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DianeL
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Post by DianeL » Sun May 4th, 2014, 8:09 pm

When I'm not doing some cleanup work in Late Antiquity Gaul, I'm spending a little time in Anne Rice's New Orleans and San Francisco, getting to know a certain family of witches (again/for the first time in about twenty years).
"To be the queen, she agreed to be the widow!"

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Madeleine
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Post by Madeleine » Mon May 5th, 2014, 10:34 am

I loved that trilogy Diane!
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Post by DianeL » Mon May 5th, 2014, 10:34 pm

I loved "The Witching Hour" (and am impressed by it now, anew), but I seem to remember at least one of the other two feeling to me like Anne fulfilling a marketing contract while she got to more good writing in some other novel ... Maybe I just felt there was only so much incest it was enjoyable to wade through. Gracious, even the first sixty pages of Witching is loaded with it.
"To be the queen, she agreed to be the widow!"

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---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers

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Ludmilla
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Post by Ludmilla » Wed May 7th, 2014, 4:22 pm

In one book, the shot heard round the world (in Corcord, MA) has just woken me up. In another, I'm lost in the Dismal Swamp of Virginia.

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Madeleine
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Post by Madeleine » Fri May 9th, 2014, 8:27 am

The Cotswolds.
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Post by Madeleine » Thu May 15th, 2014, 8:57 am

Alternating between Vienna and South-East London.
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Post by Ludmilla » Thu May 15th, 2014, 1:22 pm

I'm on Corregidor Island. The Japanese are closing in.

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Madeleine
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Post by Madeleine » Sun June 1st, 2014, 5:01 pm

Now on the isle of Lewis.
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Post by Madeleine » Thu June 5th, 2014, 10:41 am

Upstate New York.
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Post by Madeleine » Tue June 10th, 2014, 8:20 am

Now also in early 17th century Denmark and late 18thC Cornwall.
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