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Ever Heard of This Book?
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- Bibliophile
- Location: Ciinaminson NJ
"the Afflicted Girls" Suzy Witten....a new novel about Salem Village and the time of the famous witch trials/hunt.....Supposedly a new theory/slant on the girls/women that were "Afflicted".....Puritan History is a favorite of mine and have read a fair amount of books about the Witch Trials HF/NF....Reviews regarding TAG have sketchy at best.......Hoping one of you folks might have read it or have written a review.......
- diamondlil
- Bibliomaniac
Haven't read it, but Suzy has posted a couple of times here on the forum.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
- EC2
- Bibliomaniac
- Location: Nottingham UK
- Contact:
"chuck" wrote:"the Afflicted Girls" Suzy Witten....a new novel about Salem Village and the time of the famous witch trials/hunt.....Supposedly a new theory/slant on the girls/women that were "Afflicted".....Puritan History is a favorite of mine and have read a fair amount of books about the Witch Trials HF/NF....Reviews regarding TAG have sketchy at best.......Hoping one of you folks might have read it or have written a review.......
I think the theory is that the girls had Lyme's disease? That's what I've sussed from reading the background,if you look at the author's friend WitchMark at Amazon.com. The novel blurb itself doesn't say so. I think it might be self published but I'm not sure. I looked up the publishers, Dreamwand, but kept being brought back to the author who seems to own Dreamwand? I could be wrong. Perhaps my internet search wasn't that good, but I couldn't find any other titles by this publisher. Blogger Nan Hawthorne has interviewed the author and discussed the book here: http://allsheread.blogspot.com/2009/11/interview-with-suzy-witten-author.html
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
- Misfit
- Bibliomaniac
- Location: Seattle, WA
I just found thiswhen googling the author. Outside of the posts here EC mentioned and a person on Amazon going by the moniker Dreamwand promoing the book at the HF discussions that's all I've heard about it. No buzz at GR nor blogs outside the one EC already noted.
Do you use your local library? Try for a purchase request and see if they get it. They do buy most everything I've requested although not self-published unless there's a lot of good press.
**Edited to add - I am not knocking self-published books. Yes there are some good ones out there among the bad. It's just something I want to know when preparing to making a purchase decision. **
Do you use your local library? Try for a purchase request and see if they get it. They do buy most everything I've requested although not self-published unless there's a lot of good press.
**Edited to add - I am not knocking self-published books. Yes there are some good ones out there among the bad. It's just something I want to know when preparing to making a purchase decision. **
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...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
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- Bibliophile
- Location: Ciinaminson NJ
- 4ever Queen
- Reader
- Location: California
Has anyone heard of Eleanor Herman? A friend loan me two books of her called Sex with the Queen(s) and Sex with the King...??? anyone??
"A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival" (Here Be Dragons)
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- boswellbaxter
- Bibliomaniac
- Location: North Carolina
- Contact:
"4ever Queen" wrote:Has anyone heard of Eleanor Herman? A friend loan me two books of her called Sex with the Queen(s) and Sex with the King...??? anyone??
They're nonfiction--stories about royal lovers. I flipped through Sex with the Queen and gave it up then and there when the author started going on about Edward II's "smooth girlish hands" (he was actually an athletic man who liked outdoor pursuits). Probably a fun read, but take it with a grain of salt.
Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/
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Coming in October: The Woodvilles
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/
- 4ever Queen
- Reader
- Location: California
"boswellbaxter" wrote:They're nonfiction--stories about royal lovers. I flipped through Sex with the Queen and gave it up then and there when the author started going on about Edward II's "smooth girlish hands" (he was actually an athletic man who liked outdoor pursuits). Probably a fun read, but take it with a grain of salt.
Thanks boswellbaxter for your comment! I will make note of it if/when I read it. I mostly want to be sure that I am reading "accurate" NF royalty life, and not waste my time if it's not...


"A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival" (Here Be Dragons)
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http://everythingedward2.com/
http://www.sharonkaypenman.com/
http://everythingedward2.com/