Re-posting what I just posted in the January thread since I forgot we are in a new month!  Happy February!! 

Hello!  Just checking in.  I was recently on a trip, and you would've thopught I would've read a lot during travel.  Nope!  I started listening to The Mercies by Kieran Millwood Hargrave (which is just what you'd expect from HF set in Scandinavia - very depressing).  I elected not to bring The Rebels of Ireland with me as it is just too big of a book, but I am almost done with that and should finish up soon.  I brought my Kindle and intended to start a new book while gone, but alas, I never did.  

Alice - The Winter Garden sounds great!  I purchased it! 

Shelley I did enjoy the Winter Garden. I hope you like it too. Reading a cozy right now but there is HF in my future.

I am reading Suppression & Suspion by Mel Star. It is set in 1376 England. One of my favorite Historical mystery series. Excellent glossary of medieval turns. Start with book one Unquiet Bones, if you want to pick this series up.

Alice, I like Mel Starr too.  Good good read:  A Divided Loyalty (Inspector Ian Rutledge, Bk 22) byCharles Todd, 4.5 stars.

Hi, guys!  Not a lot of reading happening here.  I did just finish The Rebels of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd this morning, so there's that.  Still listening to The Mercies, but I haven't made a ton of progress.  Too distracted by watching historical documentaries.  Currently watching a great one on the Plantagenets on YouTube.  I never thought to check, but there are a TON of great documentaries on YouTube.  Anyway, the Plantagenet one starts out with my favorite monarch of all time, King Henry II.  I never tire of his story. 

Reading primarily nonfiction but have started The Tapestry (Joanna Stafford, Bk 3) by Nancy Bilyeau, an author I enjoy reading.  It's set during the reign of Henry VIII who is on his fourth wife at this point and contemplating his fifth.

Well, I landed on The Arctic Fury by Greer McAllister, which I started last night.  

The Arctic Fury is done.  Eh.  It wasn't horrible, but certainly not a really good book. I never really warmed to the main character, I thought there was very little in terms of character development for the other characters, the story flipped between the "present" day in a courtroom to the actual arctic journey, and I would've liked more of the story of the journey to be told, and I just thought it a little too far-fetched in several ways.  A novel on a party searching the arctic for the lost Franklin Expedition would be a very interesting thing, but this book was not that. 

I haven't listened to The Mercies in a couple of weeks. I really need to get back to that. 

Will start an oldie that's been on my bookshelf forever, Snow Moutain Passage by James D. Houston, this evening. 

Shelley I thought Arctic Fury was just so so.   Sounded good but failed to deliver

I finished A Rogue of One's Own (League of Extraordinary Women, Bk by  Evie Dunmore A historical romance set in 1880 England. A little fluffy but brought up good social issues concerning women's rights. Fun read.

Reading The Queen's Governess by Karen Harper.