Also re-reading Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini. Might go on to a Captain Blood kick next. Every once in a while my Sabatini addiction, which I've had since I was fourteen, reasserts itself. Some people are put off by his somewhat ornate, Victorian writing style, but I like it. His historical research is impeccable, he writes a whacking good adventure story with plenty of unanticipated twists, and his descriptions of swordplay indicate that he knows the intricacies of fencing. After that, I think I'll move from the past to the future by re-reading Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. I seem to be doing a lot of re-reading these days.

Don Firth