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What Are You Reading January 2020?

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princess garnet
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What Are You Reading January 2020?

Post by princess garnet » Fri January 3rd, 2020, 8:03 pm

Happy New Year! New monthly thread for the year
Varina by Charles Frazier
Novel about Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

gallowglass1580
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Currently reading: The Scarlet Lion
Interest in HF: Irish History.
Irish and European historical fiction set between 1500 and 1750
Favourite HF book: Shogun
Preferred HF: Irish history and also English Tudor history
Location: Galway; Ireland

Re: What Are You Reading January 2020?

Post by gallowglass1580 » Sat January 4th, 2020, 4:06 pm

The Wild Irish by Robin Maxwell

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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

Re: What Are You Reading January 2020?

Post by Vanessa » Mon January 6th, 2020, 7:47 pm

Happy New Year! 🥳

I’m reading Hitler’s Secret by Rory Clements, a spy thriller. I think it’s the fourth in a series but I haven’t read the others. It’s a book I’ve received to review.

I’m also reading via Pigeonhole Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau, a drama set in 1911 on Coney Island.
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
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Re: What Are You Reading January 2020?

Post by Madeleine » Thu January 9th, 2020, 9:45 am

I've just started Murder at the Fitzwilliam by Jim Eldridge, first in a series of new murder mysteries, set in Cambridge in 1894.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross

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Vanessa
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Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
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Preferred HF: Any
Location: North Yorkshire, UK

Re: What Are You Reading January 2020?

Post by Vanessa » Mon January 13th, 2020, 4:50 pm

I’ve just started When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman, a contemporary family drama.
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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Re: What Are You Reading January 2020?

Post by princess garnet » Tue January 14th, 2020, 7:27 pm

Finished: The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell
Samantha Whipple, an American grad student, is haunted by the Bronte family while studying in Oxford.

Starting: The Map of Knowledge by Violet Moller (NF)

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Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
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Re: What Are You Reading January 2020?

Post by Nefret » Fri January 24th, 2020, 1:06 am

I just started re-reading Pompeii by Robert Harris.
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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Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
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Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
Preferred HF: Any
Location: North Yorkshire, UK

Re: What Are You Reading January 2020?

Post by Vanessa » Fri January 31st, 2020, 1:06 pm

I’m reading The Willow Marsh Murder by Karen Charlton. It’s the sixth in the Detective Lavender mysteries, an enjoyable series based on a real life detective and true crime cases set in Regency England.

I’m also reading via Pigeonhole The Sisters Grimm by Menna Van Praag. I’m on the seventh stave and enjoying it. It’s quite surreal but intriguing. There’s a lot going on in it so I’m having to concentrate! It’s about four Grimm sisters (as per the title) all born to different mothers. They find each other at 8 years old, are separated at 13 and now, at nearly 18, they have to find each other once again to meet their father and prepare for battle in Everwhere, an enchanted forest. Fairyland, I guess!
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Re: What Are You Reading January 2020?

Post by princess garnet » Fri January 31st, 2020, 5:36 pm

A few titles I read lately:
In the Shadow of Vesuvius by Tasha Alexander
The latest and #14 installment of the "Lady Emily Mystery" series. I've been following this series since it started.

The Prince of Souls by Lynn Kurland
The latest and #12 in the "9 Kingdoms" series, a fantasy romance. Another series I've followed over years. The author went on break for a time after the previous novel.

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illustrations by Tasha Tudor
I read this novel as a kid. Since there's a new movie adaptation coming out this spring, I thought I'd read this again. (The 1993 movie may be the most familiar one to folks)

The Romanov Empress by C.W. Gortner
Re-read this novel in paperback.

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