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Kasthu
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Post by Kasthu » Mon May 11th, 2009, 9:04 pm

More books mysteriously dropped into my shopping cart on Amazon:

The Falcons of Montabard and
The Winter Mantle


Both by EC.

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Post by Vanessa » Mon May 11th, 2009, 9:09 pm

Strange, that! :D I have the same problem myself sometimes. LOL.
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Post by annis » Mon May 11th, 2009, 9:24 pm

Posted by Vanessa
Currently reading: Ferney by James Long
I remember this book- it's quite creepily compelling!
I really enjoyed James Long's novel "Silence and Shadows" another story with echoes of reincarnation, though not to the extent of "Ferney"

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Post by Vanessa » Mon May 11th, 2009, 10:03 pm

Yes, it is compelling, Annis - I'm very much enjoying it. I shall look out for Silence and Shadows - thanks!
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Post by Misfit » Mon May 11th, 2009, 11:30 pm

[quote=""Kasthu""]More books mysteriously dropped into my shopping cart on Amazon:

The Falcons of Montabard and
The Winter Mantle


Both by EC.[/quote]

Amazing how that happens. Honestly you've shown a lot of restraint - after my first EC I went on quite a buying spree.
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Post by cw gortner » Mon May 11th, 2009, 11:41 pm

[quote=""Nefret""]Bought The Quality of Mercy by Faye Kellerman this morning. Could not find The Last Queen. :o [/quote]

Where are you located, Nefer? It should be readily available at most stores right now, as it's in paperback.

Being on tour, one of the things I like to do to thank the stores that host me is to buy a book, so the pile has grown a bit: besides Magnifico, I bought the new Sourcebooks edition of Daphne Du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel (which wierdly has no copyright page with pub history) and a new copy of Dumas's Count of Monte Cristo.
THE QUEEN'S VOW available on June 12, 2012!
THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN


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Post by Kasthu » Tue May 12th, 2009, 12:22 am

[quote=""Misfit""]Amazing how that happens. Honestly you've shown a lot of restraint - after my first EC I went on quite a buying spree.[/quote]

LOL. Actually, I'm trying to pace myself and not read all her books too quickly. I'm trying to savor them as much as possible. Difficult, though.

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Post by emr » Thu May 14th, 2009, 10:14 am

With boswellbaxter's recommendation of Rebecca Gable fresh in mind I found out at the hipermarket that there are three of her novels translated into Spanish. I hate translations but I'm not that good with German so I came back home with her Der König der purpurnen Stadt (The King of the Crimson City) (750 pages? :D ) and a couple of Arturo Perez-Reverter's.
You guys are a bad influence for my endless TBR pile ;)

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Post by Madeleine » Thu May 14th, 2009, 10:52 am

Yes I have that problem of books jumping into my shopping basket too, it happens all the time!

I've just ordered from Amazon marketplace "The Perfect Sinner" by Will Davenport, who is a pen-name of the above-mentioned James Long. Think I'll have to investigate "silence and Shadows" too!

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Post by Leo62 » Thu May 14th, 2009, 11:26 am

[quote=""Kasthu""]More books mysteriously dropped into my shopping cart on Amazon:

The Falcons of Montabard and
The Winter Mantle


Both by EC.[/quote]

You won't be sorry - they're both goodies. But make sure you read them in the right order! :D

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