The End of Everything (non HF by Megan Abbott) for Amazon Vine.
Also have The Dressmaker by Posie Graeme Evans on the Vine TBR and have just bought Circus of Ghosts by Barbara Ewing.
I have just finished The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and loved it. It has a historical element to it but it's not a historical.
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What Are You Reading? September 2011
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[quote=""fljustice""]Loved The Graveyard Book, but I have yet to read a Gaiman book I didn't![/quote]
I am certainly going to go on and read all of his others. I love his writing. I've only read Stardust and The Graveyard Book so far, but both of those do have a historical element -particularly Stardust. I marginally preferred the film but that was because the structure was slightly better and the story arcs were carried through to more satisfying conclusions - the Captain Shakespeare element was made so much bigger and better in the film and the ending scene with the witches the same - but the book is still brilliant even so.
I am certainly going to go on and read all of his others. I love his writing. I've only read Stardust and The Graveyard Book so far, but both of those do have a historical element -particularly Stardust. I marginally preferred the film but that was because the structure was slightly better and the story arcs were carried through to more satisfying conclusions - the Captain Shakespeare element was made so much bigger and better in the film and the ending scene with the witches the same - but the book is still brilliant even so.
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.'
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I read Posie Graeme Evans' Dressmaker earlier this year. Graeme Evans pulls out all the stops in this entertaining Victorian-era family saga along Barbara Taylor Bradford/ Jennifer Donnelly lines. It positively overflows with Victorian tropes- the Poor but Pretty Waif who also doubles as the Plucky Little Battler, the Faithful Servant, the Consumptive Mother and the Bounder Husband are just a few I identified. A young girl is orphaned at 13, and ends up making her way in London as a fashionable modiste. Deserted and left pregnant by aforementioned Bounder, will she ever find love? Lots of predictable fun, best taken with a glass of wine, box of chocolates and tissue box at hand. In true Victorian fashion there's plenty of melodrama and sufficient languishing deaths guaranteed to get you sniffling luxuriously, even though you know your heartstrings are being shamelessly manipulated-also have The Dressmaker by Posie Graeme Evans on the Vine TBR and have just bought Circus of Ghosts by Barbara Ewing.

LOL Annis, thanks for that summary! I wouldn't make novels like that my regular diet, but now and again - like a big box of chocolates, nothing else quite hits the spot, and when one of those sorts of moments arises, I love to indulge. I will save for when I'm in just such a mood! 

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
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[quote=""Elysium""]Lady of the English by EC. Loving it![/quote]
Lucky! I want it.
Lucky! I want it.
Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}