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Boswellbaxter's reading
[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.
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=""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.
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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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.
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.
Susan Higginbotham
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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!
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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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.
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.
Susan Higginbotham
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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.
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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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.
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.
Susan Higginbotham
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Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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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.
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.
Susan Higginbotham
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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="]Mary Connealy
My Vicksburg by [/font] [font="]Ann Rinaldi
True Confections by Katharine Weber
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James
Started Michele's latest!
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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="]Mary Connealy
My Vicksburg by [/font] [font="]Ann Rinaldi
True Confections by Katharine Weber
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James
Started Michele's latest!
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Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/