Currently reading
Roman Blood
Progress:
171/401 pages
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Progress:
208/557 pages
Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and On the Civil War
Les bûchers de Bocanegra
The Songs of the Kings
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
The Hobbit
Livy: History of Rome, Vol. I, Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library: Latin Authors, Vol. 114)
Epic like any good foundation story and Rome's foundation is no exception. I knew the facts of the legendary tale : Aeneas, Remus, Romulus but I had little knowledge about the whole Royal period. I knew some of the names, some of the legends (I'm thinking of the Horace and Curates here of which Corneille wrote a pretty good play that I intend to reread soon). The translation is good, the style flows nicely and the narration is not dragging the reader down. This was written thousand of years ago and it's still interesting, fresh and compelling.
 - Livy)