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What Are You Reading? January 2012

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What Are You Reading? January 2012

Post by boswellbaxter » Sat December 31st, 2011, 7:04 pm

Just getting us started . . .
Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles


http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/
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Post by annis » Sat December 31st, 2011, 7:29 pm

And a Happy New Year to all :)

Just started Robert Lyndon's Hawk Quest as recommended by Parthianbow and can't put it down. Hooray-- an intelligent, well-written historical adventure with a real feel for time and place, and not just another excuse for a historically-flavoured gore-fest, even though there's plenty of action.

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Post by Susan » Sat December 31st, 2011, 9:03 pm

Happy New Year...I just finished SKP's Lionheart and will be starting George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords.
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Post by emr » Sun January 1st, 2012, 11:44 am

Marathon: Freedom or Death (Long War #2) by Christian Cameron
"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

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Post by LoobyG » Sun January 1st, 2012, 12:51 pm

Just finished 'Exploring the Lusitania' by Robert D Ballard, a gorgeous book with a gripping tale and great pictures. Now on 'Titanic Voyage - The Odyssey of C H Lightoller' by Patrick Stenson :)

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Vanessa
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Post by Vanessa » Sun January 1st, 2012, 5:35 pm

I'm reading The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
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

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Post by Miss Moppet » Sun January 1st, 2012, 5:50 pm

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

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Post by Elysium » Sun January 1st, 2012, 6:20 pm

Pleasure Unbound by Larissa Ione

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Post by princess garnet » Sun January 1st, 2012, 11:24 pm

The Poison Throne by Celine Kiernan
This is the 1st installment in her Moorehawke trilogy. I bought them awhile back and finally now getting to them.

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Post by Berengaria » Mon January 2nd, 2012, 1:00 am

I am reading Three Maids for a Crown and The Sisters Who Would be Queen for my historical fiction. Happy New Year, everybody! :D
Image My 4 girls!


“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.” ~Lady Montagu

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