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What Are You Reading? March 2011
[quote=""Divia""]Welcome aboard.I'm reading Fever 1793, a YA novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. It's set in Philadelphia, and the fever is yellow fever. So far, very good.

I havent read that one. I know of it though, we have it in the library.
I also found out that her latest novel Forge ...she asked one of my professors for assistance due to his expertise in early American history. I thought..way cool~[/quote]
I like her historicals, but haven't been interested in her contemporaries. I enjoyed Fever, Chains and Forge (though I think Chains is a stronger/better work). I recognized some characters, or mentions of them, in Forge that are from Fever. It was a pleasant little bonus.
I'm almost done with The Raven Queen and have picked up an old romantic suspense spy thriller, Message from Absalom, by Anne Armstrong Thompson.
[quote=""Gretchen Craig""]I'm reading Fever 1793, a YA novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. It's set in Philadelphia, and the fever is yellow fever. So far, very good.[/quote] I listened to an audio version of that several years ago and really enjoyed it.
[quote=""fljustice""] Starting She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea by Joan Druett.[/quote] Isn't she a New Zealand author? I vaguely recall reading a historical fiction by her several years ago and it was, well, mediocre at best. Hopefully she does better with NF.
[quote=""fljustice""] Starting She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea by Joan Druett.[/quote] Isn't she a New Zealand author? I vaguely recall reading a historical fiction by her several years ago and it was, well, mediocre at best. Hopefully she does better with NF.

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[quote=""Stephanie Dray""]I'm reading CW Gortner's Confessions of Catherine De Medicci. And I'm totally digging the little touches of magic realism in her visions. But then, I would...
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So nice to hear, Stephanie! Thank you.

So nice to hear, Stephanie! Thank you.
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
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[quote=""Perdita""]There's a follow up? That's brilliant.[/quote]
Out May 3.
Elizabeth I is too large for me to lug on my commute so I'm also reading James McGee's Ratcatcher back and forth from work. The hero is a Bow Street runner in Regency London; it's very cool. As in, James Bond cool
Out May 3.
Elizabeth I is too large for me to lug on my commute so I'm also reading James McGee's Ratcatcher back and forth from work. The hero is a Bow Street runner in Regency London; it's very cool. As in, James Bond cool

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
Started Voyager by Diana Gabaldon last night.
~Susan~
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- MLE (Emily Cotton)
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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
Lessee, so far this month it's been:
The Temptation of the Night Jasmine by Lauren Willig (3 stars)
Encyclopedia of the Exquisite by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins (NF, 4 stars)
The King's Man, the third book in her new series about Amunhotep son of Hapu, by Pauline Gedge (4 stars)
At Home by Bill Bryson -- very good and enjoying it a lot.
Queens Consort by Lisa Hilton, and getting bogged down a lot.
The Temptation of the Night Jasmine by Lauren Willig (3 stars)
Encyclopedia of the Exquisite by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins (NF, 4 stars)
The King's Man, the third book in her new series about Amunhotep son of Hapu, by Pauline Gedge (4 stars)
At Home by Bill Bryson -- very good and enjoying it a lot.
Queens Consort by Lisa Hilton, and getting bogged down a lot.
[quote=""Michy""]Isn't she a New Zealand author? I vaguely recall reading a historical fiction by her several years ago and it was, well, mediocre at best. Hopefully she does better with NF.
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Yes, she also wrote Hen Frigates about ships where captains brought their wives. This is one I picked up years ago from the bargain bin and has sat on my TBR shelf forever. She gets one chapter to hold me!

Yes, she also wrote Hen Frigates about ships where captains brought their wives. This is one I picked up years ago from the bargain bin and has sat on my TBR shelf forever. She gets one chapter to hold me!