Welcome to the Historical Fiction Online forums: a friendly place to discuss, review and discover historical fiction.
If this is your first visit, please be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above.
You will have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
To start viewing posts, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
If this is your first visit, please be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above.
You will have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
To start viewing posts, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
What are you reading August 2011?
- sweetpotatoboy
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1641
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: London, UK
- CrimsonPetal
- Reader
- Posts: 72
- Joined: August 2009
- Location: Texas, USA
- Contact:
- princess garnet
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1591
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Maryland
Katherine of Aragon by Plaidy (omnibus ed)
Initially I didn't have an interest when it was reissued 6 years ago. I finally bought it some time back with the new cover. Since it's an omnibus, this will take me some time to read.
Having read CW's The Last Queen, I have a different contrast of Juana of Castile, now that I'm re-encountering her again.
Initially I didn't have an interest when it was reissued 6 years ago. I finally bought it some time back with the new cover. Since it's an omnibus, this will take me some time to read.
Having read CW's The Last Queen, I have a different contrast of Juana of Castile, now that I'm re-encountering her again.
Last edited by princess garnet on Thu August 11th, 2011, 1:36 am, edited 6 times in total.
- Miss Moppet
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1726
- Joined: April 2009
- Location: North London
- Contact:
[quote=""Brenna""]As it so happens, reading both When Christ and His Saints Slept and EC's Lady of the English is exactly what I plan on doing. I have to order EC's book today, but I've already started rereeading Saints. I can't believe how much I have forgotten in the two years since I read it last.[/quote]
Just started Lady of the English myself and I got Saints out of the library again so I could compare and contrast if I wanted to. Going to start a buddy read thread so we can discuss.
Just started Lady of the English myself and I got Saints out of the library again so I could compare and contrast if I wanted to. Going to start a buddy read thread so we can discuss.
- SonjaMarie
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5688
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Vashon, WA
- Contact:
I've finished 2 books today:
"The Royal Tombs of Great Britain" by Aidan Dodson (227pgs, 2004)~. A quick and interesting read. The one odd thing about it is that why he tries to show images of all the tombs/effigies that he can, he only shows the outside of where Victoria and Albert are. I've seen the effigies, they were on the cover of a book, so why couldn't/didn't he show them?
"The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History" by Maura Spiegel & Lithe Sebesta (462pgs, 2002).* Another quick and easy read despite the page total. That total is a bit of cheat because the actual size of the book is very small, the page total is long but the page size is very short, in a regular sized book, I think it would be half the size. If I was a guy I would've been taking a lot longer time to read it, LOL!
This is my favourite image from it, the look on Sophia Loren's face is priceless, the other woman is Jayne Mansfield:

SM
"The Royal Tombs of Great Britain" by Aidan Dodson (227pgs, 2004)~. A quick and interesting read. The one odd thing about it is that why he tries to show images of all the tombs/effigies that he can, he only shows the outside of where Victoria and Albert are. I've seen the effigies, they were on the cover of a book, so why couldn't/didn't he show them?
"The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History" by Maura Spiegel & Lithe Sebesta (462pgs, 2002).* Another quick and easy read despite the page total. That total is a bit of cheat because the actual size of the book is very small, the page total is long but the page size is very short, in a regular sized book, I think it would be half the size. If I was a guy I would've been taking a lot longer time to read it, LOL!
This is my favourite image from it, the look on Sophia Loren's face is priceless, the other woman is Jayne Mansfield:

SM
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)
Full List Here: http://www.historicalfictiononline.com/ ... p?p=114965
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
- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5724
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: "The Moor" by L J Ross
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime
- Location: Essex/London
Oh yes I love La Loren's expression!
Just started reading Lee Child's "Worth Dying For", some alpha-male stuff for a change, and Kate Morton's "The Distant Hours".
Just started reading Lee Child's "Worth Dying For", some alpha-male stuff for a change, and Kate Morton's "The Distant Hours".
Last edited by Madeleine on Thu August 11th, 2011, 9:12 am, edited 1 time in total.
Currently reading: "The Moor" by L J Ross
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4243
- 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
Well, I suppose it is a bit of an eyeful!!!! LOL.
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
Lol if that was Loren's expression, I wonder what the men in the room thought of that cleavage?!
Have put 'Avalon' by Anya Seton down for a bit, I've got to the part when Merewyn and Rumon are at court but I don't feel in the mood to continue, so I'm on 'Save Karyn - one shopaholic's journey to debt and back' by Karyn Bosnak at the moment 

