I just finished Season Of Storms which had flashbacks to the 1920's.

I'm in 1998 about 2 months after the "event" in Dies The Fire which I am rereading. After that, I think I'll go On the Beach which I believe is set in the 50's (and unbelievably I've never read).

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I recently and gratefully left Stalinist Russia of the early '50's with Child 44 - what an atmospheric read; you will never take your American or European freedoms for granted again.

Now I am in 1944 Holland with two Dutch Resistance fighters trained in England and re-dropped into Holland to organize the resistance after D-Day and the failure of Operation Market Garden in Tamar. Everybody is hungry and the Nazi's are making the best use of the last of their power and betrayal seems likely.

I am in Crete with Zorba the Greek.

I am jumping back and forth in time from 1281 to 1882, following about four different stories (that will eventually link together I assume) in Autumn Bridge by Takashi Matsuoka. This is an amazing book, beautifully written and every bit as absorbing as the first book Cloud of Sparrows.

1: That's a good one! Hope you're enjoying it.

I am in 1348 in Company of Liars by Karen Maitland. I like it so far, except that Maitland does what I hate the most, she keeps saying "but how wrong he would turn out to be", "this would prove fatal". I don't want to know! Let me find out myself. Dan Brown does the same thing, and it is so annoying!

Currently in 1139 France with Death Comes As Epiphany.

I'm in 1898 in Diane Smith's Letters From Yellowstone.

I'm in 1762 in False Colors.

I'am in Wisconsin 1907 with A Reliable Wife

I am in 1860's with Vincent Van Gogh Lust for Life

I am reading A Choice of Destinies by Melissa Scott. It is about Alexander the Great and if he went west to Rome instead of east to India. I think it also has fantasy elements. I saw it on LT and got a used copy (its oop).

I'm reading Standard of Honor the middle book in the Templar Trilogy by Jack Whyte. It starts in 1187 at the Horns of Hattin.

Although I've had the book since the day it was released in hardcover, I haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

Now, the third book Order in Chaos is due out at the beginning of next month, so I figured I'd better get this one read.

I finished A Choice of Destinies by Melissa Scott. It was historical fiction, really alternate history with a touch of fantasy (Greek gods) and SF (Alexandria in space).

It was about Alexander the Great, and what might have happened if he went west to Rome instead of east into India. He lived longer, was able to consolidate his realms allowing the empire to continue into the future. With no dark ages and religion held in check they developed faster scientifically. There were interludes from their future in between chapters of Alex in his own time dealing with the west.

I liked most of ideas and the characterizations. I find Scott's writing difficult and this was an earlier book (1986). The interludes were interesting, but made the story choppy. Still it was enjoyable and worthwhile.

She did have some differences with history before Alex had to make the choice to return to the west, and there was no explanation: Thebes was not destroyed, he had a 10 year old son. Would have liked that explained.

I am now reading Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura. It is translated from the Japanese and is set in medieval Japan. A small impoverished village barely surviving on the coast has to deal with a shipwreck that may destroy the village.

It's the winter of 1098 along the Welsh border. I am reading The Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick and really enjoying it.

I finished Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura. It was set in an isolated fishing village on the coast of Japan in medieval times. The villagers fished and farmed and harvested from the forest, but they often starved. To prevent starvation they had to sell themselves or their children into indentured servitude.

They also had a secret plan that didn't always work, but when it did it provided years worth of food. The plan was quite dangerous, because it was illegal, not to mention bad karma. The POV of the story is a young boy assuming leadership of his family after his father had sold himself into servitude. The boy is learning the ways of the village. Very simply told, but very well done.

I'm reading The Historian again, since nothing else I've tried to read this summer has captured my interest. So I'm currently jumping back and forth between Cold War Europe, Post-WWII Boston, Pre-WWII England/Europe and Medieval Europe, with bit of modern and Medieval Turkey thrown in. I'm quite enjoying it, again... though the critter playing in the bushes outside my window this afternoon gave me a fright!

I've been zipping through Tears of Pearl, the fourth Lady Emily book--a mostly-anachronistic mess of a mystery. Don't know what I'll read next.

