So Georgette Heyer’s books tend to fit certain themes – one of her favorites is when a noble, slightly older (but still single) gentleman finds a younger lady running away from home, and basically takes it upon himself to keep her safe.     She’s never the object of his affection – there’s always some […]

Here’s another “dashing Georgian gentleman has a young girl trying to escape her not so nice relatives pretty much fall in his lap (figuratively, not literally), where he must then aid her in her adventures” Georgette Heyer story. In this case, it’s Sir Richard Wyndham, second in society only to Beau Brummell, who has just

For something completely different, I turned to a Jane Austen interpretation. This one was meant to fill in the missing pieces of Darcy’s story – so we could see the thought process behind why he would decide to try and win Elizabeth Bennett after she rejected his first proposal. It’s not a bad book.  

Up until now, I’ve read Heyer’s Regency romances, but she wrote some historical novels as well.   (What I didn’t know about this one until I read the forward is that it’s unfinished – she never had the concentrated time to devote to it that she wanted to.) This is the story of John of Bedford,

You know – I think the best lesson to take away from this series is that families are complicated, and life is complicated, and you’ll have to work at both all the time, regardless of when you lived. In the last book, Ross was to be brought to trial for supposedly ring-leading the pirating of