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What are you reading? April 2011
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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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Those are pretty high standards.It just isn't measuring up to a Du Maurier like read, or even a Victoria Holt.
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CrimsonPetal
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- Posts: 72
- Joined: August 2009
- Location: Texas, USA
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[quote=""Margaret""]Those are pretty high standards.[/quote]
Yep, but she can't even come up to the quality of say Susannah Kearsley in this. I've just bailed. The story in the past was as unappealing as that in the present, and don't get me started on the dialog
Yep, but she can't even come up to the quality of say Susannah Kearsley in this. I've just bailed. The story in the past was as unappealing as that in the present, and don't get me started on the dialog
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
I should be reading a review book, but after a week of National Library Week chaos, I don't want to have to concentrate that hard. Instead I picked up a recent purchase - Katherine Webb's The Legacy, a multi-period novel about family secrets. It felt very ethereal at the beginning, like so much was being hidden that I couldn't get a grip on the story. Now that a Western-themed plotline has started (set in early 20th-c Oklahoma), things are starting to coalesce, but it took 100 pages to get there.
Death in the Forest by Jeremy Potter (pub 1977), a mystery set in England 20 years after the Norman Conquest, and featuring the sons of William the Conqueror and Anglo-Saxon princess, Edith, daughter of Margaret of Wessex and King Malcolm III of Scotland (Edith married Henry I and took the name Matilda).
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Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4277
- 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
I'm about to start East of the Sun by Julia Gregson, a story set mainly in India in the 1920s.
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
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MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3564
- 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
