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What Are You Reading? January 2012
- 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
I didn't now there was a new Elly Griffiths out- must hunt it down. I've enjoyed the others in the Ruth Galloway series.
Currently reading the latest in another of my favourite series- I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, the newest Flavia de Luce mystery from Alan Bradley. These are utterly eccentric but quite brilliant, with their precociously smart yet touchingly vulnerable young heroine.
Currently reading the latest in another of my favourite series- I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, the newest Flavia de Luce mystery from Alan Bradley. These are utterly eccentric but quite brilliant, with their precociously smart yet touchingly vulnerable young heroine.
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- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5779
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: "Celebrations at the Chateau" by Jo Thomas
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
[quote=""annis""]I didn't now there was a new Elly Griffiths out- must hunt it down. I've enjoyed the others in the Ruth Galloway series.
Currently reading the latest in another of my favourite series- I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, the newest Flavia de Luce mystery from Alan Bradley. These are utterly eccentric but quite brilliant, with their precociously smart yet touchingly vulnerable young heroine.[/quote]
I like Elly Griffiths's books, I think the new one has only just come out in hb.
I've also just bought the first two Flavia de Luce books, I've heard they're very good.
Currently reading the latest in another of my favourite series- I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, the newest Flavia de Luce mystery from Alan Bradley. These are utterly eccentric but quite brilliant, with their precociously smart yet touchingly vulnerable young heroine.[/quote]
I like Elly Griffiths's books, I think the new one has only just come out in hb.
I've also just bought the first two Flavia de Luce books, I've heard they're very good.
Currently reading: "Celebrations at the Chateau" by Jo Thomas
So I finished Ian Mortimer's The Greatest Traitor and I have to ask those who know way more than I do about Edward II. Did he really "survive" during Roger's reign and then die by his son's hand? Is this commonly believed or did I. Mortimer go out on a limb? And is there really evidence that the Queen had a child by R. Mortimer? The evidence suggested in the book was not very convincing to me.
Brenna
- boswellbaxter
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[quote=""Brenna""]So I finished Ian Mortimer's The Greatest Traitor and I have to ask those who know way more than I do about Edward II. Did he really "survive" during Roger's reign and then die by his son's hand? Is this commonly believed or did I. Mortimer go out on a limb? And is there really evidence that the Queen had a child by R. Mortimer? The evidence suggested in the book was not very convincing to me.[/quote]
Paul Doherty and Alison Weir have also argued for the survival theory but I'm not convinced of it. I'm not as current on Edward II scholarship as I used to be, but I think both Roy Haines and Seymour Phillips, Edward II's major biographers, believe that he died at Berkeley Castle. (On the other hand, a friend of mine who has studied Edward II's reign in depth believes that Mortimer makes a very good case.) As for the child, I don't believe there is any hard evidence of this.
Paul Doherty and Alison Weir have also argued for the survival theory but I'm not convinced of it. I'm not as current on Edward II scholarship as I used to be, but I think both Roy Haines and Seymour Phillips, Edward II's major biographers, believe that he died at Berkeley Castle. (On the other hand, a friend of mine who has studied Edward II's reign in depth believes that Mortimer makes a very good case.) As for the child, I don't believe there is any hard evidence of this.
Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/