[quote=""Mello""]Hello to everyone in this very interesting HF community! It has taken me some time to finally delurk and come on board - I really just love to read and learn so making the step to interact is a little bit foreign!
So, to my reading habits.....I started at 13 or 14 reading Jean Plaidy and Juliette Benzoni and then began a love of all things royal, English and French. Recently in a fit of nostalgia, I tracked down and bought some of their old books just for comfort's sake. I don't know when I will re-read them though - therein lies my problem - I am not a fast reader and my TBR pile grows faster than I can read. I realised though after reading through the posts on here that a lot of my books on said pile are favourites here - Dorothy Dunnett and Sharon Penman's to name a couple. But I have found even more authors that I am itching to read. Trouble lies ahead![/quote]
Sharon Penman is one of my faves as well! Welcome to the site, and don't be shy!
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- Reader
- Posts: 57
- Joined: February 2009
- Location: Ormond Beach, Florida USA
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3562
- Joined: August 2008
- 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.
- Location: California Bay Area
Welcome, Mello! I find the solution to the TBR lies here as well as the problem. I have learned from following the threads on various books (but then, I'm one of those odd people that doesn't mind spoilers) and in many cases, saved myself from wasting time on books that are not my particular cup of tea. Unfortunately, for every one I eliminate, three others sound like I would enjoy them very much!
- cw gortner
- Bibliophile
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Welcome, Mello!
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
www.cwgortner.com
THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN
www.cwgortner.com
- juleswatson
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Hi Mello! From a fellow Aussie transplanted. I just joined, too, and have made no headway on reading actual books yet - but lots of headway in being dazzled by the array of what COULD be read. My TBR list is growing daily in my head and making it swim. The knowledge displayed on these boards is pretty amazing, all in all.
Author of Celtic historical fantasy
New book "THE RAVEN QUEEN" out Feb 22 2011: The story of Maeve, the famous warrior queen of Irish mythology.
Out now, "THE SWAN MAIDEN", the ancient tale of Deirdre, the Irish 'Helen of Troy'
http://www.juleswatson.com
New book "THE RAVEN QUEEN" out Feb 22 2011: The story of Maeve, the famous warrior queen of Irish mythology.
Out now, "THE SWAN MAIDEN", the ancient tale of Deirdre, the Irish 'Helen of Troy'
http://www.juleswatson.com