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What have you read in 2009? Post your list here and update it as you go along! (One thread per member, please.)
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Post by Misfit » Mon March 2nd, 2009, 12:05 am

[quote=""Telynor""]I think just about anything would be better than that one; I found it to be a terrible disappointment.[/quote]

Well let's hope Figures in Silk isn't on your list, this one's shaping up to be just as bad. I'm going to post a few excerpts over at the R3 group at Goodreads if you're interested.

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Post by Kasthu » Mon March 2nd, 2009, 8:31 pm

[quote=""Misfit""]Well let's hope Figures in Silk isn't on your list, this one's shaping up to be just as bad. I'm going to post a few excerpts over at the R3 group at Goodreads if you're interested.[/quote]

I just finished Figures in Silk and thought it sadly lacking. I was intrigued by the setting but I was bored the while time I read.

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Post by boswellbaxter » Mon March 30th, 2009, 5:13 pm

For March, all for review for the Historical Novels Review:

Drood by Dan Simmons
The Centurion's Wife by Davis Bunn and Janette Oke
Patrick Bronte: Father of Genius by Dudley Green

I'm still reading Margaret George's Cleopatra, and no hope of finishing that one by the end of March! I'm counting on a long plane trip in April to get some extra reading in.
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Post by boswellbaxter » Wed April 29th, 2009, 11:07 pm

Memorial to the Duchess by Jocelyn Kettle (Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk)
The King's Confidante by Jean Plaidy (about Thomas More and his daughter Meg)
The Rose in Spring by Eleanor Fairburn (about Cecily, Duchess of York)
House of Treason by Robert Hutchison (NF about the Howard Dukes of Norfolk)

It's a short list, but it's been a productive writing month!
Susan Higginbotham
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Post by boswellbaxter » Sun May 31st, 2009, 11:25 pm

Can't say much for the quantity this month, but the quality was excellent:

Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon (review here at HFO)
Emily's Ghost by Denise Giardina (read for review for Historical Novel Society).

I'm still working on Jessie Childs' biography of Henry Howard. It's fascinating, but I haven't had much of a chance to read lately.
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Post by boswellbaxter » Tue June 30th, 2009, 1:07 pm

Finally finished Henry Howard: Henry VIII's Last Victim by Jessie Childs. A very interesting biography of a man I knew almost nothing about.

Read Daughters of the Doge by Edward Charles and Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold for the Historical Novels Review.

Started Jean Plaidy's The Italian Woman (Catherine de Medici). I ordinarily enjoy Plaidy, but I got fed up with the Evil Catherine when she started menacing her own children and decided it was time to bail.
Susan Higginbotham
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Post by boswellbaxter » Thu July 30th, 2009, 4:48 am

This was a pretty good reading month, in all senses of the word!

Read:

The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte by Syrie James
The French Mistress by Susan Holloway Scott
The Kingmaker's Sisters by David Baldwin (NF)
Catherine de Medici by Leonie Friedie (well, most of it) (NF)
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen by Leandra de Lisle (NF)

Tried to read Kelly Hart's The Mistresses of Henry VIII, but Hart's determination to make a mistress out of every female who crossed Henry's path got a little wearing, as did some of her weird errors (such as giving an earldom to the William, Lord Hastings executed by Richard III). I also found her insistence that the courtiers of Henry VIII "rarely washed" to be rather odd.
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Post by boswellbaxter » Tue September 1st, 2009, 1:06 am

The Queen's Mistake by Diane Haeger (review copy). I enjoyed this one!

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory (DNF, but did a lot of peeking at the latter part of the book).

Working on A Great and Terrible King (NF about Edward I) by Marc Morris and a ton of review books.
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Post by boswellbaxter » Wed September 30th, 2009, 5:10 pm

Mostly review books:

The Blue Enchantress by M. L. Tyndall
Deliah by India Edghill
Jarrettsville by Cornelia Nixon (Divia, you might like this one)
Montana Rose by [font=&quot]Mary Connealy
My Vicksburg by [/font] [font=&quot]Ann Rinaldi
True Confections by Katharine Weber
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James

Started Michele's latest!
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Post by Telynor » Thu October 1st, 2009, 2:58 pm

[quote=""boswellbaxter""]

Working on A Great and Terrible King (NF about Edward I) by Marc Morris and a ton of review books.[/quote]

How did this one turn out? I have Prestwich's biography of Edward I, and wonder if AGTK is just a retread, or does it have new information and ideas?

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