Retrospective of Historical Fiction
- Description
- Guiding my reading in historical fiction.
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- 4 Members
- sturlington, peterveen, kara.shamy, dianeham
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- 4 Members
- KimarieBee, sturlington, kara.shamy, dianeham
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18,163 members
449 reviews
3.9
Score 3
Added 2014-09-14, 03:43 PM
- 3 Members
- KimarieBee, sturlington, ahef1963
- Explanations
- ahef1963: A weird tale, verging on if not actually horror, but certainly worth reading.
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- 3 Members
- sturlington, peterveen, kara.shamy
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11,569 members
174 reviews
3.9
Score 3
Added 2014-10-13, 01:04 PM
- 3 Members
- KimarieBee, sturlington, peterveen
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- 4 Members
- hipdeep, peterveen, kara.shamy, dianeham,sturlington
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5,922 members
316 reviews
4.1
Score 3
Added 2014-09-14, 03:42 PM
- 3 Members
- sturlington, peterveen, dianeham
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- 3 Members
- sturlington, ahef1963, dianeham
- Explanations
- ahef1963: One of the best. Partially epistolary, so vivid in detail.
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- 3 Members
- sturlington, peterveen, kara.shamy
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- 4 Members
- KimarieBee, peterveen, kara.shamy, dianeham,sturlington
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by Ellis Peters
3,942 members
104 reviews
3.8
Score 3
Added 2014-10-09, 10:25 AM
- 3 Members
- sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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- 3 Members
- KimarieBee, sturlington, peterveen
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- 3 Members
- sturlington, kara.shamy, dianeham
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36,754 members
456 reviews
3.9
Score 2
Added 2014-09-14, 03:41 PM
- 3 Members
- KimarieBee, peterveen, ahef1963,sturlington
- Explanations
- ahef1963: a) The first Dickens I ever read, and I was swept away by the story. b) Bring Kleenex.
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- 3 Members
- sturlington, peterveen, ahef1963,dianeham
- Explanations
- ahef1963: Excellent.
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- 4 Members
- hipdeep, peterveen, kara.shamy, dianeham,sturlington ,ahef1963
- Explanations
- ahef1963 : Way too many characters to remember. I kept losing track of who was who.
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- 3 Members
- peterveen, ahef1963, kara.shamy,sturlington
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- 3 Members
- peterveen, ahef1963, dianeham,sturlington
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- 3 Members
- peterveen, ahef1963, dianeham,sturlington
- Explanations
- ahef1963: I have heard it described as the best crime novel ever. It's really good.
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- 2 Members
- sturlington, dianeham
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- 2 Members
- sturlington, peterveen
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- 2 Members
- ahef1963, kara.shamy,sturlington
- Explanations
- sturlington : abandonedahef1963: If I had a top ten favourite books list, this one would be on it. History, vampires, mystery, beautiful settings; it's grand.
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- Member
- sturlington
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- 2 Members
- peterveen, kara.shamy,sturlington
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by Michel Faber
6,750 members
197 reviews
3.9
Score 1
Added 2014-10-13, 12:35 PM
- 2 Members
- peterveen, kara.shamy,sturlington
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- 2 Members
- peterveen, kara.shamy,sturlington
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- 2 Members
- peterveen, ahef1963,sturlington
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- Member
- sturlington
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- Member
- sturlington
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36,663 members
373 reviews
½ 3.4
Score 0
Added 2014-09-14, 03:15 PM
- Member
- ahef1963,sturlington
- Explanations
- ahef1963: A real favourite. As vibrant a tale today as it was when it was written.
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- 2 Members
- peterveen, kara.shamy,sturlington ,ahef1963
- Explanations
- sturlington : Slavery, Americaahef1963 : I managed to finish it, but only with the help of an online source that steered me through what she was talking about. Unnecessarily dense.
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17,276 members
319 reviews
3.8
Score 0
Added 2014-09-14, 03:26 PM
- Member
- ahef1963,sturlington
- Explanations
- ahef1963: Lovely book.
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- Member
- ahef1963,sturlington
- Explanations
- ahef1963: Another great book. Gives so much power to the women who populate the Old Testament.
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- Member
- kara.shamy,sturlington
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- Member
- kara.shamy,sturlington
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- Member
- kara.shamy,sturlington
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- Member
- ahef1963,sturlington
- Explanations
- sturlington : Sadly, it is not available at my library.ahef1963: I love this one so much that one of my children is named for a character in this book. It is chick flick meets historical fiction and it is a great story.
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- Member
- kara.shamy,sturlington
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- Member
- kara.shamy,sturlington
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- Member
- kara.shamy,sturlington
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- Member
- kara.shamy,sturlington
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15,593 members
380 reviews
3.9
Score -1
Added 2014-09-14, 02:50 PM
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5,889 members
257 reviews
½ 3.6
Score -1
Added 2014-09-14, 10:58 AM
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- Member
- peterveen,sturlington ,ahef1963
- Explanations
- ahef1963 : Reading one of the books I can imagine, but it's pretty dry getting through all four.
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by Jean M. Auel
12,783 members
287 reviews
3.9
Score -2
Added 2014-09-14, 09:44 AM
- Explanations
- ahef1963 : Honestly, it's great for light reading, but it's not well-written.
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- Explanations
- ahef1963 : This is probably just me, but as I don't know port from starboard, I felt dreadfully lost in a book that is constantly needing the reader to know where the characters are on the ship!