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What are you reading in February?
- 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 in February?
What is everybody else reading? Something fun, I hope.
My reading is pretty heavy sledding at the moment. I'm reading up for a trip to Spain next month to do some on-the-ground research.
1. Empire of the Cities: Charles V, the Comunero Revolt, and the Transformation of the Spanish System.
2. The Great Revolt in Castile: a study of the Comunero Movement of 1520-1521.
3.A reread: Juana the Mad: Sovereignty and Dynasty in Early Modern Europe.
#2 is pissing me off. It's about a century old, and the author is on the wrong side.
Working on a novel (in English, there are plenty in Spanish) on 'the Lioness of Castile'. And trying to get through a truly awful 1951 film on the same lady, in very rapid Castilian Spanish, La Leona de Castilla.
My reading is pretty heavy sledding at the moment. I'm reading up for a trip to Spain next month to do some on-the-ground research.
1. Empire of the Cities: Charles V, the Comunero Revolt, and the Transformation of the Spanish System.
2. The Great Revolt in Castile: a study of the Comunero Movement of 1520-1521.
3.A reread: Juana the Mad: Sovereignty and Dynasty in Early Modern Europe.
#2 is pissing me off. It's about a century old, and the author is on the wrong side.
Working on a novel (in English, there are plenty in Spanish) on 'the Lioness of Castile'. And trying to get through a truly awful 1951 film on the same lady, in very rapid Castilian Spanish, La Leona de Castilla.
- princess garnet
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1797
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Maryland
Re: What are you reading in February?
Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufman (NF)
Profiles several men and women of African heritage who lived in Tudor England--really interesting!
Profiles several men and women of African heritage who lived in Tudor England--really interesting!
- 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 in February?
Blood Sisters by Jane Corry
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
Re: What are you reading in February?
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
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~Unofficial Royalty~
Royal news updated daily, information and discussion about royalty past and present
http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/
- 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
Re: What are you reading in February?
I read that! Her best so far, IMHO.
- 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 in February?
"Nightblind" by Ragnar Jonasson, Icelandic Noir.
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 in February?
Oh, I'd love to read your novel when it's out, as Spanish history is one of my interests. Do you have an expected publication date?MLE (Emily Cotton) wrote:What is everybody else reading? Something fun, I hope.
My reading is pretty heavy sledding at the moment. I'm reading up for a trip to Spain next month to do some on-the-ground research.
1. Empire of the Cities: Charles V, the Comunero Revolt, and the Transformation of the Spanish System.
2. The Great Revolt in Castile: a study of the Comunero Movement of 1520-1521.
3.A reread: Juana the Mad: Sovereignty and Dynasty in Early Modern Europe.
#2 is pissing me off. It's about a century old, and the author is on the wrong side.
Working on a novel (in English, there are plenty in Spanish) on 'the Lioness of Castile'. And trying to get through a truly awful 1951 film on the same lady, in very rapid Castilian Spanish, La Leona de Castilla.
- 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
Re: What are you reading in February?
It usually takes me about a year to write/polish a book. And then, as I'm indie, I monkey with it as the reader comments come in.red805 wrote: Oh, I'd love to read your novel when it's out, as Spanish history is one of my interests. Do you have an expected publication date?
Which is why I'm always reluctant to market--I might decide to change it again! But if you love Spain, you can try the first in this series (the one I'm currently researching is #4). It just got the IndieBrag award (a hard award to get-- 5 reader-judges have to choose it, and all must give a thumbs-up, which took 7 months from the release date of July last year. They can put in comments if they want. One said: "Most original book I have read in years! Thank you for a great read." Wish I could use that quote, but alas! the Indiebrag judges are anonymous, and part of the system is that they remain so.
Barbarossa's Barb: Heirs of Andalusia. https://www.amazon.com/Barbarossas-Barb ... 0748TQ861/
I play a bit of a joke on the unsuspecting reader in the first chapter. Some get it right off. Some don't realize until...
Well, why spoil a good laugh.
- 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 in February?
Just started The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory.
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}
- 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 in February?
just started "The Body in the Ice" by A J Mackenzie, the second in the Romney Marsh historical crime series, and I'm also now reading "A Death in the Dales" by Julia Chapman.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross