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what are you reading April 2017?
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3566
- 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
what are you reading April 2017?
I'm reading the Sisters of St. Croix. WWII France.
- princess garnet
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1797
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Maryland
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
The Women of the Cousins' War by Philippa Gregory et al. (NF)
- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5860
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
Rather appropriately, I've just started "The Enchanted April" by Elizabeth von Arnim.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross
- Nefret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2994
- Joined: February 2009
- Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
- Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
- Location: Temple of Isis
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
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}
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}
- red805
- Avid Reader
- Posts: 303
- Joined: August 2008
- 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.
- Location: Southern California
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
Just started The Nest & I'm really liking it at this point.
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- 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
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
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
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
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- Avid Reader
- Posts: 286
- Joined: October 2010
- Preferred HF: Lately World Two or the time immediately before and after this period
- Location: Australia
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
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
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
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
The Tyrant by Patricia Veryan. Still stuck in Georgian England with lots of Jacobite plotting.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5860
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
SCW, I wondered what you were going to say in your confession, thought you were going to mention 50 Shades of Grey 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
- red805
- Avid Reader
- Posts: 303
- Joined: August 2008
- 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.
- Location: Southern California
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
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 cottageNefret wrote:Just started The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley.