When Are You Now? 2010, Part 2

We are over 200 messages in the previous thread, so I thought I would start a new one.

I am in early- to mid-20th century North Carolina learning Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons.

I have my ER to read as the next book when I finish this one. It is HF.

I'm in Yorkshire in Romancing Miss Bronte. Branwell just died, so it must be 1848.

I have just left the year 1176 with Ariana Franklin's A Murderous Procession and am traveling backward in time to ancient Egypt -1477 BC- with P.C. Doherty's The Spies of Sobeck.

In 1867 England in Heaven's Bones which seems pretty Gothic.

I am tagging along with Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon in 18th century London.

It's 1942 and I am serving on the submarine Mackerel and we have just started out from Pearl Harbour on our patrol in Pride Runs Deep by R. Cameron Cooke.

I am in the late 19th century or early 20th century (not sure, really) China with The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. Very interesting so far!

I'm Chartres Castle in France in the year 1133, with Henry the Bishop of Winchester, Stephen the Count of Mortain and Theobald the Count of Blois debating whether Maude, the daughter and only living child of King Henry of England, is fit to rule the kingdom after her father's death.

When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman. Historical fiction at its finest!

I am with the Borgias and their Poisoner in Renaissance Italy. Reading LT ER Poison by Sara Poole.

Studying the violin with Vivaldi in 18th-Century Venice, with The Four Seasons by Laurel Corona. It is a fascinating, beautifully written book so far!

I'm in Gisors in 1174 with Henry ii being his wonderful, imperious self. I'm struggling emotionally with this wretched family torn apart by ambition and adultery. Sharon Kay Penman paints such rich and comprehensive portraits of all the characters that you end up loving them all whilst they all infuriate beyond measure. Devil's Brood is yet another brilliant example of historical fiction.

I'm sailing the 18th century Caribbean with Claire and Jamie in Diana Gabaldon's Voyager. I don't know how the Outlander series snuck by me for so long, but I'm certainly glad I found it!

I'm in the 15th century around Spain in By Fire, By Water by Mitchell James Kaplan.

I am enjoying the Kent countryside circa 1827 with Mr. Pickwick and his companions in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

edited to correct author touchstone ... which doesn't appear to be working

I am about to head off to the trenches of World War I in Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.

I'm waiting for the Redcoats in Massachusetts in 1775 in April Morning by Howard Fast.

I'm in 1907 Wisconsin in A Reliable Wife.

I'm splitting my time amongst three different whens/wheres: some of my days are being spent in England with Stephen and in France with Maude during the mid-12th century (see #9 above), some are in first century Palestine with The Secret Magdalene, and the rest are in the Black Hills from the time of of the Battle of Little Bighorn to around the time Mount Rushmore was dedicated with Paha Sapu of the Sioux.

Ya know, a person could get dizzy zipping back and forth between so many historical eras and places like that!

I am in the late 16th century/early 17th century traveling across India with The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan. Just started the book, but I like it so far!

I'm in London with Maisie Dobbs in 1930--readingPardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear.

I'm in Stonewall's army in the American Civil War 1861-2 in Thomas Keneally's Confederates

In multiple periods with the mystery The Nineteenth Wife. A good read focusing on Mormonism and polygamy, and the impacts on the family.

Note touchstone not leading to correct book, should be --The 19th Wife. Sorry about that!

#9-I, too am currently reading When Christ and His Saints Slept. Having read, now, half of the Brother Cadfael series, set against & at times in the midst of 'The Anarchy' I have been looking for more information on this intriguing period of English history! I have been of late wallowing the Middle Ages (in my reading as well as my internet surfing) this book should keep me busy & 'off the streets' for a while @ 700+ pages it ought to! 8^)

On my way to Nebraska with 16 Civil War widows (1871) in Sixteen Brides by Stephanie Grace Whitson.

#25 Vanye ~ I got sidetracked with a couple of other novels that had to go back to the library so haven't been reading When Christ and His Saints Slept lately, but I intend to get back to it as soon as I finish the library books. It's funny, when I own a book it's easier to put it aside to read something from the library. Sometimes I never do get around to finishing a book I own that I set aside "just until I finish" something else. I don't think I'm going to have that problem with the Penman though ~ I've been dying to get back to it.

ETA what I meant to say when I started this post: How are you doing so far with it (the doorstopper)? I've read all the Cadfaels and also find that period fascinating, but I'm really looking forward to the story of Eleanor and Henry. Such a love match in such a crazy time!

Have you seen 'Becket' & 'Lion in Winter'? Peter O'Toole plays Henry in both & Katherine Hepburn plays Elanore in 'Lion in Winter'. They are a highly dysfunctional bunch. The sons are a pack of Jackals who would cheerfully slit one another's throats to become their Daddy's heir. 8^)

#28 - I'm in England and Wales 1172, reading Devil's Brood, - and yes, Becket and Lion in Winter are great, great movies!

Love those two movies, esp. Lion in Winter! I need to watch both again. *scurries off to find the VCRs* (yes, I still have a collection of movies on VCR) (and a small TV/VCR combo on which to play them) (no, I am not a Luddite, just overwhelmed at the thought of either transferring to or buying all those movies on DVD :-)

Me too! So I have a VCR player & a DVD player-it's much cheaper than the alternative! As a matter of fact I have just recently acquired the VCR of 'The African Queen' at a 2nd hand store-going to watch it soon it has been many years since I saw it last! 8^)

I'm a Child of the Morning in ancient Egypt (so, 16th c. BC).

I'm in 1788 New South Wales with "The Lieutenant" by Kate Grenville as he begins learning to communicate with the native inhabitants.
I just finished "The Secret River" also set in New South Wales, but slightly later.

I'm sailing along in 1800 with Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian.

Oh how I love Patrick O'Brian's books!

I'm sailing the oceans as well but I am with Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver in the year of our grace 17__, searching for the Treasure Island.

I'm mostly in NYC and a little bit in Washington DC so far in 1941 with A Fierce Radiance.

I finished my sea voyage and now I am consorting with thieves in 1860's London with Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.

In England in 1136 w/Tom, the stonemason Pillars of the Earth. 8^)

I'm sorting out the young prisoner with the Three Musketeers in 1660 in The Man in the Iron Mask.

I am in 19thC Istanbul and Venice with Inspector Yashim in The Bellini Card. An historical mystery. Book 3 in the series, and loving it so far.

I'm in 1770 New York as the colony struggles with unrest against England in Edward Rutherfurd'swonderful New York.

I'm in Nebraska a few years following the Civil War with a bunch of female homesteaders in Sixteen Brides.

I'm at Barnum's American Museum in 1865 in The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno.

I just left The Quickening Maze.

I am reading Stealing Fire by Jo Graham.

It will probably have a bit of fantasy (magic or gods). It is an LT ER book. Its her 3rd book and I loved her first 2.

I'm in NYC in 1974 in Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin, which I'm reading for book club.

I'm in 1920's Kenya at The White Rhino Hotel.

I'm with a young girl making her debut in late 1800's NY City in She Walks In Beauty.

I Loved Stealing Fire by Jo Graham.

It was an ER book, and her 3rd book. Also enjoyed the others, but this is my favorite.

Its set after the death of Alexander, but he is recalled in memories and flash backs.

Like a wonderful continuation of Mary Renault - Alex, Hephastion, Bagoas are all there and done so well its like being with old friends.

Oh, that's so good to hear, Ficus! I too loved her first two and was so excited to get the ER of her latest. I was going to wait until I finished the books I've already got going, but if it's that excellent, I just might have to start Stealing Fire tonight.

In late 19th century France, traveling to Lourdes in hope for a cure.

In the nineteenth century in the foothills of the Himalayas in India with The Far Pavillions Terrific book so far!!

