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What Are You Reading? February 2022

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princess garnet
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What Are You Reading? February 2022

Post by princess garnet » Tue February 1st, 2022, 8:41 pm

Share your reads this month!

From the library: Shadows of Swanford Abbey by Julie Klassen

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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.
Location: Southern California

Re: What Are You Reading? February 2022

Post by red805 » Wed February 2nd, 2022, 8:35 pm

OK, finally got started on Diana Gabaldon's 9th Outlander novel Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone.

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Currently reading: Crave

Re: What Are You Reading? February 2022

Post by pauline121 » Sun February 6th, 2022, 5:07 pm

Crave, Rich Dad Poor Dad, The One Thing, Punk 57, Vikings

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Madeleine
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Currently reading: "The Whitstable Pearl Mystery" by Julie Wassmer
Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
Location: Essex/London

Re: What Are You Reading? February 2022

Post by Madeleine » Wed February 9th, 2022, 9:57 am

I'm about to start "The Buried Circle" by Kate Ellis.
Currently reading "The Whitstable Pearl Mystery" by Julie Wassmer

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Re: What Are You Reading? February 2022

Post by princess garnet » Wed February 9th, 2022, 6:07 pm

From the library:
William Henry Jernagin in Washington, DC by Ida E. Jones (NF)
Biography of a forgotten civil rights pioneer

Twilight at Morrington Cross by Abigail Wilson
A young widow and a lawyer in Regency era England work together to solve a mystery.

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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? February 2022

Post by Vanessa » Wed February 9th, 2022, 7:54 pm

I’m still reading Corrag by Susan Fletcher, a story set in 1692 just after the Glencoe Massacre. It’s not easy to read but strangely compelling. Via Pigeonhole I’m reading The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley, a time travel, alternative world tale set around the Napoleonic wars. This one is definitely a little weird but I’m keen to keep on reading to try to understand it!
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? February 2022

Post by princess garnet » Tue February 15th, 2022, 6:09 pm

From the library: Antoinette's Sister by Diana Giovinazzo
New novel about Carolina, Queen of Naples and Marie-Antoinette's older sister

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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? February 2022

Post by Vanessa » Tue February 15th, 2022, 8:07 pm

I’m just about to start Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier, a love story involving pirates and smuggling, set in Cornwall during the 17thC.

Via Pigeonhole I’m reading The Silver Wolf by J C Harvey, an adventure story set during the Thirty Years War in the 17thC. I’ve read two staves and am finding it very gripping.
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? February 2022

Post by princess garnet » Sat February 26th, 2022, 9:19 pm

From the library: Jane and the Year Without a Summer by Stephanie Barron
New and #14 in the Jane Austen Mystery series! In 1816, Jane goes to a fashionable spa after enjoying success with Emma.
It's been 6 years since Jane and the Waterloo Map released so it's good to see Jane back.

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Re: What Are You Reading? February 2022

Post by Madeleine » Sun February 27th, 2022, 3:29 pm

"The Seal King Murders" by Alanna Knight. Victorian crime set on Orkney.
Currently reading "The Whitstable Pearl Mystery" by Julie Wassmer

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