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what are you reading April 2017?

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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.
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what are you reading April 2017?

Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Mon April 3rd, 2017, 8:37 pm

I'm reading the Sisters of St. Croix. WWII France.

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princess garnet
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Re: what are you reading April 2017?

Post by princess garnet » Mon April 3rd, 2017, 10:36 pm

The Women of the Cousins' War by Philippa Gregory et al. (NF)

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Madeleine
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Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
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Re: what are you reading April 2017?

Post by Madeleine » Wed April 5th, 2017, 8:24 am

Rather appropriately, I've just started "The Enchanted April" by Elizabeth von Arnim.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross

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Nefret
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Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
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Re: what are you reading April 2017?

Post by Nefret » Wed April 5th, 2017, 7:39 pm

Just started The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley.
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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red805
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Preferred HF: I like a series the best - more to look forward to after one book ends. Masters of Rome, The Century Trilogy, & the Outlander series are some of my favorites.
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Re: what are you reading April 2017?

Post by red805 » Fri April 7th, 2017, 1:22 am

Just started The Nest & I'm really liking it at this point.

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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.
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Re: what are you reading April 2017?

Post by Vanessa » Sat April 8th, 2017, 4:53 pm

I've just started Belgravia by Julian Fellowes.
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

SCW
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Preferred HF: Lately World Two or the time immediately before and after this period
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Re: what are you reading April 2017?

Post by SCW » Sun April 9th, 2017, 9:32 am

I have a very shameful confession to make.

You see, I have never ever read The Notebook. Nor any other books by that author.

Nor have I seen the film with Ryan Gosling (even more terrible because I've been told the film is the better version)

But,

I have just finished Letters to the Lost (WW2 Fiction) by a first time novelist- beautifully written and (like the Notebook reader/watchers) I was in tears by the end.

Not many books do that for me.

Anyway- now I am about to read The Shell Seekers

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Re: what are you reading April 2017?

Post by Misfit » Sun April 9th, 2017, 2:36 pm

The Tyrant by Patricia Veryan. Still stuck in Georgian England with lots of Jacobite plotting.
At home with a good book and the cat...
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Re: what are you reading April 2017?

Post by Madeleine » Sun April 9th, 2017, 4:30 pm

SCW, I wondered what you were going to say in your confession, thought you were going to mention 50 Shades of Grey :o Don't worry, I haven't read any Nicholas Sparks either, although I did see the film of Message in a Bottle years ago.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross

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Re: what are you reading April 2017?

Post by red805 » Sun April 9th, 2017, 6:59 pm

Nefret wrote:Just started The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley.
I just finished that. I liked it except for one frustrating turn at the end. But it did want to make me spend a weekend in a Scottish cottage :)

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