Darn it- one of my New Year's Resolutions down the tubes already - to lay of buying books so often. I've just gone and ordered Sarah Bowers' "Needle in the Blood" from Book Depository.
And we won't even mention the chocolate biscuits---
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- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
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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.
- Location: California Bay Area
[quote=""Misfit""]

No worries. I'm still trying to figure out how I sold at least three copies (that I know of) of a $.01 used paperback - let alone waiting to see what the rest of you think about it.[/quote]
Misfit, make that 4 copies; I have it on order from paperback swap, expecting it in a day or two. And since my daughter (Loisann) and I share all our historical novels, that will mean 2 more readers based on your recommendation. Are you beginning to feel the pressure???


No worries. I'm still trying to figure out how I sold at least three copies (that I know of) of a $.01 used paperback - let alone waiting to see what the rest of you think about it.[/quote]
Misfit, make that 4 copies; I have it on order from paperback swap, expecting it in a day or two. And since my daughter (Loisann) and I share all our historical novels, that will mean 2 more readers based on your recommendation. Are you beginning to feel the pressure???
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. (1873) -- Louisa May Alcott
[quote=""lindymc""]Misfit, make that 4 copies; I have it on order from paperback swap, expecting it in a day or two. And since my daughter (Loisann) and I share all our historical novels, that will mean 2 more readers based on your recommendation. Are you beginning to feel the pressure???[/quote]
Oh dear, the fat is really in the fire now isn't it? I'm still trying to figure out how BB skims a book, cooks dinner and cuddles the dog

Oh dear, the fat is really in the fire now isn't it? I'm still trying to figure out how BB skims a book, cooks dinner and cuddles the dog



- boswellbaxter
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[quote=""Misfit""]Oh dear, the fat is really in the fire now isn't it? I'm still trying to figure out how BB skims a book, cooks dinner and cuddles the dog
[/quote]
Eats dinner, not cooks it! Cooking is in short supply here.



Eats dinner, not cooks it! Cooking is in short supply here.
Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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[quote=""red805""]Spent the Amazon.com gift certificate I received
, based on favorite books from some of your lists, for - Forever Amber (Kathleen Winsor), The Kings Pleasure:A Novel of Katharine of Aragon (Norah Lofts), The Sunne In Splendour:A Novel of Richard III (Sharon Kay Penman), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer), The Falcon of Palermo (Maria Bordihn) - I think my dog ate the cover off my original copy, The Crimson Petal and the White (Michel Faber), & the dvd The Name of the Rose.[/quote]
You're in for a treat! The ones I've read of these are quite good (Forever Amber ranks up there as a favorite I've read and re-read).

You're in for a treat! The ones I've read of these are quite good (Forever Amber ranks up there as a favorite I've read and re-read).
[quote=""Susan""]I also just spent an Amazon gift certificate and got:
"Mr. Timothy: A Novel" by Louis Bayard
"Company of Liars" by Karen Maitland
"The King's Daughter. A Novel of the First Tudor Queen" by Sandra Worth
"Duchess: A Novel of Sarah Churchill" by Susan Holloway Scott
"Signora Da Vinci" by Robin Maxwell
"Westminster Abbey (Wonders of the World)" by Richard Jenkyns
"Anne of the Thousand Days / Mary, Queen of Scots" DVD;
"Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster" by Alison Weir I bought this even though (I hemmed and hawed about buying this, but I am very interested in Katherine Swynford)
"Isaac Newton" by James Gleick (for my husband)[/quote]
Comapny of Liars was fantastic! Enjoy. I read an ARC of Mistress of the Monarchy, but didn't like the book so much. Well, I did like parts of it, Weir is very biased, IMO. Also, it was more like a biography of John of Gaunt, with notes about Katherine.
"Mr. Timothy: A Novel" by Louis Bayard
"Company of Liars" by Karen Maitland
"The King's Daughter. A Novel of the First Tudor Queen" by Sandra Worth
"Duchess: A Novel of Sarah Churchill" by Susan Holloway Scott
"Signora Da Vinci" by Robin Maxwell
"Westminster Abbey (Wonders of the World)" by Richard Jenkyns
"Anne of the Thousand Days / Mary, Queen of Scots" DVD;
"Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster" by Alison Weir I bought this even though (I hemmed and hawed about buying this, but I am very interested in Katherine Swynford)
"Isaac Newton" by James Gleick (for my husband)[/quote]
Comapny of Liars was fantastic! Enjoy. I read an ARC of Mistress of the Monarchy, but didn't like the book so much. Well, I did like parts of it, Weir is very biased, IMO. Also, it was more like a biography of John of Gaunt, with notes about Katherine.
[quote=""Misfit""]That cover's a keeper isn't it? Waiting to see what the other two in the series are like when they come 
**bites nails** so far that's EC, BB and now Tanzanite that purchased A Silver Mirror because of me. Hope you all like it
[/quote]
Doesn't matter if we don't.
It didn't cost the earth and an unread Gellis is always an event! I've skimmed it too, but won't properly get stuck in for a couple of weeks yet. I am currently reading Ship of Rome by John Stack for Amazon Vine. I so wish he hadn't called his hero Captain Perennis!

**bites nails** so far that's EC, BB and now Tanzanite that purchased A Silver Mirror because of me. Hope you all like it

Doesn't matter if we don't.

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
[quote=""EC2""]Doesn't matter if we don't.
It didn't cost the earth and an unread Gellis is always an event![/quote]
Big spenders, the lot of you
Speaking of unread Gellis I've got all three of her Heiress series now and actually started the third one (bad bad). The first is set in France during The Terror, the second in Cornwall and the heroine's a bit of a smuggler who gets involved with the wealthy lord's son (or something like that), the last dealing with a pair during the Napoleonic wars.

Big spenders, the lot of you


Speaking of unread Gellis I've got all three of her Heiress series now and actually started the third one (bad bad). The first is set in France during The Terror, the second in Cornwall and the heroine's a bit of a smuggler who gets involved with the wealthy lord's son (or something like that), the last dealing with a pair during the Napoleonic wars.