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What Are You Reading? September 2013
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Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4270
- 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've just started Annabel by Kathleen Winter, a story set in the 1960s in Labrador, Canada, about an hermaphrodite.
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
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sweetpotatoboy
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1641
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: London, UK
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Nefret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2980
- Joined: February 2009
- Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
- Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
- Location: Temple of Isis
Lots of things. A couple culinary mysteries, a mystery, and fantasy novel at the moment. Then back to The Forest House by Marion Z. Bradley
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}
Finally got round to finishing Cottam's Waiting Room, Madeline! Got waylaid by several other books, including Christian Cameron's latest, The Ill-Made Knight - non-stop action in the Middle Ages (review here).
I thought the Cottam novel quite well done - more complex than it seemed initially and creepy enough that I didn't fancy reading it at night
One complaint, the ends only got tied up for half the people involved in solving a dangerous secret from the past and I would have liked to know what happened to the others. Though perhaps I should assume, seeing there's manipulation of time involved, that everything that happened to them, never in fact happened at all!
I thought the Cottam novel quite well done - more complex than it seemed initially and creepy enough that I didn't fancy reading it at night
One complaint, the ends only got tied up for half the people involved in solving a dangerous secret from the past and I would have liked to know what happened to the others. Though perhaps I should assume, seeing there's manipulation of time involved, that everything that happened to them, never in fact happened at all!
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Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4270
- 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 North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.
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
NF...Queen Victoria's Granddaughters by Christina Croft...I am a sucker for books about QV.
~Susan~
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~Unofficial Royalty~
Royal news updated daily, information and discussion about royalty past and present
http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/
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Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5758
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Warrior's Princess by Barbara Erskine
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
[quote=""annis""]Finally got round to finishing Cottam's Waiting Room, Madeline! Got waylaid by several other books, including Christian Cameron's latest, The Ill-Made Knight - non-stop action in the Middle Ages (review here).
I thought the Cottam novel quite well done - more complex than it seemed initially and creepy enough that I didn't fancy reading it at night One complaint, the ends only got tied up for half the people involved in solving a dangerous secret from the past and I would have liked to know what happened to the others. Though perhaps I should assume, seeing there's manipulation of time involved, that everything that happened to them, never in fact happened at all![/quote]
Sounds a bit confusing! Thanks for the review.
I thought the Cottam novel quite well done - more complex than it seemed initially and creepy enough that I didn't fancy reading it at night
One complaint, the ends only got tied up for half the people involved in solving a dangerous secret from the past and I would have liked to know what happened to the others. Though perhaps I should assume, seeing there's manipulation of time involved, that everything that happened to them, never in fact happened at all![/quote]Sounds a bit confusing! Thanks for the review.
Currently reading: The Warrior's Princess by Barbara Erskine