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- Fri January 8th, 2010, 4:31 pm
- Forum: Author Announcements
- Topic: Target Book Club Pick
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4513
- Fri January 8th, 2010, 4:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Funny typos in books
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1726
- Fri January 8th, 2010, 4:26 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Congrats Sheramy, "Roundup: Historical Fiction"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 875
- Fri January 1st, 2010, 5:25 pm
- Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
- Topic: The Young Victoria DVD Release?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 5464
[quote=""Nefret""]Thanks. I meant to look that up. But that actor is nice to look at, so I didn't really mind. :o Erm, I mean... he was good on screen. Hmmm... the actor who plays Prince Albert is almost exactly a year older then me. [/quote] Rupert Friend is in the wonderful "Mrs Palfrey at the Cla...
- Tue December 29th, 2009, 3:36 pm
- Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
- Topic: The Young Victoria DVD Release?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 5464
- Tue December 29th, 2009, 3:31 pm
- Forum: By Author's Last Name G-L
- Topic: Pompeii, by Robert Harris
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4592
I read this one when it first came out and remember liking it very much. I recall being skeptical, because a book with an aqueduct engineer as the main character could have easily become research dump-y...as groovy as Roman water management techniques are, one can only take so much of it. But Harris...
- Tue December 29th, 2009, 3:22 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: What was your favourite read of 2009?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 5148
[quote=""Madeleine""]I read RT several years ago and also expected not to like it, given my love for the original and the fact that I'd read other books by this author which were, to put it mildly, trashy :rolleyes: ! However it's thoroughly enjoyable and I'd recommend it, I was also very surprised ...
- Sat December 26th, 2009, 4:30 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: What was your favourite read of 2009?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 5148
This was not a banner reading year for me, either. There were too many that I started full of enthusiasm and abandoned halfway through, or even if I finished them, it was with an overall feeling of 'meh.' I'm not listing those!! I think for me the top read of 2009 would be Margaret George's Helen of...
- Wed December 23rd, 2009, 3:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: This Day in History
- Replies: 1862
- Views: 153192
- Fri December 11th, 2009, 12:20 am
- Forum: Author Announcements
- Topic: New book deals
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3492