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Post by wendallpauls » Sun September 14th, 2008, 1:24 am

I suppose I manage to keep up onwho has what book out and when, as I wasn't even aware a new book was due out from Phillipa Gregory until I saw it amongst the stack of new books at 'work. My boss, though, took first dibs, as I guess its the boss' perogative to do so.

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Post by Divia » Sun September 14th, 2008, 3:43 am

Will you be reading it?

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
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Post by SonjaMarie » Tue September 16th, 2008, 2:53 am

Philippa Gregory's 'Queen' rules with intrigue
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Post by diamondlil » Tue September 16th, 2008, 12:18 pm

I read that article today and I was like ...um...not sure I want to read it! Hopefully it is not as over the top as that article makes it out to be!
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Post by amyb » Tue September 16th, 2008, 4:56 pm

I was at Borders when they opened this morning (how sad is that?!) and I picked this up. I'm only on page 11 or so, but I am already diggin' it! Can't wait til work is over and I can go home, ignore everyone and read my heart out!

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Post by princess garnet » Tue September 16th, 2008, 6:07 pm

Here's an interview with Philippa courtesy of Borders Presents:
http://www.bordersmedia.com/shows/borde ... 080918_TRW
Enjoy!
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Post by nona » Wed September 17th, 2008, 3:51 pm

I have a B&N giftcard and I think I might use it to get this one, it sounds really good and I enjoy her books.

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Post by boswellbaxter » Mon September 22nd, 2008, 1:55 pm

Alianore from blogdom was kind enough to send me this link to a digested read of Gregory's latest. (May contain spoilers of a fashion.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/19/fiction
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Post by cookie » Mon September 22nd, 2008, 2:03 pm

Very good ! :p
My advice, read that and stay away from the boring "real" TOQ.

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Post by EC2 » Mon September 22nd, 2008, 2:36 pm

[quote=""boswellbaxter""]Alianore from blogdom was kind enough to send me this link to a digested read of Gregory's latest. (May contain spoilers of a fashion.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/19/fiction[/quote]

Good fun - thanks!
This probably isn't one for my TBR at the moment. It's garnering some fairly underwhelming reviews from Amazon UK thus far.
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