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Mello
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Hi from a new member....

Post by Mello » Mon February 16th, 2009, 11:22 am

Hello to everyone in this very interesting HF community! It has taken me some time to finally delurk and come on board - I really just love to read and learn so making the step to interact is a little bit foreign!

So, to my reading habits.....I started at 13 or 14 reading Jean Plaidy and Juliette Benzoni and then began a love of all things royal, English and French. Recently in a fit of nostalgia, I tracked down and bought some of their old books just for comfort's sake. I don't know when I will re-read them though - therein lies my problem - I am not a fast reader and my TBR pile grows faster than I can read. I realised though after reading through the posts on here that a lot of my books on said pile are favourites here - Dorothy Dunnett and Sharon Penman's to name a couple. But I have found even more authors that I am itching to read. Trouble lies ahead!

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Madeleine
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Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
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Post by Madeleine » Mon February 16th, 2009, 11:43 am

Hi Mello and welcome to the board - don't worry about growing tbr piles, I think quite a few of us (self included) have this problem! There could be worse things to worry about!

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Post by donroc » Mon February 16th, 2009, 11:53 am

Welcome and enjoy. We all have TBR stacks and lists.
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Bodo the Apostate, a novel set during the reign of Louis the Pious and end of the Carolingian Empire.

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Post by Leyland » Mon February 16th, 2009, 12:14 pm

Welcome to the HFO interaction and am looking forward to your thoughts and ideas, Mello. And yes, out of control TBR is common for us. I think I have somewhere between 250 and 275 TBR's on shelves and scattered around set on tables and in cupboards. I haven't added many to the maelstrom lately, but when the economy and my wages pick back up ...
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Mon February 16th, 2009, 12:41 pm

Welcome to the board. I can certainly identify with your predicament. I'm not the fastest reader (well depending on the sort of book) and I don't have so much leisure time available for it. My TBR is fast growing out of all proportion to my ability to get through but I can't kick the habit!

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Post by Misfit » Mon February 16th, 2009, 1:12 pm

Hi and welcome aboard. Join the pack with the ever growing TBR piles and lists. You are not alone.....

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Post by EC2 » Mon February 16th, 2009, 1:21 pm

Welcome to the forum. I try to keep a lot of my TBR in my head, but it doesn't quite work for some reason..... :)
I'm just reading Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman at the moment. She has a lovely interractive blog over at her website these days too!
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard n’I chasront

'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'

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Post by boswellbaxter » Mon February 16th, 2009, 3:21 pm

Welcome, Mello! Glad to have you here.
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Post by diamondlil » Mon February 16th, 2009, 7:51 pm

Welcome Mello! I look forward to seeing you around the boards!

Nice to see another Melburnian on the boards too!
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Post by Carla » Mon February 16th, 2009, 9:05 pm

Hello and welcome!
PATHS OF EXILE - love, war, honour and betrayal in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria
Editor's Choice, Historical Novels Review, August 2009
Now available as e-book on Amazon Kindleand in Kindle, Epub (Nook, Sony Reader), Palm and other formats on Smashwords
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