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Rowdyboy

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19. The last book I read before "Silver Pigs" was Saylor's "Catalina's Riddle"....I'm going to the
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 10:46 PM
Jul 2012

library tomorrow to get his first in the series-I think its called "Roman Blood". I enjoyed both tremendously but of the two I kind of favored Gordianus. In the last three years I've read and then reread Colleen McCullough's "Masters iof Rome" 7 book series which focuses on the politicians so it was interesting to me to see some of the same events told through the eyes of a common man.

Once I get into a series I won't be satisfied until I've read them all-lucky I live two blocks from a cooperative library!

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