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What are you reading? April 2011

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boswellbaxter
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Post by boswellbaxter » Sat April 23rd, 2011, 6:17 pm

Welcome, Steve! Feel free to list your book here (other authors on this board are welcome to do the same).
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Post by Misfit » Sat April 23rd, 2011, 6:27 pm

[quote=""Steve Anderson""]Hi all. New guy here. I just started Field Gray by Philip Kerr. If you're not familiar, his Bernie Gunther series is historical espionage/crime noir. In this one former Berlin detective Gunther has to come clean about his role in WWII, and the story switches between the 1940s and 1950s. Like it so far. It's already better than his last one and definitely my kind of read.[/quote]

Hi Steve, welcome. Always nice to see a new face here.
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Post by Steve Anderson » Sat April 23rd, 2011, 7:28 pm

[quote=""boswellbaxter""]Welcome, Steve! Feel free to list your book here (other authors on this board are welcome to do the same).[/quote]

[quote=""Misfit""]Hi Steve, welcome. Always nice to see a new face here.[/quote]

Thanks so much for the welcome you two! And for the authors thread -- good to know. Be seeing you around soon.

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Post by Tanzanite » Sat April 23rd, 2011, 10:28 pm

Reading Rivals in the Tudor Court by DL Bogdan. I'm not that far into it yet, but liking it so far.

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Post by Veronica » Sun April 24th, 2011, 4:14 am

Jane Seymour - Frances B Clark as well as The lady Elizabeth - Alison Weir
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Vanessa
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Post by Vanessa » Sun April 24th, 2011, 10:25 am

I shall be starting Althea by Madeleine E Robins later on today, a Librarything Early Reviewer ebook. It looks like it's a little similar to a Georgette Heyer.
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Post by Misfit » Sun April 24th, 2011, 1:16 pm

Finishing up The Farthest Eden by Louise O'Flaherty (old Los Angeles) and then plan to dig into Columbia by Pamela Jekel. Set in the Pacific Northwest and the Columbia River. From the jacket fluff it looks like it winds up with the building of the Grand Coulee Dam.
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Post by LoobyG » Sun April 24th, 2011, 6:48 pm

Finished Kate Quinn's 'Daughters of Rome' yesterday which I highly recommend, a really good book. Can't wait to see what Kate's next book will be :) As I've got so many Dynasty books on Mt tbr, I've started 'The Hidden Shore' by Cynthia Harrod Eagles.

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Post by Telynor » Sun April 24th, 2011, 10:21 pm

Read Beth Patillo's Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart today, and to be honest, didn't care for it much. Just too predictable. Grumble. Not sure of what's next at the moment.

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Post by Misfit » Mon April 25th, 2011, 2:15 am

Columbia by Pamela Jekel. About the Columbia River of the Pacific Northwest. Has a river ever had a *biography* before?
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