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Ash
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Post by Ash » Tue December 30th, 2008, 3:35 am

Sadly, the Borders near the University is being closed. Happily, everything is on sale. So I picked up Coleen McCulloughs new book The First Man in Rome, which is perfect because my book group is reading it in a few months. Also picked up some Ruth Rendell (not HF), and Thames by Peter Ackroyd.

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nona
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Post by nona » Tue December 30th, 2008, 3:39 am

[quote=""Amanda""]Daughter of Lir by Diana Norman[/quote]

I just bought Daughter of Lir a few weeks ago, isn't that Judith Tarr?

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Post by Ariadne » Tue December 30th, 2008, 3:52 am

[quote=""nona""]I just bought Daughter of Lir a few weeks ago, isn't that Judith Tarr?[/quote]

Huh, this is the first time I realized that Norman and Tarr wrote books with the same title (despite my owning copies of both). They're completely different books.

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nona
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Post by nona » Tue December 30th, 2008, 4:10 am

ahh, thats explains it. whats Norman's about?

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Amanda
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Post by Amanda » Tue December 30th, 2008, 4:45 am

[quote=""nona""]ahh, thats explains it. whats Norman's about?[/quote]

Medieval Ireland.

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Post by diamondlil » Tue December 30th, 2008, 9:57 am

I went to the library tonight and picked up:

Night Train to Memphis by Elizabeth Peters
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
The Fool's Gold by Nicole Galland
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden
Life as we Knew it by Susan Pfeffer
Lord of the Silent by Elizabeth Peters

Already there is another book there waiting for me!
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Madeleine
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Post by Madeleine » Tue December 30th, 2008, 2:17 pm

Received my Twilight trilogy today, off to hit bookshop sales soon.

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Vanessa
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Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
Preferred HF: Any
Location: North Yorkshire, UK

Post by Vanessa » Tue December 30th, 2008, 7:19 pm

I bought 3 for 2 in Borders today:

The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse
The Other Side of the Stars by Clemency Burton Hill
The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin
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

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Post by Madeleine » Tue December 30th, 2008, 7:45 pm

No luck in the booksales (disappointing) but there's a new cut-price bookshop opened up in my local mall and I bought a couple of Bernard Knight's Crowner John novels:

The Elixir of Death
The Noble Outlaw

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Post by annis » Tue December 30th, 2008, 8:14 pm

Despite the fact that there is a certain amount of repetition in the Crowner John novels, it has a rather comforting familiarity. You feel as if you know the characters and all their quirks. The stories are always interesting and the times and customs well portrayed.

From an online auction site I've just picked up copies of Martha Rofheart's "Cry God for Harry", about Henry V ( "once more unto the breach, dear friends---") and "The Alexandrian", her novel about Cleopatra, which is supposed to be one of the best historical novels on the subject. Given recent discussions about Cleopatra, I'm looking forward to that one.
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