I'm in France in 1818 in Louis Bayard's The Black Tower.

hi! i'm in the prehistoric age (about 30.000 years ago) moving from the half frozen ucraina of nowdays, to france; "the plains of passage" by Jean M. Auel.
actually i'm travelling through "le pianure del passaggio" in my mother tongue.

and this is my first post in this forum!
hope i'm doing everything right...

Benvenuto, neegula! Hope you come back often!

I'm in the year 1200 in Normandy in The Sixth Surrender.

It's 1941 and I am in Paris in midst of the Natzi Occupation in Alan Furst's Red Gold. This is the sequel to The World At Night and both books are beautifully written, dark, and brooding.

I am now in 1776 New York, reading a very good YA book called Chains by Laurie Halse
Anderson. I am reading this for both my 1010 Challenge and for the Reading Through Time Challenge.

I am in 19th century India with The Far Pavilions. This is another book I should have read long ago, but just now got around to!

I'm in Shanghai 1937 in Shanghai Girls.

I am reading Stealing Athena by Karen Essex.

It is about the Elgin Marbles and is a two track story. One is set in ancient 5thC BC Athens when they are made, and the other is in the 18thC when Elgin is collecting them.

i am in 1791 American south in The Kitchen House.

I'm in 1794 in London and around France in Mam'zelle Guillotine.

#59 I had The Far Pavillions on my shelf forever--it was so good, I can't believe I waited.

I am now starting Dissolution by C.J. Sansom, an historical mystery set in Tudor England. It was an LT inspired book.

I just finished reading Buffalo Soldiers by Tom Willard, the first in the Black Sabre Chronicles which tells the story of a black American military family from the 1860's through to Desert Storm. This first installment was excellent.

1139 in Shropshire w/Cadfael The Virgin in the Ice where the civil between Stephen & his cousin Maude rages on! Bonnie

I'm back in 1794 in France in Eldorado.

Still running around France in 1794 with the Scarlet Pimpernel, but now it's May in Sir Percy Hits Back.

@ #64

Yes, I can't believe I waited either! I am really enjoying it so far -- I am only about 1/8 into it. I'm on vacation (in the Black Hills today, hence the internet access) and I don't have as much time as I thought I would to read!

I'm in 1924 in Nicaragua in Banana Republican.

Oops. Wrong thread.

Never Mind ....

Ok, I mean it this time.

I am starting Flint by Margaret Redfern. Set in England and Wales during the reign of Edward I

669 A.D. Ireland w/ Sister Fidelma & Eadulf searching for the killer(s) of the High KIng! Dancing with Demons 8^)

I'm in 1794 in Paris in The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel.

In the 9th century with Pope Johanna (book by Donna Woolfolk Cross).

I like spending time in the Middle Ages.

I'm in the 1C BCE with Cicero in Imperium. Just getting started!

I am in the 1920s alerting you about my new novel, Crestmont, listed here on Librarything.

It's 1849 and I am clinging to a covered wagon crossing the American prairie in Against All Odds: The Lucy Scott Mitchum Story by Barbara Riefe.

I have just left 1936 and the carving of Mount Rushmore, as described in The Black Hills by Dan Simmons, a boring, disappointing novel and am now briefly in 1989 thanks to a previously unpublished novel by Harlan Coben titled Play Dead which, in my opinion, should have remained unpublished. I'm looking forward to visiting London in 1781 when I read Anatomy of Murder by Imogen Robertson even though I have no read her debut novel, Instruments of Darkness

It's 1905 and I'm in an alternative Victorian London, complete with airships, automata and zombies in The Affinity Bridge be George Mann

@ # 82 The Affinity Bridge sounds wonderful! I have added this to my wishlist and will be interested to hear your opinion when you have finished it.

adpaton - It was rather good fun. I've posted a review on the book's page and I'd definitely reccommend it as a frivolous read.

My husband and I love sailing with Jack. I tell my husband I'd follow Jack anywhere, but when I'm walking, and talking in my head, it's Maturin I talk to. Lucky you, the whole series ahead of you.

I'm on Ithaka waiting with Penelope for Odysseus to come home.

I went from London in 1781 when investigating The Anatomy of Murder by Imogen Robertson to Cuba in the mid 1950s to look into the affair of Our GG in Havana by Pedro Juan Gutierrez and I am now in Berlin in 1934, dodging political landmines with Bernie Gunther as Nazi Germany prepares to host the Olympic Games in If the Dead Rise Not, by Philip Kerr

Finished my sojourn with Cicero in the 1C BC and now am joining the Pinarius family in 1-2C AD in Empire by Steven Saylor.

Just getting ready to dive into Hawkeye's family in the early 1800s in New York state in The Endless Forest by Sara Donati

I'm in 1594 in London with Mrs Shakespeare

I'm in 20th century Greece, Scotland and New York City during Three Junes, but I am not enjoying it...can't wait for it to be done.

In 1917 Russia with Rasputin's Daughter having just left 19th century England in Silent In The Sanctuary.

I am in the start of the American Revolution in Massachusetts and Rhode Island with The Brimstone Papers by David chacko and Alexander Kulcsar.

ETA:

The publisher sent the book to me for review.

I'm currently in Elizabethan England, looking at the relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I, in Elizabeth and Mary by Jane Dunn.

I am in Georgia, sitting on the front porch with Scarlett as the Tarleton Twins bore her with all this war talk. Re-reading Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell for a group read, am curious how I will find this book after 30 years.

I am in 1806 Dover with Martin Jerrold in The Blighted Cliffs. I just started, but already I am enjoying it so much more than the previous book!

@98

I should read Gone with the Wind again, too! I loved it when I was a kid.

I'm in 1951 Ireland hearing the tales of the Isle's past in Ireland: A Novel by Frank Delaney.

I am in the 1870s in Brussels in the brothel Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja. My June LT ER book.

I'm in the 1790s in France in The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Still there, but in The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Mostly, I'm in 1900s Paris with 'Nina', a Russian Jewish immigrant, in "Why She Married Him" by Myriam Chapman. Currently, I've gone back to 1885-1905 Ukraine to see Nina's parent's life there.

Finished Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome by Steven Saylor which I snagged as an early reviewer. I've posted the review on the work page.

I'm in a monastery on the south coast of England in 1537 in Dissolution by C.J. Sansom.

Still in the deep south with Scarlett, Melanie etc. but I am also jumping forward to 1943 Liverpool with Through The Storm which is the last part of Maureen Lee's trilogy about WW II.

> 99

Oh, I loved that book! I'm working my way through the Hornblower series, and I can't tell you what a relief it was to read a story where the protagonist is really kind of hopeless.

I'm currently in an alternate 1806 or 1807, training in Scotland with His Majesty's Dragon.

Not precisely sure on the "when" because nothing has indicated a year yet, but I'm guessing mid-1780s in A Child of the Revolution. I know I'll be in 1794 when it ends.

I'm busy sleuthing with Flavia in 1950s England in The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag. Very cute, so far!

@108

I would like to read all of the Hornblower books someday. So far, I only have the first one and I haven't read it yet. I also want to read more of the Aubrey-Maturin books, too. So far, I only have the first one of those, too! I enjoyed it a lot.

I'm now in 1922 in Transylvania in Pimpernel and Rosemary.

I am in Southern India in 507 AD. Will be visiting Tibet and China with A Sudden Dawn by Goran Powell. Book was sent to me by the publisher for a review.

I have been spending the weekend in 1860's Richmond, Virginia with Elizabeth Van Lew and her network of Federalists trying to help the Union prisoners in Libby prison and feed the Union army information in Only Call Us Faithful.

I'm in 3000(?) BC with Gilgamesh and 1st Century BC with The Spartacus War.

I'm in Londinium in 75AD solving another murder with Marcus Didius Falco in The Jupiter Myth.

I am in France in the year 1650, visiting the Chateau de la Valliere in Mistress of the Sun.

