library read ethan gage novel napoleons pyramids fast moving tough guy meets european villain and exotic women based around napoleons 1798 expedition to egypt it involved lost pyramid treasure chambers and guardians from a still surviving ancient egyptian masonic Isis cult
ends with hero floating off in balloon first of series if anyone is interested
Siege by jack hight "who has MA and is doing his doctorate" one of the many novels about the 1453 siege of constantinople, read like any other medieval war novel even including a typical heroric commander and his band of medival men at arms stereotypes with counter plot of everyday life in the harem and fictional sultana conspiracies
Hights siege novel reminded me of my early byzantine novel "muscovy Kill" about the sultan despatching an assassin to moscow to assasinate princess Zoe Palaiologina before she marries grand duke Ivan III
a little too like in characterisation and plot even more that muscovy kill was created when I was ten years old and I had forgotten all about it until I read Hight!
norse myth a guide, updated version in modern english of the prose and poetic eddas never really realised that the norse gods spent most of their time on morose journeys
age of wonder by richard holmes a good history of late 18th century scientists from ballooning to frankenstein truly great scientists all fortunate to be contemporaries , something that cannot be said about todays science lacking in great science
wrote two mystical poems one beginning either God is there or not God who said that first ?
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