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Where Are You Now?

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Madeleine
Bibliomaniac
Posts: 5835
Joined: August 2008
Currently reading: "Murder before Evensong" by Rev Richard Coles
Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
Location: Essex/London

Post by Madeleine » Tue July 7th, 2015, 8:56 am

I've just time-travelled back to the Cretaceous period, not seen any dinosaurs yet though!
Currently reading "Murder before Evensong" by Rev Richard Coles

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Lisa
Bibliophile
Posts: 1153
Joined: August 2012
Favourite HF book: Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
Preferred HF: Any time period/location. Timeslip, usually prefer female POV. Also love Gothic melodrama.
Location: Northeast Scotland

Post by Lisa » Tue July 7th, 2015, 9:29 am

[quote=""Madeleine""]I've just time-travelled back to the Cretaceous period, not seen any dinosaurs yet though![/quote]

Sounds fun! I have that book on my Kindle TBR pile.

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Madeleine
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Posts: 5835
Joined: August 2008
Currently reading: "Murder before Evensong" by Rev Richard Coles
Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
Location: Essex/London

Post by Madeleine » Tue July 7th, 2015, 1:42 pm

[quote=""LadyB""]Sounds fun! I have that book on my Kindle TBR pile.[/quote]

Enjoying it so far, a bit Doctor Who-ish but entertaining.
Currently reading "Murder before Evensong" by Rev Richard Coles

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Nefret
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Posts: 2992
Joined: February 2009
Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
Location: Temple of Isis

Post by Nefret » Fri July 10th, 2015, 3:42 am

Middle Earth, during the War of the Ring.
Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}

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DianeL
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Location: Midatlantic east coast, United States
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Re: Where Are You Now?

Post by DianeL » Sun July 12th, 2015, 2:01 pm

I've been in Asimov's Caves of Steel with Elijah and Jezebel and a robot or two.
"To be the queen, she agreed to be the widow!"

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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
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MLE (Emily Cotton)
Bibliomaniac
Posts: 3565
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

Re: Where Are You Now?

Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Sun July 12th, 2015, 3:11 pm

Ah, the SF classics. I'm reading one too, although it puts me in 6th-century Gothic Rome. with a few modifications introduced by out early-20th-century archaeologist protagonist: brandy, the printing press, and a semaphore signaling system.

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Madeleine
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Joined: August 2008
Currently reading: "Murder before Evensong" by Rev Richard Coles
Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
Location: Essex/London

Re: Where Are You Now?

Post by Madeleine » Mon July 13th, 2015, 8:26 am

Now back in late 18th century Cornwall.
Currently reading "Murder before Evensong" by Rev Richard Coles

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Madeleine
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Joined: August 2008
Currently reading: "Murder before Evensong" by Rev Richard Coles
Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
Location: Essex/London

Re: Where Are You Now?

Post by Madeleine » Tue July 28th, 2015, 9:11 am

Now in modern London, and 1950s Brighton.
Currently reading "Murder before Evensong" by Rev Richard Coles

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blueemerald
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Joined: October 2014
Location: Seattle, WA, USA

Re: Where Are You Now?

Post by blueemerald » Sat August 1st, 2015, 2:51 pm

1781 London just having been sentenced to transportation for life to New South Wales following a false accusation of thievery.

njslater
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Joined: March 2013
Location: London

Re: Where Are You Now?

Post by njslater » Sat August 15th, 2015, 3:44 pm

1895, the Middle East just crossing into eastern Europe and about to catch one of the first runs of the Orient Express
N.J. Slater writer of Napoleonic and Victorian era thrillers

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