Well, I abandoned Restoration pretty quickly. In chapter 2, Charles II starts going down on one of his mistresses while the narrator describes her feminine parts in coarse modern terms. Do you hear the book hitting the wall?
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[quote=""JaneConsumer""]Well, I abandoned Restoration pretty quickly. In chapter 2, Charles II starts going down on one of his mistresses while the narrator describes her feminine parts in coarse modern terms. Do you hear the book hitting the wall?
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Oh dear....I wondered what that loud noise was.
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Oh dear....I wondered what that loud noise was.

[quote=""JaneConsumer""]Well, I abandoned Restoration pretty quickly. In chapter 2, Charles II starts going down on one of his mistresses while the narrator describes her feminine parts in coarse modern terms. Do you hear the book hitting the wall?
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Eeeew!!!
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[quote=""JaneConsumer""]Well, I abandoned Restoration pretty quickly. In chapter 2, Charles II starts going down on one of his mistresses while the narrator describes her feminine parts in coarse modern terms. Do you hear the book hitting the wall?[/quote]
That's a shame, cause I love the movie, which is no where near as coarse as you say the book is.
SM
That's a shame, cause I love the movie, which is no where near as coarse as you say the book is.
SM
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I've just been reading another book about Charles II, Jane, Georgette Heyer's "Royal Escape", which is set in the period when the young Charles, having suffered defeat at the 1651 Battle of Worcester, is hunted by Parliamentary forces while on a desperate race to reach the coast and a ship heading to the safety of France.
I thoroughly enjoyed it. The story has plenty of tension and many well-drawn characters. Charles himself is a wonderful creation - a person worthy of love and respect. He's already become cynical and rather embittered by his experiences, but is high-hearted, generous of spirit, brave and full of a reckless charm. You could absolutely see why so many people would put themselves at risk by helping him. And there's no sex at all!
I thoroughly enjoyed it. The story has plenty of tension and many well-drawn characters. Charles himself is a wonderful creation - a person worthy of love and respect. He's already become cynical and rather embittered by his experiences, but is high-hearted, generous of spirit, brave and full of a reckless charm. You could absolutely see why so many people would put themselves at risk by helping him. And there's no sex at all!
It is what I am not reading that bothers me ... up to a point.
Doing historical research to guarantee accuracy for a HF WIP is time consuming as you all know, often more in the hunt for sources than in the reading.
Doing historical research to guarantee accuracy for a HF WIP is time consuming as you all know, often more in the hunt for sources than in the reading.

Bodo the Apostate, a novel set during the reign of Louis the Pious and end of the Carolingian Empire.
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Just finished The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory. Not quite 'meh' but very close. I really need something to whoosh me out of the reading blahs now so I'm going to re-read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (been re-reading the series slowly for a while). I considered a Robert Crais thriller for a moment, but I feel like a bit of magic and fantasy.
Research reading = re-reads too. Sidney Painter's The Reign of King John and J.C. Holt's The Northerners.
Research reading = re-reads too. Sidney Painter's The Reign of King John and J.C. Holt's The Northerners.
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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
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My library told me my copy of The Other Queen was ready so I'm 13 pages into that.
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