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Post by lama » Thu November 6th, 2008, 11:51 am

In a prison in Braintree Massachusetts in 1909!
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Vanessa
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Post by Vanessa » Thu November 6th, 2008, 12:03 pm

In late 19thC London at the house of Soames Forsyte, who can't understand why his wife is not particularly fond of him.
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind

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Post by SonjaMarie » Thu November 6th, 2008, 6:13 pm

London, Feb 1587, a few days after Mary Queen of Scots has been executed.

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Vanessa
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Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
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Preferred HF: Any
Location: North Yorkshire, UK

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Post by Vanessa » Thu November 13th, 2008, 5:43 pm

I'm in Birmingham, UK, in 1984 wandering around a shopping centre, playing detective.
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind

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Post by SonjaMarie » Thu November 13th, 2008, 6:05 pm

2060 NY, solving a murder with Lieutenant Eve Dallas.

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Post by michellemoran » Thu November 13th, 2008, 7:01 pm

29 BC, Ancient Rome.
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Ellie
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Post by Ellie » Thu November 13th, 2008, 11:05 pm

1921 In Surrey trying to catch a serial killer.

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Post by KingEricCantona7 » Thu November 13th, 2008, 11:44 pm

Just outside Paris in 1140.

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Post by diamondlil » Fri November 14th, 2008, 2:20 am

I am in a nursing home in the late 1990s reminiscing about the events that took place at an English country home in the 1910s and 1920s.
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Alaric
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Post by Alaric » Fri November 14th, 2008, 6:08 am

Minorca, Spain in 1800 with Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin as they begin to set sail on the Sophie for the first time.

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