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What are you reading? April 2011
Starting The Farthest Eden by Louise O'Flaherty. Starts in California, 1850's.
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
- SonjaMarie
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I've finished "Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women In Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe" by Brian Dolan (312pgs, 2001)*. An interesting look at how women traveled and what they did afterwards, like write travel books and such.
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The Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum
My Booksfree Queue
Original Join Date: Mar 2006
Previous Amount of Posts: 2,517
Books Read In 2014: 109 - June: 17 (May: 17)
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My Booksfree Queue
Original Join Date: Mar 2006
Previous Amount of Posts: 2,517
Books Read In 2014: 109 - June: 17 (May: 17)
Full List Here: http://www.historicalfictiononline.com/ ... p?p=114965
- Margaret
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- 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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The Trees by Conrad Richter
One of my old high school friends (we are astrological twins) sent me Conrad Richter's trilogy about pioneers moving westward beyond the Ohio River. I've just finished the first, The Trees. It's a vivid portrayal of what life must have been like for those families taken westward by men with "itchy feet." I'll be putting a review up tomorrow.
Browse over 5000 historical novel listings (probably well over 5000 by now, but I haven't re-counted lately) and over 700 reviews at www.HistoricalNovels.info
Just discovered that Jan Cox Speas' historical romances are being reissued this year. My Love, My Enemy (seafaring adventure during the War of 1812) is the first to come out. I downloaded to my Kindle last night and started reading. I had completely forgotten about these books until I saw a blurb about their reissue.
About to start The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar. I wonder if he writes like Amitav Ghosh. I won't begin reading until tomorrow.
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
The Wild Rose by Jennifer Donnely. I know I'm going to love it, but I'm thinking I might have a few questions for my mountain climbling summited Mt. Everest boss...
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