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What are you reading June 2012?
What are you reading June 2012?
Almost finished with Windhaven Plantation. Interesting read, and not the romance one would have expected from the cover.
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
Started EC's Lady of the English yesterday. This time period has always fascinated me.
Faith L. Justice, Author Website
About 40% done with Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow by Juliet Grey
~Susan~
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http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3566
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
- Margaret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2440
- Joined: August 2008
- 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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I was not crazy about The Dovekeepers, though Alice Hoffman has been one of my favorite novelists. I think the book could have been very good if it had been edited to prune out the overwriting. (Reviewed at www.HistoricalNovels.info.) Perhaps she just got overawed by the historical gravity of Masada and couldn't stop the fount of prose - I think that happens to novelists sometimes.
Just finished Bring Up the Bodies, myself, and am starting on C.W. Gortner's The Queen's Vow. High time, I think, for a writer to tackle Queen Isabella's story again - other novels about her life seem awfully dated now.
Just finished Bring Up the Bodies, myself, and am starting on C.W. Gortner's The Queen's Vow. High time, I think, for a writer to tackle Queen Isabella's story again - other novels about her life seem awfully dated now.
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