Search Results for "Ellis Peters": 14 results
Peters, Ellis: (00) A Rare Benedictine: Ellis Peters' A Rare Benedictine was published after the eighteenth Brother Cadfael novel, meaning I really should not have read it for a long time if I was sticking to strict publication order. However, it's a collection set at...
Peters, Ellis: (01) A Morbid Taste for Bones: I solved the what-to-read problem by deciding that I didn't feel like reading anything sf, not anything at all, and starting a mystery novel that I'd bought a while ago. A Morbid Taste for Bones, Ellis Peters' first "Brother...
Peters, Ellis: (02) One Corpse Too Many: Finished the second Brother Cadfael novel, One Corpse Too Many, yesterday over lunch. This shifts focus from the monastery's politics and concerns to the siege of Shrewsbury in the 12th-century civil war between Stephen and Maud. Most of the...
Peters, Ellis: (03) Monk's Hood: Another nice lesuirely Ellis Peters mystery, Monk's Hood, the third Brother Cadfael novel. The civil war has moved away from Shrewsbury, and during the year-end business, a guest of the abbey is poisoned with one of Cadfael's potions. We...
Peters, Ellis: (03) Monk's Hood (radio play): While I've been getting tired of reading Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels, when some adaptations showed up on BBC7, I figured I'd give them a try. It's the repetitiveness of the plots that's been annoying me, not the characters, and...
Peters, Ellis: (04) St. Peter's Fair: Ellis Peters's fourth Brother Cadfael book, St. Peter's Fair, goes back to the intrigues surrounding the 12th-century civil war between Empress Maud and King Stephen. I wonder if this is setting a pattern, with the even-numbered books being war-related?...
Peters, Ellis: (05) The Leper of Saint Giles: In The Leper of Saint Giles, Ellis Peters' fifth Brother Cadfael novel, we get a few more details about Cadfael's crusading past. While I don't think I'm interested enough to read a honkin' big history on the Crusades, there's...
Peters, Ellis: (06) The Virgin in the Ice: Because I was sleepy yesterday on the train, I needed something less intense to read than what I'd planned (the sequel to The King's Peace), so I read one of the Brother Cadfael novels I'd bought over the weekend,...
Peters, Ellis: (07) The Sanctuary Sparrow: The good news is that I've finished the last big paper required for graduation (handing it in tomorrow, and good riddance). The bad news is that my wrists hurt again; I've clearly pushed my recovery too hard. So, very...
Peters, Ellis: (08-09) The Devil's Novice; Dead Man's Ransom: Two Cadfael novels in two days. The first was Ellis Peters' The Devil's Novice, number eight in the series. Nineteen-year-old Meriel is adamant about taking vows as a monk—yet obviously takes no joy in cloistered life, and screams in...
Peters, Ellis: (10) The Pilgrim of Hate: I was part-way through Ellis Peters' The Pilgrim of Hate when I took the romance detour. Coincidentally, when I went back to it, I discovered that the ObYoungLovers of this book broke a rule so basic I didn't think...
Peters, Ellis: (11) An Excellent Mystery: An Excellent Mystery is the eleventh of Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels and the first in the series that I've read for a while. It's also the first one that I can't say I actually like. Of course, saying...
Peters, Ellis: (12) The Raven in the Foregate: Time to take a break from Ellis Peters' Cadfael novels, after the twelfth, The Raven in the Foregate. Some of the characters are starting to sound all too familiar: "Oh look, another Young Person In Disguise." And I know...
Peters, Ellis: (13) The Rose Rent: The Rose Rent is the thirteenth of Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels, a quiet non-civil war story about a widow who's gifted the house of her marriage to the abbey, in return for one rose a year from a...