I just finished Ariana Franklin's wonderful Grave Goods in the twelfth century and am now hovering around the turn of the 18th into the 19th century with Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander. It's a challenge, but one I think I'm enjoying!

Brazil, 1928. I'm reading The Seamstress by Frances DePontes Peebles.

I'm in 1570 in Sacred Hearts.

I've moved back in time to 1173 England, with Shields of Pride.

I just finished The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams, which was really interesting — though not historical fiction! Unless you count 1999 as being history...

I've just started The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant set in late 15th/early 16th century Florence, Italy. The tense of the narration flops around a bit, but I guess I can handle that.

I'm hanging around first century Palestine with Joshua bar Joseph and his best friend Biff in Lamb.

Now in late 14th and early 15th century France with the royal family in In a Dark Wood Wandering, by Hella Haasse.

I am in Nigeria, not sure of the time period yet, perhaps pre-colonial and colonial period (there are 2 parts to the book) with Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.

ETA:

There are 3 parts to the book, and it is definitely a before and during the colonial period.

Part 1 is before white men arrive, part 2 missionaries have arrived (with hints of something called government), and I am just starting part 3.

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I'm in the early 1300's, but I'm still with Jack Whyte and his Knights Templar. I'm reading Order in Chaos now, in which he's focused on the fall of the Knights Templar. Given how much I enjoyed Standard of Honor, I'm really expecting to like this one.

I was just in 1867 Utah with Effigy by Alissa York. Wonderful novel.

June 6, 1944 at Omaha Beach on the coast of France in Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara.

I am just starting The Blood of Flowers set in 17th century Iran. Lots of people seemed to like it, so I hope I do too. It was on my wishlist forever at BookMooch. I'm glad I finally snagged a copy!

#24 - I've just started The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant set in late 15th/early 16th century Florence, Italy. The tense of the narration flops around a bit, but I guess I can handle that.

I couldn't handle it. That drove me bananas! And I was also bothered how anachronistic the protagonist was. I didn't even pass the book on to charity when I finished it--it went straight into the recycling bin.

I am almost done with Pillars of the Earth - enjoying the 1100's. I hadnt' read it before and am enjoying it very much!

1770s/80s England, France and American with The Flood-Tide, by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (toughstones wouldn't poin towards the right title).

14th century in the second Margaret of Ashbury book In Pursuit of the Green Lion by Judith Merkle Riley.

I have spent the past 24 hours in the early 1300's England with Edward II, Queen Isabella and their court - right now I am in October 1325 and treason is a foot once again in The Traitor's Wife by Susan Higginbotham - what an enjoyable historical romp!

I'm in the early 19th century with Emma by Jane Austen

I am in late 16th/early 17th century Iran (although I'm pretty sure it was called Persia back then) with The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani. Good read so far!

Just thought I'd mention that Sharon Kay Penman is hosting an Author's Chat on LT at http://www.librarything.com/topic/70641, in case you'd like to join in the fun. She's written some really thoughtful responses to the posts so far.

1130s England with No Dark Place, but soon to be in the 14th century with The White Queen.

I'm in Istanbul in 1836 in Jason Goodwin's The Janissary Tree.

Still in late 16th/early 17th century, but in France this time with Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas.

>41 SaraHope, I loved both of Goodwin's books. I am waiting for the newest one to go into paper. I hope you enjoy.

I recently left Renaissance Venice In the Company of the Courtesan.

Now I'm in Central Asia in the early part of the 19th century with The Great Game, which is actually nonfiction, but is certainly thrilling enough for fiction!

>43 FicusFan, I'm only about 100 pages in but enjoying the book immensely so far. It's nice to find a book centered in a different historical setting than most historical novels I read (which are mostly set in England or America).

The Congo in 1960 The Poisonwood Bible.

Post World War I London in The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

I'm in the civil war in Sri Lanka, and also in London during the terrorist Tube bombings with Roma Tearne in Brixton Beach.

1599 Ottoman Empire with The Aviary Gate (but also in the present day).

I just started And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander. It is an historical mystery set in Victorian England. Book 1 in the Lady Emily Ashton series. I found out about the books from LT (ER program).

