Well, welcome to May! I think Read of England was a tolerable success, though there were a lot of books I’d planned to read that I didn’t*, and since I did some book-buying to synch RoE with my other challenges (Our Man in Charleston and a history of the Royal Society), my effective progress on Mount Doom was more like regress.On the bright side, I got to touch on some bits of English folklore.

Read of England

Hitler’s Armada: The Royal Navy and the Defense of Britain, Geoff Hewitt
Essex Dogs, Dan Jones
Invasion: from the Armada to Hitler, Frank McLynn
The Tailor and Three Kings, Dan Jones
Tuck, Stephen Lawhead
Robin Hood: A True Legend, Sean McGlynn
The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights, John Steinbeck
Scenes from Prehistoric Life: Britain from the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans, Francis Pryor

The Big Reads:
Suspended in April. Back at now!

The Classics Club Strikes Back:
…. terrible. Terrible. I blame baseball.

Climbing Mount Doom:
Tuck, Stephen Lawhead
The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights, John Steinbeck

The Science Survey:
The Beauty of the Beastly, Natalie Angier (Biology)
Scenes from Prehistoric Life: Britain from the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans, Francis Pryor (Archaeology & Anthropology)

Reading Dixie:
Will the Circle be Unbroken?, Sean Dietrich

Coming up in May:
I think we’re going to be all over the place, really. More England, a possible southern series, hopefully a drive to finish the science survey. I’m currently reading Our Man in Charleston and another entry in Simon Scarrow’s “Eagle” series, in which the Romans move to wipe out the Druids.

[*] Including a biography of Captain Sir Edward Pellew, two historical novels set in the English Civil War, and a few Mount Doom titles.