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Seasonal Reading
- Margaret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2440
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: I can't answer this in 100 characters. Sorry.
- Favourite HF book: Checkmate, the final novel in the Lymond series
- Preferred HF: Literary novels. Late medieval and Renaissance.
- Location: Catskill, New York, USA
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I'm bad at noticing dates, too. Likely as not, if I did decide to read something to coincide with a holiday, the holiday would have come and gone by the time the book got to the top of my pile.
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I'm a sucker for seasonal films. Hocus Pocus, Sleepy Hollow and The Others are favourites for Halloween. At Christmas it'll have to be the first Home Alone and perhaps Trading Places, and The Snowman of course! But no, I don't tend to read seasonal books - except perhaps for Pratchett's Hogfather, but that was by luck rather than anything deliberate I think.
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: 4321
- 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 like watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation at Christmas time. I think it's hilarious, especially when he cuts into the turkey. I am not alone!! LOL.
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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've received two Christmas themed books as gifts in the past and promptly read them over the holiday:
The first is Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror. It's great satirical stuff! Any Moore fans here - folks with a twisty side that is? He ranks among my Top Ten authors. http://www.amazon.com/Stupidest-Angel-H ... 510&sr=1-1
The other was Cleveland Amory's The Cat Who Came for Christmas, an anecdotal story worth a read by most animal lovers. http://www.amazon.com/Cat-Who-Came-Chri ... 714&sr=1-1
The first is Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror. It's great satirical stuff! Any Moore fans here - folks with a twisty side that is? He ranks among my Top Ten authors. http://www.amazon.com/Stupidest-Angel-H ... 510&sr=1-1
The other was Cleveland Amory's The Cat Who Came for Christmas, an anecdotal story worth a read by most animal lovers. http://www.amazon.com/Cat-Who-Came-Chri ... 714&sr=1-1
We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams ~ Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Ode
- diamondlil
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2642
- Joined: August 2008
One Christmas book I have enjoyed in the past was A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
All things Historical Fiction - Historical Tapestry
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
[quote=""diamondlil""]One Christmas book I have enjoyed in the past was A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg.[/quote]
I keep meaning to get that out of the library. I do enjoy Fannie Flagg's books.
I keep meaning to get that out of the library. I do enjoy Fannie Flagg's books.
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
Anne Perry has a several short Christmas mysteries:
A Christmas Journey
A Christmas Visitor
A Christmas Guest
A Christmas Beginning
A Christmas Journey
A Christmas Visitor
A Christmas Guest
A Christmas Beginning
~Susan~
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Royal news updated daily, information and discussion about royalty past and present
http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/