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SARUM

I have finished this 7000 year span book about the times and people of the Salisbury Plain in England.

Needless to say, the people are different at different times but there is a rough genealogy to show traits and ups and downs in long family histories.

So, it is a collection of very well written short stories with a common theme of locale and family.

I felt a slowing of my interest about the time we hit the War of the Roses; a little bit more about British history than I wanted to know but then it kicked up again and goes out as it came in, roaringly.

I went immediately to the first in a 24 book series by Bernard Cornwell; an adventure series. Sharpe's Tiger.

Sharpe is a resourceful private in the British Expeditionary Forces in India in 1799. Since we will have 24 books about his exploits, I assume, that his situation in the world will rise a bit from where he presently resides.

I already like him and feel like hissing the few villains who have appeared.

It is formulaic but a good formula. I have a feeling that I may already be sunk. If I get and like the second one, put a fork in me. I am done.