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What Are You Reading? March 2013
- Berengaria
- Avid Reader
- Posts: 307
- Joined: July 2010
- Location: northern Vancouver Island, BC Canada
I am reading The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff. Really enjoying it, so bought the sort of sequel The Diplomat's Wife She's just come out with a novel set during the 1919 Versailles Treaty talks called The Ambassador's Daughter I'll probably buy this one, too! 


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[quote=""Berengaria""]I am reading The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff. Really enjoying it, so bought the sort of sequel The Diplomat's Wife She's just come out with a novel set during the 1919 Versailles Treaty talks called The Ambassador's Daughter I'll probably buy this one, too!
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The Kommandant's Girl was quite good. I didn't quite get into The Diplomat's Wife as much but it was an ok read. I have also got The Ambassador's Daughter to read. I think she also had another book before the new one, which was a bit more contemporary, and the blurb didn't grab me.

The Kommandant's Girl was quite good. I didn't quite get into The Diplomat's Wife as much but it was an ok read. I have also got The Ambassador's Daughter to read. I think she also had another book before the new one, which was a bit more contemporary, and the blurb didn't grab me.
Tim Powers' Hide Me Among the Graves, a literary Victorian paranormal thriller, with Pre-Raphaelites. Thought this would be right up my alley, but just not doing it for me somehow - too meandering. Will persevere a bit longer before I give it the heave-ho...
- 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""]Tim Powers' Hide Me Among the Graves, a literary Victorian paranormal thriller, with Pre-Raphaelites. Thought this would be right up my alley, but just not doing it for me somehow - too meandering. Will persevere a bit longer before I give it the heave-ho...[/quote]
Oh dear, I liked the sound of this one too, but the reviews are mixed.
Oh dear, I liked the sound of this one too, but the reviews are mixed.

Currently reading: "Celebrations at the Chateau" by Jo Thomas
Finished the new India Black Book. Starting Snare of Serpents by Victoria Holt.
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
- 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