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April 2015 what are you reading?

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Amanda
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Post by Amanda » Thu April 16th, 2015, 5:00 am

I enjoyed The Sister Queens too.

I am reading Longbourn by Jo Baker. Apparently there are plans for a TV series.

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Lisa
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Favourite HF book: Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
Preferred HF: Any time period/location. Timeslip, usually prefer female POV. Also love Gothic melodrama.
Location: Northeast Scotland

Post by Lisa » Thu April 16th, 2015, 9:18 am

[quote=""princess garnet""]I read that novel when it first came out and enjoyed it.[/quote]

[quote=""Amanda""]I enjoyed The Sister Queens too.

I am reading Longbourn by Jo Baker. Apparently there are plans for a TV series.[/quote]
I'm enjoying it so far, I haven't read anything else on these ladies yet, except for Eleanor's appearances in SKP's Falls The Shadow (and I can't remember very much there).

Will Longbourn be a TV series or film? Either way I will definitely watch it, I loved the book.

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Misfit
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Post by Misfit » Thu April 16th, 2015, 2:49 pm

Almost done with Emma Drummond's A Captive Freedom. Having a very hard time putting it down and snuck the book into work today. Boer war, love both the heroine and hero.
At home with a good book and the cat...
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Amanda
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Post by Amanda » Thu April 16th, 2015, 11:31 pm

You are right. It looks like Longbourn will be a film.

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Vanessa
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Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
Preferred HF: Any
Location: North Yorkshire, UK

Post by Vanessa » Fri April 17th, 2015, 9:59 am

I'm reading The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez.
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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Madeleine
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Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
Location: Essex/London

Post by Madeleine » Mon April 20th, 2015, 11:24 am

I've just started "Death at la Fenice" by Donna Leon.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross

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princess garnet
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Post by princess garnet » Tue April 21st, 2015, 2:50 pm

The Will to Survive by Bryan Cartledge (NF)
History of Hungary

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Post by fljustice » Tue April 21st, 2015, 6:47 pm

Finished City of Women (the second half better than the first), Divergent (a fun romp even with plot holes), and started on Michelle Moran's The Heretic Queen
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Vanessa
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Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
Preferred HF: Any
Location: North Yorkshire, UK

Post by Vanessa » Thu April 23rd, 2015, 5:11 pm

I was going to read The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman, but have decided to read The Zlost Garden by Katharine Swartz instead. It's a book I've received via Lovereading.co.uk to read and review. It's due to be published in May so will have to get cracking!
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind

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sweetpotatoboy
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Thu April 23rd, 2015, 5:18 pm

I'm near the beginning of two books: the novel "The Miniaturist" by Jessie Burton and a non-fiction "The Great Survivors: How Monarchy Made It Into the Twenty-First Century" by Peter Conradi.

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