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[quote=""princess garnet""]I remember CW Gortner saying he would be writing about Lucrezia Borgia awhile back.[/quote]
He is doing a novel about Coco Chanel, I believe?
[quote=""Mythica""] The Price of Blood: A Novel (Book 2 in the Emma of Normandy Trilogy) by Patricia Bracewell US: Feb 2015 Readers first met Emma of Normandy in Patricia Bracewells gripping debut novel, Shadow on the Crown. Unwillingly thrust into marriage to Englands King Æthelred, Emma has give...
I went back to work in the fall after being retired for 5 years, so have been pretty busy with work. However, I have kept up with my reading..... I have just started reading Ghostwritten by Isabel Wolff....very good book about a ghostwriter with her own "ghosts" who is writing the memoirs of a woman...
[quote=""Nefret""]What time period is that? I'm hanging out in the 14th century in Kingsbridge.[/quote]
It's the twentieth century .....very good reading!
I am beginning The Scandalous Duchess by Anne O'Brien. I've read Anya Seton's Katherine so many times, that I'm used to thinking of Hugh Swynford as a nasty guy. I will lay aside my bias, though, and read on!
I've been busy buying a few books and reading about 20th century events. I've been retired for 5 years but am making a comeback: teaching History 12 in the fall. I'm so excited! I would like to ask if you can recommend any historical fiction taking place in Europe and America from 1914-1991. I would...
I have started reading The Outlander series. I had tried the first book before, but I couldn't get into it. But now, several years later, I'm more interested! I will see where this goes!
[quote=""Misfit""]Ouch! I remember watching The Partridge Family wen it was in prime time. David Cassidy and brother Shaun are the sons of actor Jack Cassidy. IIRC, Shirley Jones (The Music Man) was the second wife, and not their natural mother. David was quite the heart throb back in the day, along...