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What Are You Reading? December 2012
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
~Susan~
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Finished The Anatomist's Wife yesterday. Excellent historical mystery set in 1830s Scotland. Not sure what to start next.
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
I finished 'Me Before You' by Jojo Moyes yesterday and it is simply brilliant. If you haven't read it then you're truly missing out....I don't want to say too much in case of spoilers but there is such a lightness of touch and such a well pool of emotion but it is not sentimental or cloying....I'll be reading more of her books...But as EC mentioned I don't know if she will ever be able to outdo this particular book. It is simply wonderful and deeply moving.
Bec
PS: Now I will have to choose a new book...decisions decisions. 
Bec


[quote=""Tanzanite""]Finished Sacred Treason by James Forrester (thought it was pretty good but not outstanding). Now on to The Lady of Secrets by Susan Carroll.[/quote]
I enjoyed Sacred Treason but had to suspend my disbelief at some of the derring do undertaken by the characters. That they were still able to function and undertake missions after what had happened to them was a bit of a stretch.
I enjoyed Sacred Treason but had to suspend my disbelief at some of the derring do undertaken by the characters. That they were still able to function and undertake missions after what had happened to them was a bit of a stretch.
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
[quote=""rebecca""]I finished 'Me Before You' by Jojo Moyes yesterday and it is simply brilliant. If you haven't read it then you're truly missing out....I don't want to say too much in case of spoilers but there is such a lightness of touch and such a well pool of emotion but it is not sentimental or cloying....I'll be reading more of her books...But as EC mentioned I don't know if she will ever be able to outdo this particular book. It is simply wonderful and deeply moving.
Bec
PS: Now I will have to choose a new book...decisions decisions.
[/quote]
It's always difficult when you've read a superb book. Nothing else will quite fit the bill. Agree totally re Me Before You.
Finished River of Destiny Tonight by Barbara Erskine. Her best in a long time. I enjoyed every page.
Bec


It's always difficult when you've read a superb book. Nothing else will quite fit the bill. Agree totally re Me Before You.

Finished River of Destiny Tonight by Barbara Erskine. Her best in a long time. I enjoyed every page.
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
- 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
[quote=""Ludmilla""]Read Stella Riley's The Marigold Chain over the weekend and have just started one of her English Civil War novels, A Splendid Defiance, which covers the siege of Banbury castle. Consequently, that old nursery rhyme about Banbury Cross is floating through my head and won't go away. LOL![/quote]
A Splendid Defiance is excellent, so happy to see it out on Kindle. I hear Riley's added extra scenes to this new version.
A Splendid Defiance is excellent, so happy to see it out on Kindle. I hear Riley's added extra scenes to this new version.
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