Secrets of the Tudor Court: The Pleasure Palace by Kate Emerson.
I'm about 50 pages into it and pleasantly surprised so far.
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March 2009 - What are you reading?
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
[quote=""nona""]I keep picking that one up Misfit but I always put it back due to all the books on Tudor courts and all the seducing/intrigue.[/quote]
I know what you mean and I'm as Tudor'ed out as the next, let alone some mediocre writing I've come across lately - which is why I'm quite surprised. Its even first person POV which I'm not fond of and still I'm enjoying it. I'm sure I'll be finished by Sunday at the latest so I'll check back in with a review then.
I know what you mean and I'm as Tudor'ed out as the next, let alone some mediocre writing I've come across lately - which is why I'm quite surprised. Its even first person POV which I'm not fond of and still I'm enjoying it. I'm sure I'll be finished by Sunday at the latest so I'll check back in with a review then.
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
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I'm just about to start The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
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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
Reading persuasive and explanatory essays written by my students instead of the current book I am reading, Mary Called Magdalene by Margaret George.
~Susan~
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Have just started "The Street Philosopher", by Matthew Plampin. It looks promising- it's a novel about the Crimean War from the POV of a journalist sent out to cover it. ("Street Philosopher" was a nineteenth century term for a society writer/gossip columnist.) The Crimean War was possibly the first conflict to be the subject of media coverage. (I should probably say, the first on which media coverage had an influence)
There's an interview here with the author:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/intervi ... ew-plampin
There's an interview here with the author:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/intervi ... ew-plampin
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Just finished a YA historical, Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson, about the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. There were a few words that jumped out at me as modern lingo (e.g., did people really say 'huzzah' back then?), but it didn't bother me too much. Once the epidemic starts, the story becomes quite riveting. Now I'm reading another by her -- Chains, about a slave girl in NY who hopes to free herself from her current situation by spying for the Patriots in 1776. This one was a National Book Award Finalist.
[quote=""Ludmilla""]Just finished a YA historical, Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson, about the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. There were a few words that jumped out at me as modern lingo (e.g., did people really say 'huzzah' back then?), but it didn't bother me too much. Once the epidemic starts, the story becomes quite riveting. Now I'm reading another by her -- Chains, about a slave girl in NY who hopes to free herself from her current situation by spying for the Patriots in 1776. This one was a National Book Award Finalist.[/quote]
According to the OED, "huzzah" was used as a sailor's cheer in the 17th and 18th century, as well as by the British infantry.
According to the OED, "huzzah" was used as a sailor's cheer in the 17th and 18th century, as well as by the British infantry.