I am in England - having just picked up The White Queen by Philippa Gregory out as a copy of the second in the series The Red Queen is waiting for me at the library :)

In Shropshire w/Cafael in 1141 The Raven in the Foregate & finding that the book differs quite a bit from the TV version. This is not necessarily a bad thing, not in this case at any rate. I recognize that a 1 hour TV script cannot depict every scene that is included in a 200+ page book. This is just a different way of telling the same story in a different medium. 8^)

I'm in 1660 England following Amber on her "perils of Pauline"-type adventures in Forever Amber.

I'm in 1C B.C. with Spartacus in a non-fiction book The Spartacus War.

I am still in France but now it is 1770 and I am at Versailles to observe the marriage of the young Dauphin to Marie Antoinette, with Abundance, A Novel Of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund.

I'm in the late 18th century, upstate New York in Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati.

#124-you'll love it and the rest of the series! Enjoy!

Currently in the Victorian Era (1837-1901) with "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and "The Tale of Two Cities".

16th Century Florence in The Birth of Venus soon to be back in Tudor England in Wolf Hall.

I am at the naval hospital in Portsmouth, training to be a volunteer nurse. It's just 1940 and the war appears to be really getting underway in A Girl Called Thursday by Lilian Harry.

Conversely, I am also in league with some Hungarian diplomat's, doing a little spy work in Paris. This time it is 1938, reading Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst.

I can't rave enough about Fatfingers: A Tale of Old New Orleans! I've reviewed it in my thread...post #95.

The author, Charlie White, is an LTer who sent me a copy of the book about two months ago, and per my custom I've read the book twice before reviewing it. I waited two weeks between reads to be sure I wasn't just in a giddy, I-love-the-world mood when I read it the first time, thus explaining why I was so amused and entertained.

Nope. It's the book. I really, really think y'all should read it, especially anyone interested in things Cajun and things picaresque. It's good stuff, set in the late 1750s as the Seven Years' War was cementing Britain's place as The Superpower. Told from a displaced Acadian's PoV, it's a rousing good personalization of the era!

In 1476 in Bristol w/Roger the chapman The Weaver's Inheritance which is the second book in this series for me. Roger is a rather unlikely sleuth-tho he seems to have the most important prerequisite for the task-i.e. an insatiable curiosity!

I have discovered several different series in the genre(Medieval mysteries) seemingly enough to keep me reading for many years to come. I believe that one of main things that attracts me to these books is simply the pace of life in those times. I find the pace of modern life simply appalling & since i am retired i just live at a pace more to my liking. Thus these books suit me just fine. 8^)

I'm in 1666 England, and I have just witnessed the death of a guest in my home, feared to be the plague, in Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks.

I'm about to sail off to the Baltic with Capt. Aubrey and Dr. Maturin in The Surgeon's Mate as they continue to battle that nasty Napoleon.

1870's Texas and Western U.S. L. L'Amour To Tame A Land just finished 17th Century Western U.S. Jubal L L'Amour.

It is the late 1800's and I am exploring the Nebraska prairie in Willa Cather's My Antonia.

In Victorian England with Little Dorrit--Dickens at his best!

Just came across this definition of a historical novel as a book in which "the plot reflects its historical period so well that the story could not have occurred at any other time in history." (according to Historical Novel Reviews website) This is one aspect that i most enjoy about reading historical fiction-i e the flavor of the time period which comes across in the reading. In short you know that you are not in the 21st century! 8^)

Good definition of HF. I think that you will find that "I, Demokedes" fits. Details available at Amazon Books.

I'm in 16th century Florence in The Agony and the Ecstasy, the semi-fictional biography of Michelangelo. Stretching the definition?

im in the reign of king henry the VIII

It's the early 1700's and I am exploring the American wilderness with Jubal Sackett.

Still wandering around 12th-century Palermo with The Ruby in Her Navel; starting The Dream of Scipio, mainly set in 5th- and 15th-century Rome.

I spent today with Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and their sons in The Lion in Winter.

