[quote=""Misfit""]I loved the prose/writing style a great deal.[/quote]
I do too!!! That is a lot of what reminds me of Jane Eyre; her style makes me think of Charlotte Bronte had she written in the 1980s.
I am really, really liking this book.....
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I did a really rather foolish thing this week and paid the absolutely stupid 2nd-hand price for Riley's Marigold Chain which I haven't read since it was first published.
When I do stupid things like that they usually get re-issued at a sensible price so you can but hope.
However, it will make a very light read for me when I am Dunnett'd.
When I do stupid things like that they usually get re-issued at a sensible price so you can but hope.
However, it will make a very light read for me when I am Dunnett'd.
Currently reading - Emergence of a Nation State by Alan Smith
[quote=""SGM""]I did a really rather foolish thing this week and paid the absolutely stupid 2nd-hand price for Riley's Marigold Chain which I haven't read since it was first published.
When I do stupid things like that they usually get re-issued at a sensible price so you can but hope.
However, it will make a very light read for me when I am Dunnett'd.[/quote]
Yes, but then we'll all benefit it they get republished. It's a public service you've done
If it isn't too much trouble and you have a jacket description could you bang it out for me? Book without descriptions at Goodreads drive me nuts, so when I can I like to add them.
When I do stupid things like that they usually get re-issued at a sensible price so you can but hope.
However, it will make a very light read for me when I am Dunnett'd.[/quote]
Yes, but then we'll all benefit it they get republished. It's a public service you've done
If it isn't too much trouble and you have a jacket description could you bang it out for me? Book without descriptions at Goodreads drive me nuts, so when I can I like to add them.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
"SHE WAS THE MOST AMAZING PRIZE.....
Rather than pass another night in her dissolute brother's household, Chloe Ashton accepted the stranger who had won her at cards. But marriage to the charming Alex Deveril had more than its share of problems. Caught up in a dangerous political intrigue, still suffering from rejected love, Alex had little time to spare his unknown bridge.
But Chloe was no demure miss to sit meekly at home over her embroidery. Stung by her husband's indifference, she determined to make her own fortune -- and regain her lost independence. All in all, it was anything but a marriage of convenience.
THE MARIGOLD CHAIN
a richly unforgettable saga of intrigue, treachery and love."
I actually rather like the cover. My public spirit is tempered by my own desire to have the final instalment published.
I have some Jane Lane's somewhere that have no descriptions or covers in Goodreads, I will let you have them too (after I have finished Checkmate).
Currently reading - Emergence of a Nation State by Alan Smith
Thanks for that.
PS, it's fairly easy to apply for and obtain librarian status at Goodreads. I think the only real requirement is a certain # of books on your shelf. I like it as I can easily add a cover and jacket blurb without pestering someone else. There's also a librarians group where you can ask them to fix a book for you.
PS, it's fairly easy to apply for and obtain librarian status at Goodreads. I think the only real requirement is a certain # of books on your shelf. I like it as I can easily add a cover and jacket blurb without pestering someone else. There's also a librarians group where you can ask them to fix a book for you.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
[quote=""Michy""]Hmmmm "Chloe" strikes me as a highly unlikely name for a 17th century English miss. Sounds pretty 21st century American. [/quote]
Current popularity notwithstanding the name apparently, comes from Greek and as an English name, Chloe has been in use since the Protestant Reformation (from where it doubtless got to the US). It fits in pretty nicely with the story in which there is also a French element.
Current popularity notwithstanding the name apparently, comes from Greek and as an English name, Chloe has been in use since the Protestant Reformation (from where it doubtless got to the US). It fits in pretty nicely with the story in which there is also a French element.
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Chloe is my daughter's name. Unfortunately I called her that just before it had a big revival in the UK in the late 1990s and then every man and his dog seemed to be called it!! However, I do still think it's a pretty name. It means 'little shoot' in Greek (as SGM points out its origin) - I remember going to Greece on holiday when she was a little girl and a waiter pointed this fact out to her. She's always remembered it.
To me it sounds quite French!
To me it sounds quite French!
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Chloe is a name from Greek mythology (it is attached to Demeter, Goddess of the Earth, Agriculture, Harvest, and Forests), and would have been familiar to all those English aristocrats trained in the classics at school. It was also used in a romantic ancient Greek narrative called Daphnis and Chloe
Funnily enough given its pagan origins, it apparently became a popular Puritan name in the 17th century.
Funnily enough given its pagan origins, it apparently became a popular Puritan name in the 17th century.
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