I've been in the year 1811, lately. On book two of the Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries by C.S. Harris.

I finished And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander. It was the first of the Lady Emily Ashton series set in Victorian London. I enjoyed it very much. Lady Emily was recently married when her husband Philip died on a safari in Africa.

She didn't know him well, and while sad is not heartbroken at his death. He leaves her with money, social position and the freedom to live her own life. She mainly married to escape her harpy of a mother.

In exploring her freedom, she finds out more about Philip from his friends and journals and finds he was in love with her, and a decent interesting man. She also takes up his interest in ancient Greek culture. While doing so she finds what seems to be evidence that he might have been involved in stolen antiquities.

The mystery comes in trying to decide who is doing the stealing, and commissioning the copies that are used to replace the originals. The story of Emily is interspersed with journal entries of Philip from just before their marriage, until the day before his death.

The characters are well done, and the setting is interesting. There is a bit of a romance in the story, with hints that it will be part of future stories.

Only one big mistake that I can see: Philip writes in his journal while in Africa of the camp being beset with Howler Monkeys. They are new world monkeys, and not in Africa.

Have the next 2 in the series and will read them.

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May 31, 1944 occupied Paris in Jackdaws by Ken Follett.

Summer 1348, before the plague is about to hit, in A Plague on Both Your Houses.

Atlanta, GA during a Sabbat uprising against the Camarilla kindred, in Clan Novel: Tzimisce by Eric Griffin

Just finished To The Far Blue Mountains by Louis L'Amour. This is the second volume in the Sackett Saga. This one finds the family putting roots down in the New World, lots of adventure and fighting. I wouldn't call it a great read, but a nice escape to a different time and place.

Just finished Nefertiti by, Michelle Moran Wonderfully written couldn't put it down.Will be looking for more books by her!

I'm in 1789 now in The Lieutenant.

Niagara Falls, 1915 the Day the Falls Stood Still

I'm in late Victorian London, investiating a murder with 'Thomas Pitt', in Anne Perry's "Buckingham Palace Gardens" (#23 Thomas/Charlotte Pitt).

#52 FicusFan
Since you like Victorian mysteries, you might enjoy Anne Perry's two series, if you haven't discovered them already. Her Thomas/Charlotte Pitt series is set in the late Victorian era, while her William Monk series takes place in early Victorian times.

#60 Catgwinn - I love Anne Perry's mysteries!

Right now I am in 1903 in Frank, Alberta, dazed at the catastrophe that has occurred around me in The Outlander.

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It is 1813 and I am in the English countryside with The Riddle of Alabaster Royal by Patricia Veryan. A very light historical romance.

I'm in the Depression, for the moment, in Homer and Langley.

Still in the Regency. Reading Indiscretion by Jude Morgan.

Victorian London with artists and thieves in Ivy by YA author Julie Hearn.

#61/ lkernagh, I really liked The Outlander.

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I am in 1875 Utah & present day Utah.
Reading The 19th Wife by, David Ebershoff

I've moved from Victorian London to the final days of WWI (in England & the front in France)
in "We Shall Not Sleep..." the 5th & final book in Anne Perry's WWI series.

I'm reading Blood Meridian and The War of the End of the World.

I've just left London in the late 18th century after reading Love and Madness: The Murder of Martha Ray Mistress of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich by Martin Levy. For what it's worth, I did post a review. Now I'm back again in the late 18th century but in America. I'm reading Unwise Passions by Alan Pell Crawford. It's too soon to tell how this will turn out. Ah, historical non-fiction!

Uh, I guess now would be a good time to mention that these are non-fiction....

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In Wanting I keep jumping from Charles Dickens and his play in Victorian London to John & Lady Jane Franklin and their desires in Van Diemen's Land.

Just finished The Unbelievers by Alastair Sim - Scotland in 1865.

I am in 1630 in Salem, Massachusetts in The Hearth and Eagle by Anya Seton. I just started it and the first chapter was in the 1800s, so I think the book might cover several generations because the second chapter is in 1630.