Just finished a bloody romp through the life of Christopher Marlowe with word-alchemist Anthony Burgess as my guide: A Dead Man at Deptford. In his Author's Note at the end of the novel, Burgess admits that "The virtue of a historical novel is its vice--the flatfooted affirmation of possibility as fact."

Just left Tudor England in Wolf Hall and jumping to 1962 Mississippi in The Help for book club.

I am south of Indonesia hunting a nasty French ship with Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin in The Nutmeg of Consolation early-ish 1800's. I am so entertained by the idea that they can race to meet the departure deadline from a port only to end up just outside it for days and days while the wind pushes them one way and the current pushes them the other way so they don't go anywhere at all!

I am ashamed to say that I have skipped an episode because I made a mistake when ordering my next 2 books and only got this one, which is one past where I left off. I'm not ashamed of my mistake in ordering wrong from the library, I'm ashamed that I couldn't wait for the previous one to come in before I started reading the later one. No willpower whatsoever.

I'm with Robin and Marion in Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson. The touchstone isn't working for the title.

I'm sneaking into William Blake's garden in 1700's London, during the French Revolution, with Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier.

In in England and France in 1917 in the second book of WWi trilogy Heart Of War by John Masters

Some time this weekend I will be starting Watermark by Vanitha Sankaran. It takes place is a small French village in 1320.

It's 1870 and I am in Devon, England visiting at the country mansion of the Forresters in The House At Harcourt by Anita Burgh.

I read The Mistress of Abha by William Newton. It was an LT ER book.

It was good, if a bit dry and detached. Mostly people telling stories.

I've been thundering across eastern Europe with the
Mongols in 13C in Khan: Empire of Silver by Conn Iggulden--an LT ER book. Review coming soon.

I am in 1932 in Scotland in A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

A trilogy which is difficult to read but worth the effort. I have to flip back to the glossary for many of the words (lowlands Scots).

I was in England during 1326 with The Bishop Must Die by Michael Jecks and having finished that I am in a form of Dark Ages Arthurian England (but with heavy high medieval undertones) as I power through the latest in the Merlin Investigates series The Pendragon Murders by J.M.C. Blair

Cheers

Just leaving 19th-century Italy via The Blind Contessa's New Machine, which I've adored.

It is 1838 and I am on a journey with the Governer-General of India into the Punjab. He is trying to enlist aid from Maharajah Ranjit Singh in his bid to invade Afghanistan. His sisters who are accompanying him, are helping a young friend find a husband before she reaches the ripe old age of 22. The book is A Singular Hostage by Thalassa Ali.

Okay, the scary mean people in "Recommend Site Improvements" are onto something I've wanted for ages of ages...easy ways to identify discussions about specific books without having to hunt and search and generally get annoyed at the prolixity of our beloved Thingamabrarian community.

The thread discussing it is over here and I strongly encourage all and sundry to head over there and make your opinions known!

In the 1C BC with Anthony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough.

It's 1774 and I am about to join a hunting party that plans on crossing through the Cumberland Gap and hunting and exploring the area beyond called Kentucky. I am reading The Kentuckians by Janice Holt Giles for the November Reading Through Time Challenge.

In Rheims, France with Eisenhower in 1945 after the Battle of the Bulge in No Less Than Victory.

I've left post-Russian Revolution Latvia, from Marguerite Yourcenar's Coup de Grace. Reviewed in my thread...post #139.

I am in 1918 (or therabouts - I'm not exactly sure of the date she was aiming for) Nebraska for My Antonia ... not sure where to next.

#139 - how do you like The Agony and the Ecstasy - that is on the shelves. I LOVED Stone's Van Gogh book Lust for Life.

In an Abbey in northern Italy in 1327 w/William of Baskerville The Name of the Rose. This is medieval mystery on steroids! 8^)

Oh, I loved The Name of the Rose! Even the movie was pretty well done. Gotta love Sean Connery, no matter what!

