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May 2015 What are you reading?

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blueemerald
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Post by blueemerald » Sat May 9th, 2015, 8:10 pm

"Somewhere in France: A Novel of the Great War" by Jennifer Robson. WWI and romance. (The 2 seem oxymoronic but also perfectly paired.) I like finding another HF book which highlights the various roles to which women (especially the aristocratic) volunteered and assumed in WWI. This book features the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and ambulance driving on the Western Front.

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Susan
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Post by Susan » Sat May 9th, 2015, 11:44 pm

[quote=""blueemerald""]"Somewhere in France: A Novel of the Great War" by Jennifer Robson. WWI and romance. (The 2 seem oxymoronic but also perfectly paired.) I like finding another HF book which highlights the various roles to which women (especially the aristocratic) volunteered and assumed in WWI. This book features the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and ambulance driving on the Western Front.[/quote]

You piqued my interest and I just got the Kindle version. I've been writing monthly WWI articles about royals and nobles for the royalty website I help administer, so I've been learning more about the history of WWI.
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MLE (Emily Cotton)
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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

Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Sun May 10th, 2015, 1:44 pm

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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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 » Sun May 10th, 2015, 2:01 pm

I've just started The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman.
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 Misfit » Sun May 10th, 2015, 3:11 pm

A Diamond in the Rough by Andrea Pickens. Regency era romance with a golf twist.
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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 » Tue May 12th, 2015, 11:41 am

At last (been on my TBR for ages) I'm reading Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth.

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Post by fljustice » Tue May 12th, 2015, 7:42 pm

Finished The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows (co-authored The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society) and thoroughly enjoyed it. Reading Otherwise Fables by Oscar Mandel which I think I'm going to bag in favor of some New Zealand fables. Commuting book is Life After Life by Jill McCorkle which I picked up free/cheap by mistake thinking it was the book of the same title by Kate Atkinson. :o It's okay, so far, but was looking forward to the other one.
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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 » Wed May 13th, 2015, 11:11 am

[quote=""LadyB""]At last (been on my TBR for ages) I'm reading Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth.[/quote]

I've been curious about this book, and her other book The Wild Girl, so I'm interested to see what you think. :)
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross

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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 » Wed May 13th, 2015, 11:29 am

[quote=""Madeleine""]I've been curious about this book, and her other book The Wild Girl, so I'm interested to see what you think. :) [/quote]

Oh it's so good. I'm about a quarter way through and I'm loving it. It's beautiful, and rather dark as well but that's to be expected.

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MLE (Emily Cotton)
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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

Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Wed May 13th, 2015, 4:12 pm

I was in the mood for a light read, so I got Susanna Kearsley's Firebird.

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