It's 406 AD and I am with the Roman Legions as they are are trying to hold out on the Rhine frontier. Reading Eagle In the Snow by Wallace Breen, and really enjoying it.

Guernica in 1937, just before the bombing.

It's the first century BC, and I'm Cleopatra's Daughter, held captive in Rome.

Lucky, lucky you #75.

I'm in ancient Egypt, reading from the same author. Actually, I'm waiting for Nefertari to prove herself not The Heretic Queen everyone thinks she's going to be.

I can't wait for Cleopatra's Daughter though.

I am now in England in 1826 with illegal anatomists and body snatchers in The Resurrectionist by James Bradley.

I'm sometime in post-Civil War Cincinnati with Toni Morrison in Beloved.

Just finished The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It is set in the Middle ages in England. My dad gave it to me for my birthday. It 1088 pages long. I managed to finish it in 4 days. That's fast, even for me!

I'm in Olympia, AD 76, with the incorrigble Marcus Didius Falco in See Delphi and Die.

I'm in the late 12th century with William Marshal, who is The Greatest Knight.

I'm in 1893 Montana with Old Red and Big Red in Holmes on the Range, by Steve Hockensmith

1999 and 1940s in Norway with THE REDBREAST by Jo Nesbo (2004) I've learned some interesting history about the appeal of the Nazi movement in Norway.

In 1999-2000 five Norwegians, who fought on the Eastern Front with the Nazis in WWII, want revenge for being tried for treason after the war.

The Redbreast is well written, very exciting, and has humor, as well. Nesbo is able to make us understand some of the troubling aspects of Nazism in Norway, and does a great job of weaving together past and present. His hero, Harry Hole, is very real and an interesting character. An entertaining but also illuminating crime book from a very talented author.

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I finished The Resurrectionist by James Bradley. I liked it a lot, though the ending was odd. It was very sparely written, and didn't have a lot of back story. The book expected you to understand Victorian conventions, which could be a problem. It also had a Victorian distance to the narrative. Still the writing was good.

The story was about Body Snatchers who supplied anatomists with corpses for medical dissection. The whole process was illegal. The POV was an apprentice to a famous anatomist, but he makes bad decisions, falls in with the wrong people and is dismissed. He falls a long way and is lucky to be alive. Eventually he is transported to Australia for other crimes.

I don't know if this qualifies as true Historical Fiction, but it's during the Napoleonic War and I am flying around on the back of a dragon in His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. I was doubtful of this book that my daughter insisted I read, but so far I am loving it!

It could be HF DQ50, but is also Fantasy and Historical Fantasy. :)

I am in Uppsala Sweden in 2003 with The Cruel Stars of the Night by Kjell Eriksson

I am just leaving England cca 1553 as I finished Elizabeth, Captive Princess which I thoroughly enjoyed. I had previously read Young Bess which was also by Margaret Irwin . Those two cover the life of Elizabeth I to her 20th year. I hope that I can eventually get my hands on the third of the series Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain. I think that I shall see if anyonbe wants to pass it on at BookCrossing.com.

I'm alternating between counter-reformation Flanders (where I'm losing characters as they are burnt at the stake) and mid-20th century rural Alberta in Rudy Wiebe's Sweeter Than All the World.

In Confinement, in 1849 and the 1960s/70s.

Right now I am alternating between 1844 Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) and 1854 London, England in Richard Flanagan's Wanting.

Tried reading Figures in Silk by Vanora Bennett recommended by a friend, but just wasn't in the mood for it. Picked up Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield instead. Pretty darn good so far.

I'm in the prehistory, in the time period where both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens lived, with The Inheritors by William Golding.

I am bouncing around a bit right now, at times in am in London and Paris in 1889 with Lady Emily Ashton in And Only To Deceive by Tasha Alexander. She is trying to learn all she can about her late husband, who died before she really got a chance to know him. A mystery is brewing.

I am also in Shanghai in 1917, travelling with Count Karlov and his son as they escape the Bolsheviks in Russia, only to find more turmoil and intrigue in China with Shanghai Station by Bartle Bull.

Both these books are extremely entertaining and I am having a hard time putting either one of them down!

DeltaQueen - I just recently read And Only to Deceive and really enjoyed it!

I was in quaint Bishop's Lacey, England in the summer of 1950 with young chemist and sleuth extraordinaire Flavia de Luce in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, but have now shifted continents and time periods to 1981 Houston, Texas with, low and behold, yet another murder investigation, this time in Black Water Rising by Attica Locke.

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Shanghai Station sounds very interesting. Thanks DeltaQueen50!!

Ancient Egypt with Cleopatra's Daughter, which arrived in the mail this morning.

Loving it so far.

1355 London with The King's Mistress. (LOL: when I went to get the touchstones, the first title that popped up was The Future King's Pregnant Mistress).

I am in Russia and Poland in the early 20th century in A Daughter of the Nobility by Natasha Borovsky. Meh...having a little trouble getting into it, even after more than 100 pages. I think I might like Shanghai Station better.

I'm in London 1763 The Brothers Boswell by, Phillip Baruth. Just started it,sounds really interesting.

1661 France or thereabouts...2/3 of the way through the 1st part of the third Musketeer saga, The Vicomte de Bragelonne.

I just finished Shanghai Station by Bartle Bull and I really loved it. This adventure continues in China Star so I will definitely be on the look-out for that book.

I am about to go to ancient Egypt in Hand of Isis by Jo Graham, been looking forward to this one for awhile since I loved her first book Black Ships.

I was in Edwardian England with The House at Riverton by Kate Morton. I just loved it and practically read it in one sitting.

I am reading The Shelters of Stone by Jean Auel.

I recently finished Night Soldiers by Alan Furst.

Far exceeded my expectations, and those were high based on its reputation.

I enjoyed my travels with the NKVD defector Stoianev from pre-war Bulgaria, to Soviet era Moscow, Civil War Spain, France, with fascinating interludes in Palestine, the United States and goodness knows where else.

What a wonderful book.

I am in 1916 Mexico with an aging cavalryman and an expedition of inexperienced horse soldiers on patrol for the elusive Pancho Villa in Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead. This is my first Olmstead novel and so far I am really enjoying it.

I've been in Scotland in 1314, about to fight the Battle of Bannockburn (Robert Bruce against King Edward II) in a new book called Blue Bells of Scotland by Laura Vosika.

Because it's a story of two men switching places in time, I'm also in present day Scotland, a lot of fun to read about after having been there.

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>FicusFan - You may want to check out The Italian Boy by Sarah Wise, an extremely informative nonfiction book about early 19th century body snatching in London.

> 109 Laruebk, Thanks. I will look into it.

I am in England enjoying the last year of peace before World War I with In Distant Fields by Charlotte Bingham. To quote the cover " a novel of love, loss, friendship and war".

I'm in the fourteenth century I believe, somewhere in northern Italy, The Name of the Rose is just starting...

I'm in the 1800's, in a strict religious community in America.

I'm in Victorian England (1875), at the beginning of The Crimson Petal and the White and enjoying it. From the page count -- I'll be here awhile!

Late 19th and early 20th century England With The Children's Book. My, but AS Byatt does bite off a lot in this book!

I've just entered the prehistorical/Ice Age world of "The Clan of the Cave Bear" by Jean Auel.

I'm in the Napoleonic era in The Temptation of the Night Jasmine.

ddelmoni - I LOVED The Crimson Petal and the White when I read it 4 years ago..... might be time for a re-read.

Right now I am in 1666 England in an isolated mountain village that has been struck by the plague in Geraldine Brooks' Year of Wonders.

I also liked The Crimson Petal and the White, and thought Year of Wonders was an exceptional stand-out.

Reading non-fiction: The Lady Queen, by Nancy Goldstone (can't find the touchstone for it. Really fascinating book about the fourteenth-century Joanna of Sicily, who was accused of murdering her husband (or at least implicated).

In 1346/47 Avignon, reading the Dutch translation De schone van Avignon, a historical novel by Marianne Calmann, about all kinds of residents and the relations between them, in this expanding and busy papal city of big contrasts (and stench, as it seems), with the Black Death approaching.
Avignon was situated on the border of the Comtat Venaissin, a long time papal possession in the northern Provence which was the only region in France where Jews could live more or less protected.
Marianne Calmann also wrote a historical study, The Carriere of Carpentras, about the largest community of Jews to live openly in France from 1300-1789 (carrière = ghetto).

> 120 Kasthu,
It was the Lady Queen, Joanna, who after fleeing to pope Clement VI, sold Avignon to him in 1348. "Having declared her to be innocent of her former husband's murder, he proceeded to pay her the sum of 80.000 gold florins - in return for which he was enabled to take possession of the city which he had already done so much to make glorious." (source: Edwin Mullins, Avignon of the Popes, p. 135). Very interesting lady, I'm going to read that book!

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I enjoyed the Crimson Petal & the White, now I am in the fourteenth century with World Without End by Ken Follett.

121: It's an enjoyable book! Very informative and intriguing. I now think that Joanna was one of the most fascinating women of medieval Europe.

I am dressed in the height of fashion and ready to go to the coming-out ball in Georgette Heyer's delightful regency romance, Frederica.

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I am in India in 1653 with The Temple Dancer. I'm enjoying it so far.

#125 - dkhiggin - I read The Temple Dancer last year and I loved it. I also read the sequel Tiger Claws which was good but for me, not as good as the first one.

I'm in 1777 North Caroline, in An Echo in the Bone.

#126 - DeltaQueen50 - I have Tiger Claws on my BookMooch wishlist. Hopefully, someone will list it soon!

I know so little about India's history -- I am really enjoying learning something about it. I work with several people from India, so I felt like I should know a little more...

The mid 60's in East berlin.
Man without a Face Markus Wolf

I'm in 1865 Maryland in Jarrettsville.

16th century England with Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel.

17th Century Spain in The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet by Arturo Perez-Reverte. The latest entry in the Alatriste series, I liked this one more than the previous one as this one quite a fair bit of plot and character development this time around.

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#132 Hi, beniowa ~ Do I need to read the earlier novels in the series first in order to enjoy The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet?

1777 on a ship from the America's heading for Bonny Scotland with Jamie & Claire and of course Young Ian!
An Echo in the Bone by, Diana Gabaldon

Slightly later than # 134: in 1780s and '90s England and France in The Tangled Thread.

I am in Sitka in 1852 watching as four indentured men get ready to steal away from the Russian colony in a bid for freedom in The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig. Good book based on an actual event.

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Currently in 6th century Britain, re-reading The Ash Spear by G. R. Grove. (That series just keeps getting better.)

Last week I was in early 20th century Ireland, reading Morgan LLywelyn's 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion. Not an era I usually hang out in, but quite good.

Late Victorian England with The Nebuly Coat.

I'm in 1937, with Alice Princess Andrew of Greece, somewhere in Switzerland, while she attempts to regain her sanity. (!!)

I always thought the Duke of Edinburgh was a bit strange.......hmmmm.......

I'm currently in 1893 Africa, rereading Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley. Lots of adventure!

Slightly later, in 1910, with Consolation, by James Wilson.

I'm in early 20th century with Agatha Christie in An Autobiography

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I'm in 12th century England in The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. I'm enjoying it!

1120s Sicily in The Garden of Persephone.

I was in the 1860's West Texas with Alan Le May's The Searchers, a fantastic book. Now it's a few years later in 1878 and I am in Durban, South Africa with Zulu Hart by Saul David about to experience Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift.

I am about to go trekking through the Burmese jungle in 1944 with a quick-strike division of the British Army and a 14 year old former blacksmith's apprentice in The King's Rifle by Biyi Bandele.

Pre-Roman Britain with Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle.

#147- I read the first in that tetralogy some years ago. I have read three of the four, but haven't found the fourth to read yet. Also not sure if I completely agree with Manda Scott's use of dreaming in historical Britain. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it, when you are further along in the series!

I am not too far in the past, reading Potiki, which I think takes place in 1980s NZ.

I am in the 30's in the Great Depression and this book is depressing!
The heart is a Lonely Hunter by, Carson McCullers

Revisiting Niagara Falls in an earlier era (1915) with The Day The Falls Stood Still. I was inspired to pick up the book because I just visited the place last month.

I love the use of historical photos at the beginnings of the chapters. That and the weaving of actual historical events into the story. I just finished reading of the rescue of the men on the grounded scow. Said scow is still visible in the river today.

I am in 1907 with both books I am reading. Both stories are about young girls making their own way in their lives, but both are very different.

In Concubine of Shanghai a young girl is sold into prostitution and must make her way by her beauty and wits.

In Journey To the River Sea a young girl has inheirited wealth, but is sent to an Amazon Rubber Plantation to find relatives to raise her.

I am in Madrid, Spain circa 17th century with Captain Alatriste from Arturo Pérez-Reverte's The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet (Touchstone doesn't work).

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I'm in late 19th century France, reading Cezanne's Quarry. Not far into it yet, but it's good so far!

In London and New York, around 1900 (The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly).

I'm moving rapidly from 1705 to the present in The Book of Fathers.

I'm committing The Fraud in mid-18th century England, by pretending to be an Italian painter.

Kasthu,

I've been eyeing The Fraud for a while now - how are you liking it?

I'm in England in 1866-1889 in John Harwood's The Seance, which I'm enjoying very much so far--I love a good Victorian-set gothic novel.

157: I really like it. The run-on sentences and Capital Letters are a bit much, but the story is excellent.

I am in Florence Italy in the 1400's in The Birth of Venus by, Sarah Dunant

It is the early 1770's and I am helping in the search for a bastard son in the American colonies as they are on the brink of revolution in The Bastard Boy by James Wilson.

Just started Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund and am finding it captivating. The French Revolution looms....

I am in England at the castle of Kennilworth in the 1200's with Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman!

In pre-revolutionary America with Jamie and Claire Fraiser. In other words, I'm reading Diana Gabaldon's The Fiery Cross.

Bastard Boy turned out not to be my cup of tea.

Now it is 1928 and I have just joined the 'fishing fleet' with three young women. With the odds at better than 3 to 1, India was the place for husband hunting. I'm reading East of the Sun by Julia Gregson and this novel I am sure will be my cup of tea.

In Lahore with "Flashman and the Mountain of Light" by George McDonald Fraser and I am still wondering if they will cross the Sutlej or not after 150 pages...

I'm in 1950's Buenos Aires currently, but, previously, 1930's Montevideo. I'm reading The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis.

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I'm in 1930s and '40s Mexico with The Lacuna.

1520s with Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.

1660s New Amsterdam/ New York in New York: The Novel, by Edward Rutherfurd.

I've left the pre-historical time of "The Clan of the Cave Bear", I'm now in 15th century Florence, Italy, exploring the time of the Medici family & Botticelli, in "The Birth of Venus".

All over ancient and contemporary China with Once on a Moonless Night. Not typical historical fiction but absolutely fascinating.

19th century in Thornfield hall with Jane Eyre. But I guess that is not historical fiction ;)

The early 1200's at the start of the Robin Hood legends (at least that's my guess) in The Lady Of The Forest by Jennifer Roberson.

I'm in 17th century France, during the reign of King Louis XIII, with The Three Musketeers

I was in England in 1822 in "This Wicked Gift," Courtney Milan's story in Heart of Christmas this morning. I highly recommend it as a place to be.

I'm in 1888 Yorkshire in Silent on the Moor.

In 1664s Cambridge and 1713s Boston in Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson, great reading!

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1928 China with The Russian Concubine.

It is 1845 and I am in a small Afghani village trying to escape a woman's life of hardship and servitude in The Moonlit Cage by Linda Holeman.

In 1907 Winona, Minnesota with A Flickering Light by Jane Kirkpatrick

#180/ DeltaQueen, I read that one in one sitting. :)

I am in 1875 among the Cheyenne Indians with May Dodd One Thousand White Women by, Jim Fergus

#182 - Icedtea: I can see why. It's a great book and she's a fantastic author!

#183 - Susiesharp: I read and loved One Thousand White Women, I thought it was a great story, I passed it on to my sister and she didn't like it as much. Hope you are enjoying it.

I'm in Belle Epoque France with John Singer Sargent in I Am Madame X.

Late 19th and early 20th century England With The Children's Book and enjoying it very much. It is the first A.S. Byatt that I've read, not sure how I've managed to not get to her writing before!

Just left 1913-1933 Missouri in Flying Crows by Jim Lehrer and memories of the Centralia Massacre and the Union Station Massacre. Good read from the somewhat surprisingly imaginative PBS host.

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If anyone needs me I am in late 6th Century China during the founding of The Sui Dynasty by Arthur F. Wright

Cheers

I am also in the 6th century, but in England in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

I'm moving back and forth between 15th century Florence, at the time of Savonarola's condeming of the arts, in "The Birth of Venus", and the 1870s New York "society" of "The Age of Innocence".

I am in 12th century England with William Marshall in "The Greatest Knight" by Elizabeth Chadwick.

I am in 16th century England with Cromwell in Wolf Hall

DeltaQueen I really did enjoy it!
Now I am in the not so distance past 1962 Jackson Mississippi in The Help by, Kathryn Sockett

I'm also in 16th England with Cromwell in Wolf hall on audio!

I've left Florence, Italy (1500s..."The Birth of Venus) and late 1800's New York City society (The Age of Innocence) for England in the time of Henry VIII's later years as King (1539-1542..."The Boleyn Inheritance").

I'm enjoying all the plot twists in late 19th century England with Fingersmith and waiting to go further back in time when wolf hall arrives!

I've just left 14th century England in The Traitor's Wife by Susan Higginbotham for 19th century England in Mesmerized by Candace Camp.

I'm in Vienna in 1902 as psychologist Max Liebermann and Detective Oskar Rheinhardt investigate the mysterious, seemingly impossible death of a beautiful medium, in Frank Tallis's A Death in Vienna.

Last week I spent some time in 14th Century Cambridge in In the Master's Bed- and yes, Blythe Gifford pays enough attention to historical background that I think it's safe to put that here (including an afterword explaining that she knows it wasn't called Cambridge then).

Now I've jumped over to nonfiction with a biography of Abigail Adams by Woody Holton.

1948 in Minneapolis in I'll Watch The Moon by Ann Tatlock

I am now in ancient Egypt after the fall of Ankhnaten, and the abandoned and possibly cursed city of Amarna, with The City of Refuge by D (Diana) .M. Wilder. The new Pharaoh has reopened the stone quarries there an nothing good can come of it: murder, theft, revenge.

Mainly in fifteenth century Venice but occasionally dropping into first century BC Rome. I am reading The Floating Book: A Novel of Venice.

After WWII Malta in The Information Officer by Mark Mills I transported to London and Australia for A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (classic must read)
Then off to 1666 for the plague in England in Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (Brilliant)
Lately in 1905 San Francisco for The Strange Files of Fremont Jones an amusing mystery.

Late 12th century France with The Champion, by Elizabeth Chadwick.

I finished The Bastard's Tale by Margaret Frazer about a week ago. It is set in 1447.

After my trip to France, I took a quick trip to 1860s Japan in Silk, by Alessandro Baricco. Now on to early 14th century Norway in Sigrid Undset's Kristen Lavransdatter trilogy.

I am jumping back and forth between France and Algeria in the late 18th century and 1970s New York and Algeria in The Eight by Katherine Neville.

>#206 Hi, Kasthu! Kristn Lavransdatter is one of my favorite series ever. Norwegian literature is so melancholy. Have you read the Master of Hestviken series?

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Followed 'Quentin' to 1849 Paris & back to 1851 Baltimore in "The Poe Shadow" by Matthew Pearl as he explores the mystery of Edgar A. Poe's final days.

208: No, I haven't read that other series. But I'm really liking Kristin Lavransdatter so far... the joys and despair of young love. I look forward to seeing her mature.

I am in 1905 in Falling Angels by, Tracy Chevalier

Ancient Athens, with Fire From Heaven, by Mary Renault.

I just left Winnie and Wolf.

1995 Tokyo in Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami.

1795-1802 England in The Emperor.