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What Are You Reading? April 2013
- Berengaria
- Avid Reader
- Posts: 307
- Joined: July 2010
- Location: northern Vancouver Island, BC Canada
Finished The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman - very enjoyable. It's a warm-hearted and mostly predictable read, (except for a twist in the heroine's past I didn't see coming) but that's not to take anything away from it. It's absorbing and well written. I even learned some useful midwifery stuff on the research side (author is a retired midwife).
Now on a modern thriller. The Ghost by Robert Harris.
Now on a modern thriller. The Ghost by Robert Harris.
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
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4293
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
I'm reading Hurry Up and Wait by Isabel Ashdown, a contemporary coming of age story.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4293
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
I'll be starting The Duchess of Drury Lane by Freda Lightfoot later on - the story of actress Dorothy Jordan's 20 year relationship with King William IV.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
I started 'Excellent Women' by Barbara Pym last night. I'm enjoying it so far.
I gave up on 'The Forgotten Queen' by D.L Bogdan which is odd as enjoyed her books 'Rivals in the Tudor Court' & 'Secrets of the Tudor Court'....but I'll still keep a check on any future books as I usually enjoy her writing.
Bec
I gave up on 'The Forgotten Queen' by D.L Bogdan which is odd as enjoyed her books 'Rivals in the Tudor Court' & 'Secrets of the Tudor Court'....but I'll still keep a check on any future books as I usually enjoy her writing.
Bec

- Lisa
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1153
- Joined: August 2012
- Favourite HF book: Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
- Preferred HF: Any time period/location. Timeslip, usually prefer female POV. Also love Gothic melodrama.
- Location: Northeast Scotland
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Well I finished The Kingmakers Daughter by Philippa Gregory and now I am reading Debs at War by Anne De Courcy which is worth looking at.[/quote]
How did you find The Kingmaker's Daughter? I've avoided it so far because I couldn't even finish the Red Queen and White Queen (and it's rare that I don't finish a book), and I didn't go near Lady of the Rivers, but I wonder if the series has picked up? I enjoyed The Other Boleyn Girl and The Boleyn Inheritance but didn't care much for the rest of the Tudor series, so I know PG can be a hit or a miss (mostly a miss it seems...).
Well I finished The Kingmakers Daughter by Philippa Gregory and now I am reading Debs at War by Anne De Courcy which is worth looking at.[/quote]
How did you find The Kingmaker's Daughter? I've avoided it so far because I couldn't even finish the Red Queen and White Queen (and it's rare that I don't finish a book), and I didn't go near Lady of the Rivers, but I wonder if the series has picked up? I enjoyed The Other Boleyn Girl and The Boleyn Inheritance but didn't care much for the rest of the Tudor series, so I know PG can be a hit or a miss (mostly a miss it seems...).