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What Are You Reading? Jan. 2023

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princess garnet
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Re: What Are You Reading? Jan. 2023

Post by princess garnet » Tue January 31st, 2023, 12:43 am

Finished: Tudor Roses: From Margaret Beaufort to Elizabeth I by Amy Licence (NF)

Next up: Queens in the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir (NF)
New and #3 in her "England's Medieval Queens" series. It was released here in the US last month.

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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? Jan. 2023

Post by Vanessa » Wed February 1st, 2023, 1:51 pm

Madeleine wrote:
Sat January 28th, 2023, 12:21 pm
Is that the one where the bookshop is on a boat? I read that a few years ago.
Yes, it is. I’m enjoying although I’m finding the translation clunky at times.

I’m now reading via Pigeonhole Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, the story of the friendship between an octopus and a night cleaner working at an aquarium. This particular octopus is very articulate when he’s thinking to himself, he’s quite clever and he’s called Marcellus. :D
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
Location: Essex/London

Re: What Are You Reading? Jan. 2023

Post by Madeleine » Wed February 1st, 2023, 5:21 pm

Yes I found it a bit clunky too, and a bit "twee".

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