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What Are You Reading? January 2014

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What Are You Reading? January 2014

Post by boswellbaxter » Wed January 1st, 2014, 2:00 pm

Reading Memoirs of a Lincoln Conspirator by Samuel Arnold for the WIP.

Happy New Year!
Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles


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Post by Misfit » Wed January 1st, 2014, 2:27 pm

I see you've been busy this morning. Happy New year all. Reading Imperial Winds by Priscilla Napier. WWI Russia.
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Post by Vanessa » Wed January 1st, 2014, 2:53 pm

Happy New Year!

I've just started Rogue Herries by Hugh Walpole.
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 Susan » Wed January 1st, 2014, 3:15 pm

Happy New Year! Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell, fourth book in the Saxon series
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Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Wed January 1st, 2014, 3:42 pm

Happy New Year! I'm still reading my usual smorgasbord of books. On the kindle I have EC's Shadows and Strongholds, and still working through Mary Stewart's Arthurian foursome, having reached The Wicked Day (and dreading the end--kind of like SKP's Sunne in Splendour, you know what's coming.)

If a three-book set is a trilogy, what do you call a four-book set? A quadrology? And why is it, exactly, that three books have become so fixed in the popular mind as appropriate for a long story?

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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Wed January 1st, 2014, 7:44 pm

[quote=""MLE""]If a three-book set is a trilogy, what do you call a four-book set? A quadrology? [/quote]

Tetralogy, I believe. Or quartet.

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Post by Nefret » Wed January 1st, 2014, 7:45 pm

Happy New Year! (I almost started a thread just after midnight.)


Still reading A Storm of Swords.
Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}

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Post by Madeleine » Wed January 1st, 2014, 8:07 pm

I'm about to start "The Shadow Year" by Hannah Richell.

Oh, and Happy New Year!
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross

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Post by Lisa » Wed January 1st, 2014, 10:34 pm

Just wanted to join in and say Happy New Year! to everyone. For once I'm not reading anything; for the past few days my partner and I have been glued to the Downton Abbey box set I got for Christmas. We hadn't watched it before (first 2 seasons were not shown in Scotland) and now he's as addicted as I am. Has anyone read any really good novels set in that time period?

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Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
Location: California Bay Area

Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Wed January 1st, 2014, 11:40 pm

[quote=""LadyB""]Just wanted to join in and say Happy New Year! to everyone. For once I'm not reading anything; for the past few days my partner and I have been glued to the Downton Abbey box set I got for Christmas. We hadn't watched it before (first 2 seasons were not shown in Scotland) and now he's as addicted as I am. Has anyone read any really good novels set in that time period?[/quote]
If you like Downton Abbey, you will enjoy The Passing Bells. Can't remember who wrote it.

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