March 2015: What are you reading?

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Sun March 1st, 2015, 2:09 pm

I've just started Time's Echo by Pamela Hartshorne, a time slip novel set in the present day and 1577.

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Sun March 1st, 2015, 2:11 pm

Thanks for starting the new thread. The Long Masquerade by Madeleine Brent.

fljustice · Post by **fljustice** » Sun March 1st, 2015, 4:39 pm

About 3/4 through The Dream Lover and only a few pages into The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb.

Divia · Post by **Divia** » Sun March 1st, 2015, 4:44 pm

In two days I'm gonna get myself a copy of Rebel Queen

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Sun March 1st, 2015, 6:44 pm

I'm a little more that halfway through The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki, a novel about the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, Elisabeth of Bavaria (Sisi).

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Mon March 2nd, 2015, 9:56 am

I've just started "The Devil in Amber" by Mark Gatiss.

Ash · Post by **Ash** » Mon March 2nd, 2015, 12:24 pm

The Millstone by Margaret Drabble. Not a HF when it was written in the early 60s but is now - about a single woman deciding to keep her baby in the 1950s. Liking it very much so far.

Divia · Post by **Divia** » Mon March 2nd, 2015, 3:17 pm

[quote=""Susan""]I'm a little more that halfway through The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki, a novel about the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, Elisabeth of Bavaria (Sisi).[/quote]

How is that? I saw it and was interested. Would you recommend?

Nefret · Post by **Nefret** » Mon March 2nd, 2015, 11:34 pm

The Price of Blood by Patricia Bracewell

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Tue March 3rd, 2015, 12:17 am

[quote=""Divia""]How is that? I saw it and was interested. Would you recommend?[/quote]

So far, I do like The Accidental Empress. I've been interested in Empress Elisabeth's family, so seeing them portrayed as characters in a novel humanizes them for me. The facts in the novel seem fairly accurate. I've been to Vienna, so I have visited the palaces and churches there and the Imperial Crypt where the Habsburgs are buried. That always helps with the settings.