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November 2010: What Are You Reading?
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4320
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Don't forget to let us know what you think of it!! It's a recent addition to my TBR pile.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- cw gortner
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1288
- Joined: September 2008
- Location: San Francisco,CA
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It must be a trend
I've heard so much about her books, I picked up House of Riverton yesterday. If I like it, I'll probably get Distant Hours.
In the middle of Heresy; it's picked up steam and I'm enjoying it, though I'm not quite sure yet why Giordano Bruno is the lead. It seems as though the author could have used any well-educated Catholic with a charge of heresy against them, even perhaps made the lead a fictional one; Bruno's astonishing historical persona so far has almost no bearing on the story itself. Nevertheless, it's an engrossing read, in the mold of C.J. Sansom's work.

In the middle of Heresy; it's picked up steam and I'm enjoying it, though I'm not quite sure yet why Giordano Bruno is the lead. It seems as though the author could have used any well-educated Catholic with a charge of heresy against them, even perhaps made the lead a fictional one; Bruno's astonishing historical persona so far has almost no bearing on the story itself. Nevertheless, it's an engrossing read, in the mold of C.J. Sansom's work.
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
I tried The House At Riverton but was so-so. It wasn't the best thing since sliced bread but it wasn't totally dire either, just average and better at the beginning than it was at the end. I probably won't read another as I have so much else on the TBR.
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=""Amanda""]I'm reading Clean: The Unsanitised History of Washing by Katherine Ashenburg[/quote]
Felt I had to share this quote from the book, a small factoid in the margin:
"Shortly before Louis XIV died in 1715, a new ordinance decreed that faeces left in the corridors of Versailles would be removed once a week."

I remembered reading in Farewell My Queen, that Versailles was a thoroughly stinky place and infested with rats, but this is a new level of understanding just how stinky!
Felt I had to share this quote from the book, a small factoid in the margin:
"Shortly before Louis XIV died in 1715, a new ordinance decreed that faeces left in the corridors of Versailles would be removed once a week."

I remembered reading in Farewell My Queen, that Versailles was a thoroughly stinky place and infested with rats, but this is a new level of understanding just how stinky!
- Margaret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2440
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: I can't answer this in 100 characters. Sorry.
- Favourite HF book: Checkmate, the final novel in the Lymond series
- Preferred HF: Literary novels. Late medieval and Renaissance.
- Location: Catskill, New York, USA
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Once a day would be excessively persnickety, I guess. (I was going to use another word than "persnickety" but thought the pun might be going too far.)"Shortly before Louis XIV died in 1715, a new ordinance decreed that faeces left in the corridors of Versailles would be removed once a week."
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