The One by Kiera Cass (YA)
#3 in the best selling "The Selection" series
I checked out the entire series and the novellas companion book from the library.
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What Are You Reading February 2019?
- princess garnet
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1797
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Maryland
- 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 February 2019?
I'm reading Yangsze Choo's just released second novel: the Night Tiger. I loved her debut, The Ghost Bride. Chinese colonial Malaysian culture is a fun and different venue.
- 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 February 2019?
"In the woods" by Tana French, first in a crime series set in Dublin.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross
Re: What Are You Reading February 2019?
I'm reading War Nurses by Lizzie Page. It's a fictionalization of the friendship and WWI nursing efforts of historical figures Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm, known as the Madonnas of Pervyse. I don't know enough about either to have an opinion on how the author handles their characterization or creative license in storytelling, but the WWI detail is quite good. The story is written through Mairi's eyes as a green girl when she joins Dr. Munro's Flying Ambulance Corps and then joins Elsie to help run a first aid/dressing station near the trenches. I get the feeling that Elsie's own life could probably fill a couple of other books, as she was a very charismatic and unconventional figure.
- princess garnet
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1797
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Maryland
Re: What Are You Reading February 2019?
Snow day from work meant a good novel from the library to read!
Sons of Blackbird Mountain by Joanne Bischof
The story takes place on a rural Virginia farm in 1890. The sequel Daughters of Northern Shores will release next month.
Sons of Blackbird Mountain by Joanne Bischof
The story takes place on a rural Virginia farm in 1890. The sequel Daughters of Northern Shores will release next month.
- 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 February 2019?
A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett.
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}
- 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 February 2019?
I've just started the middle part of Elizabeth Chadwick's trilogy about Eleanor of Aquitaine, "The Winter Crown". Good so far.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross