Finished: Head in the Clouds by Karen Witemeyer
Set in 1880s Texas, a young woman becomes a governess for a transplanted English baron's young daughter.
Now: Cassandra & Jane by Jill Pitkeathley
Novel about Cassandra and Jane Austen
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What are you reading March 2017?
- princess garnet
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1797
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Maryland
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- Scribbler
- Posts: 8
- Joined: March 2017
- Currently reading: Lincoln in the Bardo
- Interest in HF: I'm writing a historical novel set during the Irish Famine in the 1840s
- Favourite HF book: The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl
- Preferred HF: 19th century New York
- Location: Lower Hudson Valley, New York
Re: What are you reading March 2017?
I'm reading George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo, a curious blend of fictional, dramatic, and non-fictional formats.
Re: What are you reading March 2017?
Never Doubt I Love by Patricia Veryan. Fifth in her Jewelled men series.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
Re: What are you reading March 2017?
Lincoln in the Bardo is on my TBR list, so I'm curious to know what you think of it.tdkerst wrote:I'm reading George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo, a curious blend of fictional, dramatic, and non-fictional formats.
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- Scribbler
- Posts: 8
- Joined: March 2017
- Currently reading: Lincoln in the Bardo
- Interest in HF: I'm writing a historical novel set during the Irish Famine in the 1840s
- Favourite HF book: The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl
- Preferred HF: 19th century New York
- Location: Lower Hudson Valley, New York
Re: What are you reading March 2017?
It's a little disjointed in structure, with dialog presented as if in a play, but devoid of anything resembling stage directions. The poignancy of Lincoln's mourning the death of his son Willie is heightened by Saunders' use of contemporary accounts of the boy's dying. It's a dark subject, but well done.
- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5860
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
Re: What are you reading March 2017?
I'm afraid I've had to ditch "The Book Thief", read about 240 pages and couldn't face another 300.
I've just started "To catch a Rabbit" by Helen Cadbury, debut novel in a new modern crime series.
I've just started "To catch a Rabbit" by Helen Cadbury, debut novel in a new modern crime series.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross
Re: What are you reading March 2017?
Getting ready to start The Mandarin of Mayfair, final book in Patricia Veryan's Jewelled Men series. What a ride.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
- 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
Re: What are you reading March 2017?
I've just started Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, a book I've received to review via Lovereading.
Off Topic
In the 17th century, a wall is built around the deer park of a great house. Wychwood is a world in itself, its ornamental lakes and majestic avenues planned by Mr Norris, a master of the new art of landscaping. A world where, after decades of civil war, everyone has something to hide or something to fear, where dissidents hide in the forest and Londoners fleeing the plague are at the gate.
Three centuries later, one hot weekend, there is a house party at Wychwood. Over the course of the weekend another wall goes up, dividing Berlin. Erotic entanglements blur with distant rumours of historic changes and a little girl, Nell, observes all.
As Nell grows up and as the Berlin Wall falls, the world splits again. There are TV cameras in the dining room, golf-buggies in the park and a Great Storm brewing. A fatwa alerts Westerners to a new ideological faultline. A refugee from the new conflict, the one which is still tearing us apart, seeks safety in Wychwood.
Three centuries later, one hot weekend, there is a house party at Wychwood. Over the course of the weekend another wall goes up, dividing Berlin. Erotic entanglements blur with distant rumours of historic changes and a little girl, Nell, observes all.
As Nell grows up and as the Berlin Wall falls, the world splits again. There are TV cameras in the dining room, golf-buggies in the park and a Great Storm brewing. A fatwa alerts Westerners to a new ideological faultline. A refugee from the new conflict, the one which is still tearing us apart, seeks safety in Wychwood.
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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