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What have you read in 2010? Post your list here and update it as you go along! (One thread per member, please.)
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Post by SonjaMarie » Tue December 7th, 2010, 2:58 am

[quote=""boswellbaxter""]I started Christie Dickason's The King's Daughter but got fed up. I can put up with almost anything in a heroine except for whining, and lord, does this heroine whine! In fact, everyone in the novel whines. Time to bail.[/quote]

Ok, removing that my BF queue, don't want to waste order on a whiny book! Thanks Susan!

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Post by boswellbaxter » Tue December 7th, 2010, 3:30 am

[quote=""SonjaMarie""]Ok, removing that my BF queue, don't want to waste order on a whiny book! Thanks Susan!

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Post by boswellbaxter » Tue December 14th, 2010, 4:00 am

Finished Hilda Lewis's Bloody Mary today, the third novel in her trilogy. Like the second novel (I haven't read the first), an impressive first-person telling that delves into the psychological aspects of Mary's story.
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Post by boswellbaxter » Mon December 27th, 2010, 2:10 am

I've been doing some readin' this month! Finished Stacey Schiff's Cleopatra (NF), Harriet Reisen's Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (NF), and Jane Odiwe's Lydia Bennet's Story.
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Post by Telynor » Mon December 27th, 2010, 7:05 pm

[quote=""boswellbaxter""]I've been doing some readin' this month! Finished Stacey Schiff's Cleopatra (NF), Harriet Reisen's Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (NF), and Jane Odiwe's Lydia Bennet's Story.[/quote]

I loved reading Lydia Bennet's Story -- that wasn't nearly so silly as a lot of would be Austen sequels, and it didn't take it self too seriously.

How was the Schiff book on Cleopatra?

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Post by boswellbaxter » Mon December 27th, 2010, 7:14 pm

[quote=""Telynor""]I loved reading Lydia Bennet's Story -- that wasn't nearly so silly as a lot of would be Austen sequels, and it didn't take it self too seriously.

How was the Schiff book on Cleopatra?[/quote]


I enjoyed it, although I'm not at all familiar with this period so I can't vouch for the quality of its research. It's very well written.
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