I've been jumping from:
19th century Yorkshire among the moors with Cathy and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights

early 20th century France among high class courtesans and the men who love them in Cheri

the Roaring Twenties in America and England with various detectives solving murders among the Bright Young Things, in Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties
Whodunnits

ending up in 1930's and 40's New York with Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay watchin them create The Escapist and Luna Moth.

Boy, this time traveling is making me beat. :D

I'm in Scotland and England in the 19th century with Love Me Forever by Johanna Lindsey.

I'm getting ready to hit the American Revoluntionary War in Bernard Cornwell's The Fort

I'm in late 19th century Paris, watching Monsieur Venus torment a beautiful youth.

I'm trying desperately to pare down Mount TBR, so I am reading Regencies like mad! Once I've finished them, they go straight to BookMooch.

Today, I started The Seduction of an English Scoundrel by Jillian Hunter, set in 19th century England, of course! If anyone is interested, I have the three books from The Sherring Cross series listed on BookMooch now: Man of My Dreams, Love Me Forever and The Pursuit. All are set in 19th century England and Scotland.

It's 1755 and I am sailing in and around the Caribbean with Flint and Silver by John Drake. This prequel to Treasure Island is pretty good - lots of swashing and buckling!

I'm in Byzantine Constantinople, hiding among the Genoans as it's being sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and listening in as Baudolino tells his story to Niketas.

It's 1704 and I am sailing to the new french colony of Louisiana with the casket girls, who are being sent as brides for the colonists in Clare Clark's Savage Lands.

In the Aztec empire before the Spanish in the middle of a mystery with The Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard. Has magic, and evil gods.

With Edward IV and Richard III in The Sunne in Splendour and with Jamie and Claire in 1743 as I spend the winter in Scotland rereading Outlander.

#175 - ddelmoni - you're reading two of my all time favorite books!

#176:ktlryrd -- Sunne is rapidly becoming one of my favorites too! Outlander has been, and I really need to spend winter in Scotland again! This is only my second time through the Outlander series, will probably get through at least the first 4. I really missed a lot of fore shadowing the first time reading book 1.

I'm on a Vietnamese hill in 1968 while reading Matterhorn. It's wrenching. Surprising me with its excellent evocation of boredom, fear, and squalor intermingling to make life a living hell.

#178 - I read Matterhorn a few weeks ago - one of, if not the, best read of the year for me.

Right now I am floating around in the Regency Period with Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer. I have been experiencing a slight reading slump and I am counting on her clever, witty writing and elegant romance to pull me out of it.

>179 DeltaQueen50: A peak reading experience, for sure and certain.

I've finally posted a review of Matterhorn in my thread...post #41.

Finished invading Europe in mid 13th C with the Golden Horde in Conn Iggulden's Khan: Empire of Silver, an ARC on which I posted a brief review. I'll be putting up a more lengthy one as the publication date gets closer. Moving on to 5C BC Greece with Latro in the Mist by Gene Wolf.

>181 MarysGirl: A very well-made brief review, and thumbs-upped by me. Thanks!

Good review of Matterhorn Richard. It's definitely one of those books you start to read for the story, but come away at the end with a whole new mindset. All the things the we humans have learned and accomplished and yet we still put a gun in the hands of a young boy and send him off to kill or be killed. Tragic.

>183 DeltaQueen50: Why, thank you! I am pleased that you got the same take-away that I did. It's such a fantastic piece of work. It isn't often, no matter how much I like a book, that I call it an artwork. Matterhorn truly is.

>182 richardderus: Thanks so much for the kind comments and thumps-up, richardderus!

I'm in 1784 (for the time being) in France in Mistress of the Revolution.

I'm in 1951 with Lord Peter Wimsey - now Duke of Denver- and his wife Harriet Vane as the investigate The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh, based on the characters by Dorothy Sayers

At Bury St. Edmunds in 1447 where Parliament is being held w/both Dame Frevisse & Joliffe The Bastards Tale. all of the people around the young King Henry VI are jockeying for more power to influence him & they will do most anything to achieve it! The British Royal Court is every bit as cut throat as were those Romans inInI, Claudius where bumping off you Momma, brother,or cousin was standard MO. 8^)

Well, I have finally finished reading seven of the Boscastle Family regencies by Jillian Hunter, and now I'm ready for something a little different, as they say!

