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Suggestions for April's Book of the Month
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
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- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
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A Woman of Substance - Barbara Taylor Bradford
May I ask - what is the book for March? I must have missed that...thanks!
May I ask - what is the book for March? I must have missed that...thanks!
"I have dreamed thee too long,
never seen thee or touched thee
but known thee with all of my heart.
Half a prayer, half a song,
thou hast always been with me,
though we have been always apart." Man of LaMancha
MissMarplestein
- diamondlil
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Book of the Month for March is The Master of Verona by David Blixt.
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Edith Wharton
All things Historical Fiction - Historical Tapestry
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
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[quote=""diamondlil""]Book of the Month for March is The Master of Verona by David Blixt.[/quote]
Thank you.
Thank you.
"I have dreamed thee too long,
never seen thee or touched thee
but known thee with all of my heart.
Half a prayer, half a song,
thou hast always been with me,
though we have been always apart." Man of LaMancha
MissMarplestein
[quote=""chuck""]The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan.....Masterfully written tale and Harrigan knows his Texas history.....much more than just about the famous battle.....[/quote]
I need to read this because it's been in my TBR inventory for years - no kidding! I just moved it up from the bottom of a stack of ten to give it a fighting chance.
I need to read this because it's been in my TBR inventory for years - no kidding! I just moved it up from the bottom of a stack of ten to give it a fighting chance.
We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams ~ Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Ode
- Margaret
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- Interest in HF: I can't answer this in 100 characters. Sorry.
- Favourite HF book: Checkmate, the final novel in the Lymond series
- Preferred HF: Literary novels. Late medieval and Renaissance.
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Valerie Martin's a wonderful writer. I've read both Mary Reilly and Property and thought Property the most outstanding, but both are good.
The Gates of the Alamo is also well worth reading. I think it was the first novel about the Alamo that gave a realistic picture of people's lives in Texas during that period and what it was like to be involved in the Battle of the Alamo. In earlier novels, the emphasis tended to be on larger-than-life heroics.
The Gates of the Alamo is also well worth reading. I think it was the first novel about the Alamo that gave a realistic picture of people's lives in Texas during that period and what it was like to be involved in the Battle of the Alamo. In earlier novels, the emphasis tended to be on larger-than-life heroics.
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[quote=""TLee""]On Agate Hill by Lee Smith[/quote]
I liked this one.
There are so many books I would love to throw into the poll.
Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
I liked this one.
There are so many books I would love to throw into the poll.
Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
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