading, "Don't Save Anything" by James Salter (would this comment be posted to both kbin and lemmy, as well as Mastodon in my home instance? That would be like magic)
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Black House, by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Pattern Recognition, William Gibson.
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Hello, first post here. :D I'm reading A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford.
Welcome!
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