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Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Sep 21

I’ve just finished reading a book called March by Geraldine Brooks. It is historical fiction but the author has done an immense amount of research into the period she writes about. March is a chaplain and father to the girls in...

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Book Recommendation: When Twilight Breaks

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 29 Mar 21

If you are a fan of Historical fiction, and or romance then I would highly recommend When Twilight Breaks, which takes place in Munich in 1938. Evelyn Brand is a foreign correspondent from America, trying to make her way in a...

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A Week in the Life of Ephesus: A recommendation

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 8 Jul 20

A Week in the Life of Ephesus is a well researched historical novel, written by David A DeSilva. Be ready to be taken to the early years of Christianity in Ephesus, a Christian Landowner must decide whether he can obey God,...

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Finished Reading Bellewether

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 21 Jun 20

I have been utterly destroyed by this book. I actually wrote a review saying much the same. I do not want to say a lot about the book itself in case someone here wants to read it. However, I will say that the author does an...

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I finished The Wolf Of Wessex in two days

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 28 Jan 20

Yesterday I posted that I had started this book by Matthew Harffy. It is a book that I came across on amazon after using the filters to pick historical fiction and books under the Kindle Unlimited Program. It is not my...

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I like when books talk about homosexuality

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 25 Jan 20

Let me clarify, I like historical fiction books that center around the struggles a man or woman may have had in the past. The book I am reading now, Towards The Midnight Sun by Eoin Dempsey has a man who is gay. The...

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All the Flowers in Paris

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 15 Dec 19

There are some books that stand out far more than others, and the best books make you feel as if you are in your characters life, All the Flowers in Paris is one such novel. Two women, more than a generation apart stories come...

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My Next Read has Bourbon in the title

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 26 Nov 19

My Libby (By overdrive) app is being a pain. I could search the catalog but once I clicked on a title to read the synopsis, I was stuck. It wouldn't go back to the previous page. So instead I came online to find a book to read and...

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A Book Recommendation : A Distance to Grand

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 24 Nov 19

For a of you who like historical romances, I’d like to tell you a little about A Distance to Grand, it is set in The Grand Canyon in 1871 where Meg Pero has gone as a photographer fulfilling a contract her Dad had signed before he...

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Book Review: The Long Flight Home by Alan Hlad

patgalca @patgalca (18481) • Orangeville, Ontario 15 Jul 19

This book is new and very popular among book worms around the world. The publisher distributed a ton of these for free. Synopsis: [i][/i]It is September 1940 - a year into the war - and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears...

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I deleted this discussion yesterday

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 4 Mar 19

I deleted it last night but I am reposting it today. Well, I am reposting it but differently. Last night I asked for suggestion on historical fiction. I deleted it because I did not think I'd get a lot of serious responses. I am...

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World of Flowers, Bees, Orchards, Grapes, War, and Missing Parents

Barbara Radisavlejvic @bagarad (14283) • Paso Robles, California 22 Jul 18

I've been on another reading binge -- three great novels in four days. After reading a review by a friend I had to read The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. It's the story of Vistoria who grew up in the foster...

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Review: _The Funeral Bride:_ pages and pages of babble and inaccuracy

Rebecca Huston @Telynor (1763) • United States 4 Jul 18

I love history. I'm pretty much a nerd about it, and I find some stories to be compelling and fascinating. One of those stories is that of the Romanovs, the doomed Imperial family of Russia, and their tragic march to martyrdom...

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Hey, I read that #3

April @thislittlepennyearns (68246) • Defuniak Springs, Florida 17 Jun 18

"The Aviator's Wife" by Melanie Benjamin is another novel that I picked up at work. It follows the story of Ann Morrow, a shy college student who wants to become a writer. When during her senior year she visits her family and...

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Book Review: Dan Simmons' _The Terror:_ a mystery-adventure story with a dash of horror"

Rebecca Huston @Telynor (1763) • United States 26 Mar 18

Ever since the 1500's, England has strived to find a way to the Pacific Ocean that didn't involve having to travel through Spanish or Portuguese dominions -- and considering that they were at war with either of these countries...

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Review: _Versailles:_ wandering, fluffy musing on a doomed queen

Rebecca Huston @Telynor (1763) • United States 20 Sep 16

Tonight's theme continues merrily along... There seems to be an awful lot of ink spilled lately on the last queen of France, the Austrian born Marie Antoinette. Take Ms. Frasier's excellent biography on the subject, told with...

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Review: Eiji Yoshiwara's _Taiko:_ a broad tale of epic lives in Feudal Japan

Rebecca Huston @Telynor (1763) • United States 20 May 16

Mention a historically themed book to me, and it can catch my attention right away. Stir in plenty of actual history, and I'm hooked. Ever since wading through Clavell's _Shogun,_ I've been interested in Japan, and discovering a...

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Review: _Hanging Mary:_ A look at Lincoln's assassination by another angle

Rebecca Huston @Telynor (1763) • United States 21 Apr 16

I'm still rather tenuous about my explorations into American history, fictional or otherwise. But the author of this one, Susan Higginbotham, is a favourite of mine, and I decided to take the leap and read her book. And I am...

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Review: The hidden lives of women in _Snow Flower and the Secret Fan_

Rebecca Huston @Telynor (1763) • United States 4 Apr 16

In a province far from the circles of power, two little girls are born. Snow Flower and Lily are destined to a special fate, being born on the same day, at the same hour, and even down to having the same size feet. When Lily, the...

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Review: Elizabeth Chadwick's _Lady of the English:_ two queens, two different destinies.

Rebecca Huston @Telynor (1763) • United States 12 Mar 16

One of the best authors that I have discovered in the area of historical fiction set in the medieval period is Elizabeth Chadwick. Every year I look forward to late spring, when it is fairly certain that she is going to be...

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