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What are you reading July 2018?
What are you reading July 2018?
Hello everyone, still not reading much HF so haven't been around. I am reading The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox. Not feeling the love I'm seeing in the other reviews. First person present tense never helps my reading experience.
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
- 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
Re: What are you reading July 2018?
I normally loathe first person present. I liked it in the Hunger Games, don't know why that one worked, but if I pick up a book and it startes, "I am going down the street towards..." I hit the delete button.Misfit wrote:Hello everyone, still not reading much HF so haven't been around. I am reading The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox. Not feeling the love I'm seeing in the other reviews. First person present tense never helps my reading experience.
I'm reading John Adams, by David McCulloch. He is, as always, unbearably detailed, but since we are trying to get our house rebuilt before the insurance company's extra living expense runs out, I can't afford to get wrapped up in anything interesting.
- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5860
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
Re: What are you reading July 2018?
"A Suitable Vengeance" by Elizabeth George (Inspector Lynley mystery) and "Force of Nature" by Jane Harper (missing person mystery set in Australia).
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Re: What are you reading July 2018?
Descension by Shani Struthers, the fifth book in the Psychic Surveys series, and The French Girl by Lexie Elliott (Pigeonhole app), a contemporary psychological thriller.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
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
- princess garnet
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1797
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Maryland
Re: What are you reading July 2018?
The Queen of Sorrow by Sarah Beth Durst
#3 and final novel in the "Queens of Renthia" trilogy
#3 and final novel in the "Queens of Renthia" trilogy
- 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
Re: What are you reading July 2018?
Just started Succession by Livi Michael.
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}
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Re: What are you reading July 2018?
I’ve just started The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman, set in the 1920s on an island with a light house.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
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
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Re: What are you reading July 2018?
I’m now reading Monsoon Summer by Julia Gregson, set in Kerala just after WWII, and also Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager (via the Pigeonhole app), a contemporary psychological thriller.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
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
- Margaret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2440
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: I can't answer this in 100 characters. Sorry.
- Favourite HF book: Checkmate, the final novel in the Lymond series
- Preferred HF: Literary novels. Late medieval and Renaissance.
- Location: Catskill, New York, USA
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Re: What are you reading July 2018?
I've been on a binge (at last), and my favorite novel of the batch is Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce, about a typist for an advice columnist during the London Blitz. Loved it! My review goes up tomorrow morning (US time), Tuesday, July 9.
Browse over 5000 historical novel listings (probably well over 5000 by now, but I haven't re-counted lately) and over 700 reviews at www.HistoricalNovels.info
- princess garnet
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1797
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Maryland
Re: What are you reading July 2018?
War Storm by Victoria Aveyard (YA)
#4 and final novel of "Red Queen" quartet
#4 and final novel of "Red Queen" quartet