Member: MuseofIre

Hi again, MuseofIre:

I have Master and Commander on my shelves, having bought it after seeing the movie. Of course the book will better, but I really did like the movie.

As for recommendations, I started going through my "Regency" tag to write authors down but realize that the best thing to say is to check out my Regency tag. I, too, love Mary Balogh, Jo Beverley, Laura Kinsale and Judith Ivory. I also really like Loretta Chase, Joan Wolf, and Lisa Kleypas. Having said that, I'm not a fan of all their books - I've only kept on my shelves what I consider re-readable.

And, of course, there's the queen of Regency - Georgette Heyer. Her books are the best of the best for an authentic Regency voice - meticulously researched, authentic in almost every way - motive, language, style. I re-read 3 last week and finally read Cousin Kate, which did not make the favorites list. These Old Shades (which is really Georgian), The Devil's Cub (about the child of the couple in TOS), The Talisman Ring, The Toll-Gate, The Nonesuch, The Quiet Gentleman, Black Sheep, Lady of Quality.... really, so many good ones.

The other authors mix in various amounts of sex, which I admit to liking, but it seems that the more they mix in the more social solecisms creep in because most gentry girls just didn't do those things. But as long as they carry the story and aren't too anachronistic, they're fun.

In mentioning Patrick O'Brian you remind me of the Ramage series by Dudley Pope - nautical fiction during the Napoleonic era. I have the first three, have read the first one.

I'd be interested in The Time of Terror - I just found an available copy on Bookmooch and "Victoria in Portugal" will probably agree to the mooch and send it to me. I love Bookmooch - I see you're a moocher too. I'm off to check your inventory.

See you around.
karenmarie

posted by karenmarie at 6:30 am (EST) on Apr 8, 2010

Hi MuseofIre:

I really enjoyed reading your pithy review of Midnight Fires - we both gave it one star and seem to be in the minority.

It was awful, wasn't it?

karenmarie

posted by karenmarie at 9:35 am (EST) on Apr 6, 2010

Thoroughly enjoyed The Smoke (Jethro Mysteries) by Tony Broadbent. Thank you for the recommendation. Another good read I never would have picked up on my own. Going to get the second book sometime this summer.

posted by OldSarge at 11:39 am (EST) on Jul 16, 2009

I'm glad my Four Freedoms review was useful to you. I had the bewildering feeling, much like when I first read AEgypt (i.e. The Solitudes) in 1988, that few other readers could be getting as much sense out of the book as I was. Some of Crowley's recondite interests seem to track my own pretty well.

posted by paradoxosalpha at 8:52 am (EST) on Apr 14, 2009

Dreaming tree I mentioned before is a compilation of the two Tree of Swords books that you have read. Morgaine is the series of 4 books featuring her (white hair, pale, grey eyes and a massive sword Changeling) and her companion Vayne honourable knight as they travel between worlds and times trying to close the Gates that permit such travel. Ring any bells?

posted by reading_fox at 6:41 am (EST) on Nov 23, 2007

Just passing by - I read your review for Fortress of Ice. Have you read much of Cherryh's other works? She has some more mainstream fantasy in the Dreaming Tree, and a crossover work in the highly aclaimed Morgaine Cycle. A lot of the rest of her books are nominally SF but the science is very limited, focusing on people rather than technology.

Keep reading!
Fox.

posted by reading_fox at 6:31 am (EST) on Nov 14, 2007

you aren't sleeping yet? so do i but here it's 6AM and i really have to go to bed....
thank's for your friendship; yeah!
good night

posted by kanichat at 12:29 am (EST) on Nov 7, 2007