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Feb 2009 - What are you reading?
- diamondlil
- Bibliomaniac
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After a weekend of not picking up a single book to read, today I started Briar Rose by Jane Yolen. So far it is excellent.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
All things Historical Fiction - Historical Tapestry
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
- cw gortner
- Bibliophile
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Finished "Winter in Madrid" and just started Jo Graham's "Hand of Isis."
THE QUEEN'S VOW available on June 12, 2012!
THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN
www.cwgortner.com
THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN
www.cwgortner.com
[quote=""cw gortner""]Finished "Winter in Madrid" and just started Jo Graham's "Hand of Isis."[/quote]
C.W., What did you think about Winter in Madrid? I just finished Guernica, after both my daughter and son-in-law had read it. Then we bo't Winter in Madrid, but I'll be third in line to read it. But if we all like it as well as Guernica I doubt that I'll have to wait very long.
C.W., What did you think about Winter in Madrid? I just finished Guernica, after both my daughter and son-in-law had read it. Then we bo't Winter in Madrid, but I'll be third in line to read it. But if we all like it as well as Guernica I doubt that I'll have to wait very long.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. (1873) -- Louisa May Alcott
- cw gortner
- Bibliophile
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[quote=""lindymc""]C.W., What did you think about Winter in Madrid? I just finished Guernica, after both my daughter and son-in-law had read it. Then we bo't Winter in Madrid, but I'll be third in line to read it. But if we all like it as well as Guernica I doubt that I'll have to wait very long.[/quote]
Oh, I loved it! I couldn't put it down. Though I haven't read Guernica, I found this book to be truly marvelous - part war-time thriller, part love story, part meditation on the ravages of war. It reminded me so much of stories my grandmother used to tell me of surviving the Civil War; she lived and worked as a theater actress, along with her mother and sister, throughout Franco's early regime. In fact, I'm now so inspired, I want to write a novel based on her life during this time.
C.J. Sansom wrote a compelling essay about Franco that I posted on my blog here: http://historicalboys.blogspot.com/
Oh, I loved it! I couldn't put it down. Though I haven't read Guernica, I found this book to be truly marvelous - part war-time thriller, part love story, part meditation on the ravages of war. It reminded me so much of stories my grandmother used to tell me of surviving the Civil War; she lived and worked as a theater actress, along with her mother and sister, throughout Franco's early regime. In fact, I'm now so inspired, I want to write a novel based on her life during this time.
C.J. Sansom wrote a compelling essay about Franco that I posted on my blog here: http://historicalboys.blogspot.com/
THE QUEEN'S VOW available on June 12, 2012!
THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN
www.cwgortner.com
THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN
www.cwgortner.com
- diamondlil
- Bibliomaniac
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- Joined: August 2008
I am now reading Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach.
My Blog - Reading Adventures
All things Historical Fiction - Historical Tapestry
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
All things Historical Fiction - Historical Tapestry
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton