When are you now?

Just as the Global Fiction group has thread for readers to report where their reading is taking them, I thought It might be fun to have a thread for this group to report "when" our reading is taking us.

I just left the 1930's on the edge of Dartmoor, England with a golden age mystery spoof The act of Roger Murgatroyd.

That's an interesting idea but sadly both my current reading books (fiction and non-fiction) are firmly more or less in the present

I'm spanning the years 623 to the near future, around 2020, with The Years of Rice and Salt.

I'm just after the execution of Catherine Howard with The Autobiography of Henry VIII.

I'm around the beginning of the 16th century with Juana La Loca (Queen Juanna/Joanna of Castile) in The Last Queen: A Novel. This is a review copy and the book won't be out until the end of July, but so far it seems fabulous (although I'm not that far in yet).

I'm in the year 1746, just two months before the Battle of Culloden in Scotland, reading Blood of Roses.

I just left the 1890s in the Arizonia territory of the U.S..........These is My Words by Nancy E. Turner...Great Book, great time.....

I'm in 1928 Australia in Ruddy Gore when I am reading and somewhere in England in the early 50's in Behold, Here's Poison when I am listening.

I am in England. It is 1837, the year Queen Victoria took the throne in A Foreign Affair by Caro Peacock

I am in England 1700s with Jane Austen's Northanger Abby. I am also in Scotland, present day with The Poet of Loch Ness. I am also in America 1800s with Thirteen Moons.

I'm too many places to keep it straight!!

At least I'm covering three centuries!!

I am with the Barton family in 1880s London in Angelica by Arthur Phillips.

I am in late 1861 in Washington DC with Faded Coat of Blue by Owen Parry.

#5 jlcardwell: Juana la Loca? Sounds very depressing - what an unhappy life she had!

#8 Stacey42: Lots of G&S references in Ruddy Gore, I hope?

I am in 14th Century England with Geoffrey Chaucer and the other pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales

#12 Lydia - Plenty. The murder took place on stage during a performance of Ruddigore & the detection is taking place mostly during the staging of Pirates of Penzance.

I'm in the early 1530's in The Other Boleyn Girl

It is sort of depressing, but this book depicts her as a very strong woman fighting for her rights and for her country. So while there are horrifying parts, it isn't TOO depressing because she hasn't given up. The book is fantastic, by the way.

I'm in pre-Revolutionary Boston and have just fished a Redcoat out of the Harbor in A Catch of Consequence. (Am also in present day Boston in real life if that counts for anything...)

I'm still in England, but around seven centuries earlier while the Danes are attacking the Saxons in The Last Kingdom.

I am in 1744 in Scotland with Dragonfly in Amber

I'm in England in the 14th century w/ Margaret of Ashbury in A Vision of Light and also in The Republic of Gilead in some unknown future (or alternate reality) with Offred in The Handmaid's Tale

I'm now in AD 381 in (mostly) the eastern Mediterranean reading about early Church/State relations and the formulation of early Christian dogma.

Currently writing my fifth novel set in 1812 in Russia with Napoleon's Grande Armee.

I'm in 1599 in London watching Rosalind (a girl dressed as a boy playing a girl) perform in the newly moved Globe Theater in Master Rosalind.

I'm in 1941 Leningrad just when Hitler declares war on Russia from The Bronze Horseman.

I just left the village of Sitting Marsh in WWII England in Dig Deep for Murder and am about to go to Victorian London for the Season in A Poisoned Season

I'm in the first couple years of the 1800s, in England with the Austen family in The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James.

just finished The Constant Princess..and about to embark on The Other Boleyn Girl...LOVE Historical fiction..!!

I've found my way to ancient Egypt during the reign of the pharaoh Hatshepsut in Mara Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw. It's great fun so far - spies, romance, rebellion...

I'm traveling backwards through English history with The Kigns and Queens of England: A Tourist Guide. It isn't technically historical fiction, but it is pretty light history.

I'm in 1540 in the Court of Henry VIII Anne of Cleves has just been crowned Queen! but not for long!
In the Boleyn Inhetitance by Philippa Gregory

Currently I'm in the present. What-The-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire and participating in the Gun Powder Plot Faith and Treason by Antonia Fraser.

I'm in 14th century Norway with Kristin Lavransdatter.

I am in the 19th century, just after the American Civil War, in Great Britain amid Victorian philologists and their grand concepts and products, where a doctor-victim of that American war, who killed an innocent Londoner, from his bedlam is making a major contribution to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

De gekwelde woordenaar, or The surgeon of Crowthorne or The professor and the madman (speaking of changes in language...) by Simon Winchester

I'm in pre-invasion Britain, around 2,000 years ago having just started reading An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409 by David Mattingly. So far it is a very impressive read.

I'm in Germany at the dawn of the Reformation, around the time Thomas Müntzer's violent populist rebellion failed. That's Q by Luther Blissett. So far it's well-researched and interesting from the historical standpoint, but a little dry in terms of story value. I'm hoping the story will gather steam as I read on.

I'm in England... roughly 1645. Charles I is king and is fighting against the Commonwealth. It's Jean Plaidy's Loyal in Love, also titled Myself My Enemy. It's simple reading but I really do love her stuff. It's "History Light" as I like to call it.

Right before this I was in The Civil War with Cold Mountain. Hmm... maybe I need to read something that does not involve civil warfare next.

I'm in England, between the Wars, with Hercule Poirot and Hastings in Poirot's Early Cases.

Great idea! Let's do this every month. I am a few years after the American Revolution with Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's by Charles A. Cerami.

#18 EstelleChauvelin I really liked The Last Kingdom. Are you going to read the rest of the series?

Historical fiction inspired by myth, but I'm aboard the Argo in ancient Grecian waters with Helen of Sparta, Orpheus, and Jason in Nobody's Prize sequel to the excellent Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesner.

I'm currently in 69AD, 'the year of four emperors' Vespasian is now emperor in Rome. Lindsey Davis The Silver Pigs

I'm in 11th century Italy with Great Maria by Cecelia Holland.

I'm in England, 1471, with The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman. I am completely hooked on her work!

I'm in 1491 Granada reading The Constant Princess about Catherine of Aragon.

>39 Kirconnell:

Possibly, but it's not a priority. I enjoyed it well enough but I was only reading it because I thought it would be a good adventure for a project that I was doing for my Readers' Advisory class, a book talk on Middle Ages/Renaissance history in different genres of fiction. (I'm working on my masters of library science.)

I'm now in Ireland, 1921 with The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor

I'm in the 18th or 19th Century BC right now, in Wilbur Smith's Warlock.

I plan to go to 14th Century England and France next, with Bernhard Cornwell's Grail Quest-trilogy.

It's the early 1700s and I was sailing to Jamaica when my ship was captured by pirates and I have been forced to join them in Tim Power's On Stranger Tides.

Finished my other book. Now I'm in 1824 the Arkansas War by Eric Flint. Just started it, looks good so far. Still working on Northanger Abby. I like this thread alot, perhaps we could start one for every other month?

It's 60 AD, and I'm with the Celtic forces ransacking Camulodunum to avenge the humiliation of Queen Boudica in The Warrior Queen by Alan Gold. So far our luck holds...

I'm switching back and forth between 1824 and 1802 as Chateaubriand is writing his Memoirs from beyond the grave.

I am in the 1870's of Victorian England. I'm reading Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White. So far, so good!

I made a detour after Warlock, since I borrowed a book at my local library that is so popular right now that the library gave me less time than usual in which to read it.

Therefore, I have spent the last days in 14th Century Barcelona, in Ildefonso Falcones' The Cathedral of the Sea, which is rapidly becoming a publishing phenomenon in Norway - just as it was in Spain.

I understand why, it is a well written, rapidly flowing saga filled with love, hate, bravery, injustice, persecution and friendship, set against a wonderfully realized historical background. As an added bonus, I did not know too much about the history of Barcelona or the Empire of Aragon, which reached the pinnacle of its might during the period described in the book, ruling lands right across the Mediterranean.

I'm in New York City in 1882 in Time and Again by Jack Finney.

With Catherine de Braganza in Merry Monarch's Wife

With Diana Gabaldon in colonial America (1773) in A Breath of Snow and Ashes.

1759. London and the Battle of Quebec with The Blooding of Jack Absolute by C. C. Humphreys -- an incredible adventure!

I'm in 1918/19 Boston and Oklahoma with The Given Day, a forthcoming novel by Mystic River author Dennis Lehane. It has a lot of historical details and is very evocative in its descriptions; one has to appreciate that extra effort by the author. So far, it's great but I have another 600 pages to go!

I was just in Trier in 1146 for a day with The Difficult Saint by Sharan Newman. (Can't get the touchstone to work.) I'm thinking of continuing with To Wear the White Cloak.

Two times, two places in Sarah's Key: France early in World War II and in contemporary times. (There are two narrators.)

I'm in 1854 England with The Meaning of Night and 1770's America with The Fiery Cross.

I have just come from two wild years (1918/19) in Boston with the new Lehane novel mentioned in #58. An excellent, brawny historical saga ultimately about the Boston Policemen's strike but so much, much more. I just never realized how much was going on in the country during that two year period.

I'm in 1540, Tudor England, the court of Henry VIII in The Boleyn Inheritence.

I'm in 1850s Toronto with Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood.

I'm alternately between 1950s Buenos Aires and 1932 Germany reading A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr. It's really a crime story rather than an historical novel but but I'm getting quite a lot out of the background for both periods. In Berlin the Nazis are on their way to power and in Argentina escaped Nazis are leading new lives under Peron.

1970's in a suburban area in Michigan: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.

In the Western Desert, North African Campaign, with the 3rd Drogheda, waiting for Rommel's last successful offensive to sweep 8th Army back to El Alamein. Geoffrey Wagner's The Sands of Valor.

Robert A. Mosher

Dual time period: current and mid/late 19th century with The 19th Wife, an ER book. It is great!

I'm afraid I've gone contemporary again. I'll be back when I drift into the past once again. . .

19th century Georgie with The March.

October 1864, in the Shenandoah Valley with the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Action at Aquila by Hervey Allen, a remarkably enjoyable read so far.

Robert A. Mosher

I spent Sunday in 1818 with occasional flashbacks to 1795 in The Black Tower, with Vidocq investigating a series of murders that seem to be related to the lost Dauphin.

1502 England in The Secret Bride: In the Court of Henry VIII by Diane Haeger. I'm not very far into it but what I've read so far I enjoy...although, I don't know if I'll get used to Mary calling Henry VIII "Harry" all the time.

Jolene - let me know how you like that. I'm a Haeger fan but haven't gotten around to reading that one yet!

I'm 1/4 of the way through and I really like it. The only thing I don't like is how long the chapters are. But...I understand that she's doing it to keep the years/dates separate from each other.

Does she write long chapters in her other books? I'd never heard of her before I randomly picked up this novel.

I'm really into this one. Last year I visited Hampton Court Palace when I was in England and learned about Henry VIII. Being able to see the elegance that Diane is writing about has really kept me going through the book.

What could be a very boring and scholarly novel has kept me interested with the gossip of the court. And certain characters turn up just in time to keep things interesting!

If you like her, check out Courtesan. It's a little slow in the beginning but before you know it, you're up until 3 a.m. trying to finish. It's really wonderful, in my humble opinion.

fighting the American Civil War in Tennessee...1863 Hallam's War by Ellisabeth Payne Rosen.

bettyjo, did you buy it or get it as an ER? I snagged it in the ER thread but haven't received it yet.

In England during Henry VIII's reign, with Matthew Shardlake at the monastery at Scarnsea in Dissolution by C.J. Sansom.

I am in England, 1757 with Diana Gabaldon's Lord John and the Private Matter. I love the Outlander books and wanted to give this series a shot, regardless of poor reviews.

#78 I got it as an advanced copy....liked it but not as much as Cold Black Horse, Landsman, or On Agate Hill

I'm right after the Battle of Hastings in England with Julian Rathbone's The Last English King.

I'm in the year 1200 in the Scottish Highlands in The Secret.

I was just in 1890-1902 in the last years of the Ottoman Empire...

However, I've now jumped to another world entirely with Patricia A. McKillip :)

I'm back in 12th century England with Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.

I just finished the reign of King Henry VIII in The Secret Bride: In the Court of Henry VIII by Diane Haeger. Ah, Mary Tudor! Nothing quite like that era. I posted my review this AM.

I've jumped into two different time periods simultaneously. I am finally continuing Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser and just starting American Creation and the founding of America by Joseph J. Ellis.

Upstate New York, 1972: America, America by Ethan Canin.

Just left the Carolinas in 1699 with Speaks the Nightbird Volume 1 by Robert McCammon. In the aftermath of the Salem witch trials. Now in the early 20th century with The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red by Ridley Pearson. Regency period England with Penelope and Prince Charming by Jennifer Ashley.

I'm in 14th century England.
Katherine

I'm in 1757 Germany in Lord John and the Hand of Devils.

Leading up to the American Civil War in the ER book Hallam's War.

Listening: am in 1920s Egypt with Amelia Peabody The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters and that means sort of ancient Egypt as well

Reading: C17th Iran The Blood Flowers Anita Amirrezvani!

I like this idea!

I'm in 1950's Italy, near Florence, in The Savage Garden

The last Civil War was junk (Hallam's War by Elisabeth Payne Rosen). Hopefully Two Brothers: One North, One South by David H. Jones will be better...

I'm in 1525 with "The exceptional life of Anne Boylen" by Carrolly Erickson

Roughly 1811 in England with Amanda Grange's novel Mr. Darcy's Diary.

1960s France: Daughters of the House.

1876 in England with Mesmerized & England & France during the French Revolution with The Fallen Angels by Susannah Kells

1538 with a 5-year old Lady Elizabeth.

I was just in London at the time of the Great Fire and before (1631) with Conceit by Mary Novik. This book relates the stories of John Donne, his wife Ann More and his daughter Pegge.

1921 in Cairo Egypt with Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell. I've gotten acquainted with T. E. Lawrence, a younger Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, and introduced for the first time to Gertrude Bell.

I've just about reached Jerusalem in 1099 on Crusade with Paul Doherty in The Templar. Chances are I'll finish this in the airport lounge today - in which case I'll move to Bronze Age Crete in The Bull Dancers of Knossos by Pam Raggatt.

Cheers

Now I'm in northern England, circa 1665. The black plague is ravaging a small town in Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks.

#103 Just that one I will pick up today at a local bookstore. I ordered for it thanks to this wonderful Librarything and "save" it for my holidays. Together with my last week pick-up Blood and roses (Paston letters, 15th century Great Britain).

I am in Britain in 1912 with the suffragettes and others in Dance on Blood by Gillian Linscott.

I am somewhere around 500 BC in France, in a Dutch YA book Het pad van de Wildeman by Alet Schouten. Sadly I have found only one book of her translated in English.

I just left mid 1930s England in I capture the castle

#106 Dear FAMeulstee, I ordered for Jan Teerkoper by Alet Schouten: the French in Enkhuizen in 1795. Do you know it? (I am looking for Dutch couleur locale 1785-1797 for my hero Dooitse Eelkes Hinxt http://www.librarything.nl/talktopic.php?topic=31517).
Shall we make threads for "geschiedenis" and "historische romans" in the group "Nederlandstalige lezers"?

I am in 1945 Germany...fleeing from the Russians in Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian

In still in Victorian-era Toronto with Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace. Her historical detail is excellent.

9th century Germany with Pope Joan.

I am in Rome, 1520, with The Ruby Ring, by Diane Haeger. Looking forward to getting into it.

I just slogged through Tennessee in Hallam's War. And just posted my review. I hate to call it "junk" (see #94), but only because it felt like Payne Rosen really poured her heart into it. It was heavy going.

I'm in Tudor England, 1527, with Katherine of Aragon in The King's Pleasure by Norah Lofts.

And I'm quite near you (!) in England during the Black Death (only 200 years away) Ken Follett World without End

I am in England at the end of Quenn Elizabeth I reign. I am going between her court and the court of the fae queen Invidiana in Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan.

I'm in New Orleans and St. Louis in 1857 in George R. R. Martin's Fevre Dream.

The 1st Century BC, with Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough.

I think I will be moving to 12th Century England next, with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.

I just left 1871 Paris France. Mademoiselle Victorine by Debra Finerman.

I just left late 19th century New York in Murder on Bank Street and while it's not fiction, I'm in revolutionary war America in Founding Mothers - its great, easy-to-read non-fiction.

Pre-WWII & WWII: I've just reread the ten excellent espionage novels of Alan Furst ranging from Night Soldiers through The Spies of Warsaw. What an incredible series! Furst couples excellent historical research with great writing style capturing the Casablancaesque feel of the noir inter-war years. Easy, enjoyable reading. I particularly like how he's peoples his universe with a set of reoccurring minor characters while creating a series of very different protagonists: A French attache, Italian journalist, Bulgarian, etc... recommended.

I'm schmoozing with late 19th century New York City high society, aka The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.

I have just received my first Diana Gabaldon book in the post. So I'll shortly be in Scotland in 1743 with Outlander. (I have the UK version which is called Cross Stitch).

annie - I'm such a dork and got really excited to hear that there's a new Diana Gabaldon reader! Enjoy!

I am in 1964 Selma Alabama in the YA book A Tugging String, a novel about growing up during the Civil Rights era by David T. Greenberg

I'm just entering WWII through the eyes of the Mitford sisters. It's not fiction, but reading their compiled letters is just as fun and fascinating!

I'm in 1550s England with Queen's Fool, early 19th century England with Vanity Fair, and 1940's Germany with The Book Thief.

I'm in France & England July 1917 with
At Some Disputed Barricade, the fourth in
the Anne Perry WWI series.

I'm aboard the HMS Miranda sometime during the Napoleonic Wars being a Powder Monkey.

I'm in Virginia in the 18th century with Washington's Lady. Lots of people are starting to get pretty pissed about all of this taxation stuff...

#43 jeri889: Wish I were there with you! I remember the first time I read Sunne in Splendor...what a powerful book.

Think I, too, will join with Richard III in the late 15th century and pick up Treason (wrong touchstone) from my tbr pile next.

For now, hopelessly modern with Elizabeth George's With No One As Witness along with DI Lynley and DS Havers.

I'm now somewhere between 1537 and 1540 with Isabel Allendes Ines of my soul.

I am playing the cello for the court in Madrid leading up to the Spanish Civil War w/The Spanish Bow

Just left Ancient Greece and post-revolutionary France in Stealing Athena by Karen Essex

Review: http://skrishnasbooks.blogspot.com/2008/07/stealing-athena-karen-essex.html

I've just finished the second half of the 20th Century in rural China, with Life and Death are Wearing Me Out: A Novel by Mo Yan. This is a great read ... I posted a short review.

I'm attempting to solve a wave of serial crime through talk therapy alongside Freud in turn of the century New York in The Interpretation of Murder.

1899 Manhattan following the soap opera lives of teens in The Luxe.

I'm in Napoleonic France rereading Quills. I don't read it as often as I watch the movie, but it's quite different so it deserves a revisit every now and then.

I'm in the first century A.D. with I, Claudius by Robert Graves.

I'm in 1715 in The Wild Rose of Kilgannon.

I'm with some intrepid English spies around 1800 trying to keep Napoleonic France from fomenting rebellion in Ireland and invading England with The Deception of the Emerald Ring.

Hi! I am in the last 60 pages or so of Voyager. This is a great series!

I'm in 1788 reading Lord Sin. I like the unusual heroine.

Ancient Greece- I'm reading The Ten Thousand by Michael Curtis Ford. Xenophon has just taken charge of leading the Greeks back home.

1790s in Peter Ackroyd's The Lambs of London.

I'm currently horrified in the 1650s in Oxford watching a near-dissection of a young woman who may not be quite dead in Newes from the Dead by Mary Hooper.

I'm currently witnessing the violent General Strike of 1922 (or 'Rand Revolt') in South Africa. Reading A Sparrow Falls by Wilbur Smith.

I am in roughly the early-mid 1500's during the reign of Henry VIII. I am with a witch in The Wise Woman, by Philippa Gregory. The reviews on this have not been too promising, but we shall see how it pans out.

I'm in 1880's Edinburgh with a psychotic killer (is there any other kind?), university professor and lamplighter! Surprisingly the book is called The Lamplighter by Anthony O'Neill

I am in ancient Rome with Cicero in Imperium.

I just finished reading Linda Proud's A Tabernacle for the Sun, an exceptionally fine literary novel, and am lingering in Florence during the early Renaissance. I've posted a review at www.HistoricalNovels.info

Around 1530-1540... Plain Jane, by Laurien Gardner. It's about Jane Seymour. I read Gardner's book about Anne Boleyn and loved it, so I have high hopes for this one.

I have gone back to WWII in City of Thieves by David Benioff...seige of Leningrad.

In 1930's California in The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain.

On a dangerous expedition in an eerily altered Europe in the early 20th century in Robert Charles Wilson's excellent Darwinia.

>158 bookladykm:
Does Darwinia happen to come with a map?

Studying The Savage Garden in 1958 Tuscany with an English grad student, and we're about to be in a whole lot of trouble, I think...

Just left the Old Testament with Rebekah by Orson Scott Card and Song of Redemption, second book in Chronicles of the Kings series.

I'm back in 1500s England in a place that many have already visited--the court of Henry VIII with The Other Boleyn Girl. I may be there for a while as the book isn't exactly a page turner.

It is 1781 in Michener's Chesapeake

London 1600, in the later years of Queen Elizabeth I with Romance of the Rose by Julie Beard & Regency Era England with After Midnight by Teresa Medeiros.

I'm in 17th Century Amsterdam, reading The Coffee Traders by David Liss

I just finished the second of a wonderful pair of novels set in the late 14th to early 15th centuries in England. Actually, the second book begins in Prague, Bohemia.

They are The Illuminator and The Mercy Seller by Brenda Rickman Vantrease. I enjoyed these books so much, and they made me even more interested in the history of a period I already loved!

>159 DaynaRT: fleela: you are probably being facetious, but it went over my head :)

No need for a map; Wilson does a great job describing the new boundaries. The (remaining) English get to keep England, while continental Europe is unexplored except to the bravest...or craziest.

>167 bookladykm:
No, I was quite serious. I prefer books with maps, that's all.

I'm now in 1543 in London nearing the end of "Revelation" by C.J. Sansom. Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer, is investigating horrific murders with Henry VIII's courtship of Katherine Parr in the background. And, yes, there is a map. It's of London but very useful as Shardlake's conception of the place is different from ours. He lives at Lincoln's Inn which is outside the city walls, as is Bedlam (lunatic asylum) where another major character is located. The map makes a world of difference to my understanding of the book even though I have long been aware of the distinction between "City of London" and the modern city.

I'm with Mattias Tannhauser in the 1565 war in Malta in
The Religion.

I am in Paris 1919 (Dutch translation) by Margaret MacMillan, with Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau and many others, peacemaking at the Paris Peace Conference. At this particular moment (p.183) we do business with Rumenia.

I'm in the twelfth century with Pillars of the earth.

I'm in 1938 Berlin, in Philip Kerr's The Pale Criminal, sequel to March Violets.

Regency age with Georgette Heyer of course, usually I read in Italian (my language), now I'm attempting in English...

I'm in 1950 Barcelona in The Shadow of the Wind.

I'm on the Sweetsmoke plantation in Virginia during the Civil War with a slave named Cassius.

I'm alternating between 16th century New Spain and the present with The Crystal Skull. It's sort of the literary equivalent of a popcorn movie.

Now in 1935 England in Part One of "Atonement" by Ian McEwan, will shortly move to WWII.

Just left 1970s Afganistan, 2001 San Francisco &
2001 Afganistan/Pakistan with Amir in "The Kite Runner''.

I'm now in the first century AD with Boudica in Ravens of Avalon.

I'm in the 1500's, with Phillippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl and The Constant Princess. Some that I've conversed with about these books lightly consider them historical fiction - but I digress.
I'm actually, only now out of my life-long reading frenzy (not that long lol), getting mildly fascinated with historical fiction type of books.

I'm in the Tudor Dynasty, with Love and Mayhem being set in 1525 Scotland and 1600 England with Romance of the Rose by Julie Beard.

I'm hanging out with The Greatest Knight William Marshall in the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1175.

I've just been immersed in a woman's life in eleventh century Sicily. This was a reread of one of my favorite historical novels of all time: Cecelia Holland's Great Maria. I've reviewed it here on LT, and also posted a review on my Historical Novels website at www.HistoricalNovels.info.

I have Great Expectations for my time in 1800s England.

# 182

How is The Greatest Knight? I've been interested in William Marshall since discovering The Lion in Winter - the film was great and we performed the play in college. Marshall generally appears there as Henry II's go-to guy and general errand boy but I later discovered Georges Duby's 1985 book William Marshal, The Flower of Chivalry which had a good bit more information on him.

Robert A. Mosher

I'm in 14th century Ireland with The Queen's Tale by DJ Birmingham.

I'm in 1692 Andover/Salem for the witch trials in The Heretic's Daughter, an ARC by Kathleen Kent.

Alternating between late 18th century France and 1970s US and Algeria in Katherine Neville's The Eight (wrong touchstone). Re-reading in preparation for the upcoming sequel publication. It's been 20 years between the books.

Its sort of this subject; although not reading it I'm writing Casca 30: Napoleon's Soldier, set in Russia in 1812. I'm on the 'home run' and have taken the protagonist through most of the suffering and got him to Orsha, in between Smolensk and Minsk. He's still got the Berezina to cross, however, and that's the really nasty bit. And the weather's turning a bit chilly.

I'm in 1050s Scotland with Macbeth in Susan Fraser King's Lady Macbeth

Cheers

About 1790 in Lord Scandal.

I'm in the 1970s reading a fictionalized version of George and Laura Bush's courtship in American Wife.

1866 in Texas and Mexico in Winnetou II by Karl May

OOOO, I want to know what that book is about, Winnetou II I can't find a review on it.

I am still in 2000's right now I am reading Odd Hours by Dean Koontz.

My next book though I will be back in 1873 with A lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird, can't wait.

I'm in Restoration England (ca 1670) with Karleen Koen's Dark Angels.

I've just emerged from twelfth-century Sicily with Barry Unsworth's The Ruby in Her Navel. It was a nice companion read with Cecelia Holland's Great Maria, set in eleventh-century Sicily. I recommend both novels, but people picking up The Ruby in Her Navel should be forewarned that it's basically a complicated mystery novel, and you should be picking up clues as you go along - everything ties together in the end. I've posted a review at www.HistoricalNovels.info.

I'm in the Ice Age with Ayla in The Valley of Horses.

I'm in Paris in the 1940s and am part of the Resistance against the Nazis.

Edited because I'm an idiot.

Now I am in 1873 with A lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird

Now I'm just a few years later but in Pennsylvania in The Whiskey Rebels.

198 - sounds good - what is the name of the book?

>201 lynnmc:: It is called Resistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France.

I'm in Russia, 1942 with The Bronze Horseman.
I'm also in Georgian England with Wideacre.

202 - Thanks - I'll keep an eye out for it.

>204 lynnmc:, It is actually non-fiction, even though this is the historical fiction group (I was having a bad time of it, brainwise, yesterday), but I am really enjoying it so far.

Also hanging out in early 19th century England with biblioholic 29 -- Vanity Fair by Thackeray.

I'm in 1492 France and Algeria and 1972 New York and Algeria. I'm reading The Eight by Katharine Neville.

Not such a bad place to be.

Off to start a continuation thread as this one is starting to load pretty slow.

England, 1662. I'm reading Restoration by Rose Tremain.

Oops--link to the new thread here.

Granted, the first third of Q by Luther Blissett is a drag, mainly because of too much stream-of consciousness, but after that it is anything but "dry." One of the most violent and bloody novels I have ever read.

I picked up Elizabeth's Gaskell's Gothic Tales, expecting it to be contemporary 19th century spooky stuff, but most of it was actually set in her past. Right now I'm reading her novella "Lois the Witch" which is based on the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s.

I'm in the Napoleonic wars and have been shipwrecked again with Captain Aubrey on the shores of France in The Surgeon's Mate. Not a good place to be right now. Those Frenchies are really pissed off.

I just came up from a ball with Miss Elizabeth Bennet and oh how I wish I lived in that time!!! Pride and Predjudice will always remain one of my favorite novels!!!

It is spring of 1701 and I am waiting with the other Samurai, they are deciding whether to fight or just commit seppuke (Hari Kari) as they learn of their master's execution at the hands of the Shogun in The 47 Ronin Story by John Allyn.

I'm just about to leave Jomsborg having travelled there from Hresteng, Sweden in the Viking Age (975CE) with Orm Bear Slayer and the Oathsworn in The Prow Beast by Robert Low.

The plan is to sail down the Oder possibly to Constantinople

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I'm now in 1794 in The Tide of War.

I'm with Robin and Marion in Lady of the Forest by jennifer roberson. The touchstone is not working for the title of the book.

I'm in 1896 with Sterling Hayden in Voyage. Almost finished with this epic that tells the tale of a four-masted barque's extraordinary trek around Cape Horn. Also covers the presidential election of that year. Mostly, though it's about the gap that existed between the haves and have-nots of that period.

I'm in the 1890's with the Hawaiian Revolution. _The Imperialist: A Novel of the Hawaiian Revolution_.

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