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May 2011 Book of the Month: As Meat Loves Salt
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
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- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
No, the characters weren't particularly likeable. I don't think we were supposed to like them, were we? One's a murderer and the other's a bit fickle.
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Yes, Jacob did know what he wanted, so much so that it was quite an obsession. It was a bit like 'Fatal Attraction'! He was the male equivalent of a 'bunny boiler'.
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- Margaret
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- Interest in HF: I can't answer this in 100 characters. Sorry.
- Favourite HF book: Checkmate, the final novel in the Lymond series
- Preferred HF: Literary novels. Late medieval and Renaissance.
- Location: Catskill, New York, USA
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What a great expression - I never heard it before!He was the male equivalent of a 'bunny boiler'.
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- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
I think it first started with the film 'Fatal Attraction'where the Glenn Close character boils the daughter's rabbit.
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
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- Currently reading: "The Whitstable Pearl Mystery" by Julie Wassmer
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
Finally finished this last night - well it was left very open wasn't it? I'd liked to have known what happened to the "colony" ie if they survived, but I think it was always a recipe for disaster - idealism rarely works does it, certainly not in these books anyway! Human nature and competitiveness always seems to take over in the end.
I thought it was well-written but unfortunately the story just wasn't engaging enough for me. I preferred the first part of the book and found the second half a bit tedious, I just felt like I was waiting for the inevitable ructions at the end when everything started to go wrong; even without the landowner wanting them off, the cracks were starting to appear and it wouldn't have been long before it all went pear-shaped.
I thought it was well-written but unfortunately the story just wasn't engaging enough for me. I preferred the first part of the book and found the second half a bit tedious, I just felt like I was waiting for the inevitable ructions at the end when everything started to go wrong; even without the landowner wanting them off, the cracks were starting to appear and it wouldn't have been long before it all went pear-shaped.
Currently reading "The Whitstable Pearl Mystery" by Julie Wassmer
- sweetpotatoboy
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- Location: London, UK
Incidentally, I've just come across mention of a 1975 movie on the Diggers movement called "Winstanley" that was based on a 1961 novel by David Caute called "Comrade Jacob"...
The plot is not the same (it's set in Cornwall for a start) but the Diggers and 'Jacob'. Just made me wonder whether it inspired McCann in some way...
The plot is not the same (it's set in Cornwall for a start) but the Diggers and 'Jacob'. Just made me wonder whether it inspired McCann in some way...
- Vanessa
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- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
I have to say I found the parts to do with the 'diggers' quite interesting. It's made me want to read other books sets round this period in time - they seem a little thin on the ground, although I do have Lindsey Davis' Rebels & Traitors which is a bit of a tome!!! A lot of books are set just after the Civil War or perhaps it's just the ones I've read.
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
It's totally different, Madeleine, and it's set after the Civil War. It has more of a mystery to it.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind