Eustacie has run away to become a governess, rather than marry her thoroughly unromantic cousin Sir Tristram. She falls in with a group of smugglers, including one of her other cousins, Ludovic, rightful heir to their grandfather’s barony, who has unfortunately fallen into a life of crime after being falsely accused of murder, and being […]
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. Set just after Napoleon’s reign has come to an end, this sequel to Sorcery and Cecelia takes up where the last book left off. Cousins Kate and Cecy are now married, and along with their husbands, Thomas and James, are off to Europe for a combined honeymoon. In
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Read for the 2010 Complete Booker Reading Challenge. I think I need to be more mindful of my planned reading for reading challenges. I’m right now up against a challenge to read two more Booker Long List books before the end of the month in order to finish the challenge, so this book found its
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I really meant to read a book in between (even tried, but that’s another story), but I just couldn’t help finishing Pamela Aidan’s Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy. You’ll note I said trilogy, but have only read two books. The middle of the books, Duty and Desire, takes place after Darcy had returned to town from
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I have to admit, I’m a complete sucker for Pride and Prejudice continuations. I know they’re not Jane Austen, but I just enjoy the book so much, I love being able to visit those characters again in a different way. This book is the first of three that deals with Darcy’s side of the story.
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I hadn’t realized, but I actually completed the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge with the last book I read, as I’d included an extra book, just in case. So, I’ve managed to top the Fascinated Level by one. I’ve decided not to go up to the next level (and read 12 books), as the TBR tub
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Read for the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge. Mollie Peer is the second in a series of books set in late 19th century Maine, about the Moosepath League, five men who somehow manage to stumble into grand adventures. Mollie Peer is a reporter for the Portland Argus, relegated to the society column because she’s a woman.
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Read for the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge. I will freely admit to having barely any preconceptions of this book, going into it. I’d seen it mentioned in a couple of book blogs, and was intrigued by the idea of reading of 14th century life in Norway, written by a Norwegian (a Nobel-prize winning Norwegian author,
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Read for the 2010 YA and Historical Fiction Reading Challenges. The Beduin’s Gazelle takes place in the 14th century, in the desert of Northern Africa where the Beduin roamed. It’s the story of cousins Atiyah and Hamila, who were promised to each other at birth. Atiyah has been sent to the city of Fez to
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This book, written in 1913, is billed on the cover as the first ever sequel to Jane Austen’s work. It’s definitely an ambitious story. Characters from all six of her completed novels appear within the pages. The action mainly centers around Mr. and Mrs. Darcy, and their interactions with their various friends as they move
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