I am in the 5th century BC with Spartan by Valerio Massimo Manfredi. I just started, so I'm hoping for the best!

I am in Washington in 1861 after the first battle of the Civil War tending to wounded soldiers with My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira

I'm now in 1840 exhuming The Emperor's Body.

I've posted my highly laudatory review of LT author Susanne Alleyn's Palace of Justice in my thread ...post #106.

It's the Art Deco era, 1923-1930! Reading and savoring Island of Demons, a novel about the emergence into Western consciousness of Bali as the "exotic erotic East" of our desirings, by Nigel Barley. Wicked fun.

I'm reading an historical historical novel :) - The Rebel's Daughter by J.G. Woerner, set before and across the Civil War and published in 1899.

I'm in 1793 in Palace of Justice.

I'm in 1786 London with The Anatomy of Ghosts. Just barely started, but it seems like it might be interesting.

Just finished with the Bonner family in Into the Wilderness. I'm no sure where I'm heading next. Could be with The Whiskey Rebels, on board the Mayflower, during the American Revolution in Fort by Bernard Cornwell or Rebel by Bernard Cornwell. The touchstones aren't working on the last two. any suggestions on where to start anyone?

I just left Spain in the late 1400's with the Inquisition in The Last Jew If you can believe it (because I read 75% historical fiction), I'm going to a regular novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter.

In late 19th century, visiting with the Count Dracula.

Now in 5th century Rome with Attila. Really enjoying it so far!

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I didn't really enjoy The Memory Keeper's Daughter very much...I hope you like it better than I did!

Getting ready to head back to Sherwood in Lady of Sherwood by Jennifer Roberson. I may then head to the American revolution in 1776.

I just started The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory.

ooops, looks like I won't be heading Sherwood right now after all. I guess I'll head to the American Revolution. I guess I didn't pick up the book from the library in time and they sent it back to the other branch!

I've reviewed Island of Demons by Nigel Barley in my thread......post #165.

Wonderful! Bali in the 1920s and 1930s, the waning days of the Dutch Empire, the bare beginnings of the modern tourist tidal wave, and cameos by Charlie Chaplin, Margaret Mead, and many others. Has the huge advantage of being soundly based on real events.

Just spent some very quality time in post-Korean War South Korea watching a fictional coup unfold in The Innocent by Richard E. Kim.

In the Middle Ages (again) w/ Dame Frevisse in 1448 The Hunter's Tale -she is fast becoming my favorite female sleuth in a nun's habit, Dame Fidelma hasn't as good a sense of humor unfortunately!
I mostly get Margaret Frazer's books from the library but unfortunately they seem to have only the most recent titles & finding the earlier ones is proving rather difficult indeed! May have to resort to the out-of-print search in order to track them down.

P.S.: Just realized that I have now been an LTer for 4 years now as of 30 Dec 2010!
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Happy Thingaversary, Vanye!

Heck, it's more than hafway through the first day of 2011 (my time), so I went on and started a new When Are You Now? thread.

I am reading The Eagle and the Raven by Pauline Gedge which puts me in 1st century Britain. I am loving this book.

Having just left Vespasian's Rome (79AD) in Nemesis by Lindsey Davis followed by Bristol in the 1320s through The Oath by Michael Jecks, I am now firmly ensconsed in Dark Ages Rome (609AD) whilst reading Richard Blake's Conspiracies of Rome

Cheers

I'm in post-WWI rural England at a boys' school in To Serve Them All My Days.

I recently finished Siege by Jack Hight putting me in Constantinople in 1453 and then in Fatimid Cairo through Lion of Cairo by Scott Oden and now I am in Norman Italy reading the second in Jack Ludlow's Conquest series Warriors

Cheers