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August 2010, what are you reading

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Vanessa
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Post by Vanessa » Wed August 11th, 2010, 9:32 pm

I'm about to start The Confessions of Catherine de Medici. (I've just finished the last book in the TV Book Club series which I've been following.)
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Post by Misfit » Thu August 12th, 2010, 12:58 am

Marianne by Juliette Bezoni. Napoleonic France.
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Post by Miss Moppet » Thu August 12th, 2010, 1:18 am

[quote=""Misfit""]Marianne by Juliette Bezoni. Napoleonic France.[/quote]

That's on my list to re-read too. Have you just started it?

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Post by Misfit » Thu August 12th, 2010, 1:57 am

[quote=""Miss Moppet""]That's on my list to re-read too. Have you just started it?[/quote]

Just started today, ILL courtesy of Central Washington University, Ellensburg. So far, I think I love it, and best as I can tell the library has the rest of the series. It is an ILL so I have a shorter borrow time and no renewing so it goes on top of the list.
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Post by Miss Moppet » Thu August 12th, 2010, 2:11 am

[quote=""Misfit""]Just started today, ILL courtesy of Central Washington University, Ellensburg. So far, I think I love it, and best as I can tell the library has the rest of the series. It is an ILL so I have a shorter borrow time and no renewing so it goes on top of the list.[/quote]

I've got to finish Time's Legacy for similar reasons (can't renew, someone else wants it) but if you do like it enough to order the others let me know and maybe we can buddy read the next one. As I recall the first Marianne is split into two, The Bride of Selton Hall and The Eagle and the Nightingale, is it just Selton Hall you have?

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Post by Misfit » Thu August 12th, 2010, 2:40 am

[quote=""Miss Moppet""]I've got to finish Time's Legacy for similar reasons (can't renew, someone else wants it) but if you do like it enough to order the others let me know and maybe we can buddy read the next one. As I recall the first Marianne is split into two, The Bride of Selton Hall and The Eagle and the Nightingale, is it just Selton Hall you have?[/quote]

The edition I have has three parts, Bride of Selton Hall, Limping Devil and Eagle and the Nightingale. I've been a bit confused on the series (see fantastic fiction) so I assume I've got books #1 & #2. Unless something goes belly-up with this book I most definitely want to continue. Very promising so far. After this as best as I can tell the library has the rest of the series so I can take my leisure. http://catalog.kcls.org/search/Y?juliette%20benzoni
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Post by Amanda » Thu August 12th, 2010, 2:44 am

The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir. So far....better than The Captive Queen!

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Post by Miss Moppet » Thu August 12th, 2010, 3:56 am

[quote=""Misfit""]The edition I have has three parts, Bride of Selton Hall, Limping Devil and Eagle and the Nightingale. I've been a bit confused on the series (see fantastic fiction) so I assume I've got books #1 & #2. Unless something goes belly-up with this book I most definitely want to continue. Very promising so far. After this as best as I can tell the library has the rest of the series so I can take my leisure. http://catalog.kcls.org/search/Y?juliette%20benzoni[/quote]

Right, I have no clue where Limping Devil fits into it. But I don't have the whole series so I'm not too clear on the order myself. They are great books though. The Catherine series by Juliette Benzoni is super too - commissioned by the publisher because Angelique was so popular.

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Post by annis » Thu August 12th, 2010, 4:47 am

I'm still sulking because the last Catherine book was never published in an English language editon :(

Currently reading Winifred Holtby's classic of 1930s provincial English life, South Riding. I've been meaning to read this for ages, and spotted a cheap copy on an online auction site the other week.

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Post by 4ever Queen » Thu August 12th, 2010, 5:02 am

[quote=""Vanessa""]I'm about to start The Confessions of Catherine de Medici. (I've just finished the last book in the TV Book Club series which I've been following.)[/quote]

Enjoy it Vanessa! it was a great read for me, I just finished it last Monday.

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