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It's May, what are you reading?
It's May, what are you reading?
A Woman of Chicago by Kit Prate.
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
- Alisha Marie Klapheke
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- Posts: 376
- Joined: November 2010
- Location: Franklin, TN
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- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3566
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
- princess garnet
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1797
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Maryland
A Study in Silks by Emma Jane Holloway (Baskerville Affair #1)
Evelina Cooper, Sherlock Holmes's niece, is the lead in this trilogy set in alternate Victorian Britain.
Evelina Cooper, Sherlock Holmes's niece, is the lead in this trilogy set in alternate Victorian Britain.
I Am Livia by Phyllis T. Smith, going from dystopian Chicago to the Roman empire
~Susan~
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http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/
Bailed on an older gothic that wasn't interesting me. Starting White Rani by Caroline Gray. Not sure of the year yet (I think before WWI), Malaysia.
OMG. I just looked up the author's profile on Goodreads. Caroline Gray is another pseudonym for the somewhat notorious (to us) Alan Savage.
OMG. I just looked up the author's profile on Goodreads. Caroline Gray is another pseudonym for the somewhat notorious (to us) Alan Savage.
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
- DianeL
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- Joined: May 2011
- Location: Midatlantic east coast, United States
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I picked up "The Witching Hour", Anne Rice's first novel in the Mayfair Witches series, after winding up "Lord of Sunset" recently. I'm actually a bit blown away at how GOOD a writer Rice really can (could once?) be - it's been such a long time, and I have to admit she'd sort of slipped into a caricature in my mind for years now. It's a LOT of book - nearly 800 pages - but I'm sort of looking forward to taking it languidly, getting back into the story again.
I can recall being incredibly frustrated by this series - it was, as many of her works tended to be, very hit-and-miss - one novel feeling like nothing but a placeholder until she could get back to quality again. I used to feel like that with her a lot. So it's a real pleasure to find that I'm enjoying this "rerun" as much as I am so far.
I can recall being incredibly frustrated by this series - it was, as many of her works tended to be, very hit-and-miss - one novel feeling like nothing but a placeholder until she could get back to quality again. I used to feel like that with her a lot. So it's a real pleasure to find that I'm enjoying this "rerun" as much as I am so far.
"To be the queen, she agreed to be the widow!"
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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
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I'm a Twit: @DianeLMajor
- Nefret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2994
- Joined: February 2009
- Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
- Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
- Location: Temple of Isis
Just wait until you get to the Taltos storyline. Those books are weird, but in a good way.
Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}