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What Are You Reading? August 2012
- Margaret
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- Favourite HF book: Checkmate, the final novel in the Lymond series
- Preferred HF: Literary novels. Late medieval and Renaissance.
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The Twelve Rooms of the Nile by Enid Shomer. Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert were, as a matter of historical fact, both in Egypt doing a tourist thing on the Nile in 1850. This novel imagines that they met and that the meeting changed both of their lives. I'm enjoying it. It's a very character-driven novel, and the characters are quite richly drawn, as is the setting. There's a bit of Jane Eyre in Florence.
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- Nefret
- Bibliomaniac
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- Joined: February 2009
- Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
- Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
- Location: Temple of Isis
For a second, I thought you meant better than a certain Tolkein novel. 
I'm reading just starting that series.

I'm reading just starting that series.
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}
[quote=""rebecca""]Just started 'The Kingmakers Daughter' by Philippa Gregory. It just has to be better than LOTR....Or I'll pull every grey hair out of my head
and then I shall be bald

Bec
[/quote]
I'm not even going near that one. I heard it was on Net Galley and I behaved myself. She sure is pumping them out.




Bec

I'm not even going near that one. I heard it was on Net Galley and I behaved myself. She sure is pumping them out.
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
Almost forgot. Working on Let No Man Divide by Elizabeth Kary. Big fat tiny-fonted Civil War romance. St. Louis setting, at least at the start, with a heroine hell bent on nursing the wounded no matter what side they're on. Stepback cover attached for cover artwork geeks.
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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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Ok, what does "LOTR" mean in this case?!
"Lady of the Rivers"?
SM
"Lady of the Rivers"?
SM
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[quote=""SonjaMarie""]Ok, what does "LOTR" mean in this case?!
"Lady of the Rivers"?
SM[/quote]
Yep Lady of the Rivers(which I hated btw)but I am enjoying her latest, 'Kingmakers Daughter'...But I have a feeling she will end it, right when it's getting interesting. I don't know why she does that?
Bec
"Lady of the Rivers"?
SM[/quote]
Yep Lady of the Rivers(which I hated btw)but I am enjoying her latest, 'Kingmakers Daughter'...But I have a feeling she will end it, right when it's getting interesting. I don't know why she does that?
Bec

- Justin Swanton
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Northanger Abbey. I did it as my O'Level set book and it's fun going back to it all these years (!) later.
Do you notice that in Jane Austin's novels it is enough for well-bred lady and gentleman to meet only about half a dozen times in very circumscribed situations (ball, family tea) before deciding they were in love and would get married? Reading between the lines I pick up that romance was not a prime consideration in the late 18th century marriage game. Money was (obviously). But one had to give a nod at least to the higher feelings.
Do you notice that in Jane Austin's novels it is enough for well-bred lady and gentleman to meet only about half a dozen times in very circumscribed situations (ball, family tea) before deciding they were in love and would get married? Reading between the lines I pick up that romance was not a prime consideration in the late 18th century marriage game. Money was (obviously). But one had to give a nod at least to the higher feelings.
The girl in the steel corset. YA steampunk.
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