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I've hit the jackpot with some of my recent choices.

 

I highly recommend:

 

War Brides - Helen Bryan

The Bloodletter's Daughter - Linda Lafferty

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - Katherine Howe

 

All were very good.

 

I'm currently reading Monuments Men, but I'm not really into it.



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I read The Help a couple years ago when the movie was coming out. My mom read it and my Grandmother. My Grandmother grew up during that time period in that area so she says she thinks she knows some of the families they were referring to. Heck she might have been one of them. They were not the richy richest around but they were one of the more known and respected families in that area which is a small town outside Memphis. My mom had a black maid/nanny that she adored. Just like the kids in the book.

I am reading "Hollow City" which is the sequel to "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children". The first book was very good and they might make it into a movie. Tim Burton was hinting at wanting to direct it since it is very his style.

Before that I read "PenPal" which is a creepy pasta type story that originated on Reddit. Then became a book. It was scary. If you are into the whole spooky internet stories you would love it.

Also read Stephen King's "Joy land" It was very good. I loved it. I love carny lore and backstage at amusement parks so it had a lot of that in it.

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What are the first two books you listed about? They sound interesting

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In the fantasy area, I just finished "A Study in Darkness" by Emma Jane Holloway. www.amazon.com/Study-Silks-The-Baskerville-Affair/dp/0345537181

I really enjoyed it. I think that Steampunk fiction is going to be the "new thing" - I think urban fantasy is winding down a bit. It's pretty over saturated with vampires and vampire slayers.

Non fiction I am reading about the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak.
"America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918" by Alfred W. Crosby

"Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It" by Gina Kolata

It killed an estimated 20 to 100 million people world wide, and about 500,000 in the US.

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War Brides

by Helen Bryan (Goodreads Author)

3.54 of 5 stars3.54 · rating details · 9,817 ratings · 1,661 reviews

With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the sleepy village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tightening vice of rationing curtails every comfort. Men leave to fight and die. And five women forge an unlikely bond of friendship that will change their lives forever. Alice Osbourne, the stolid daughter of the late vicar, is reeling from the news that Richard Fairfax broke their engagement to marry Evangeline Fontaine, an American girl from the Deep South. Evangeline's arrival causes a stir in the village?but not the chaos that would ensue if they knew her motives for being there. Scrappy Elsie Pigeon is among the poor of London who see the evacuations as a chance to escape a life of destitution. Another new arrival is Tanni Zayman, a young Jewish girl who fled the horrors of Europe and now waits with her newborn son, certain that the rest of her family is safe and bound to show up any day. And then there's Frances Falconleigh, a madcap, fearless debutante whose father is determined to keep her in the countryside and out of the papers. As the war and its relentless hardships intensify around them, the same struggles that threaten to rip apart their lives also bring the five closer together. They draw strength from one another to defeat formidable enemies?hunger, falling bombs, the looming threat of a Nazi invasion, and a traitor in their midst?and find remarkable strength within themselves to help their friends. Theirs is a war-forged loyalty that will outlast the fiercest battle and endure years and distance. When four of the women return to Crowmarsh Priors for a VE Day celebration fifty years later, television cameras focus on the heartwarming story of these old women as war brides of a bygone age, but miss the more newsworthy angle. The women's mission is not to commemorate or remember?they?ve returned to settle a score and avenge one of their own.

The Bloodletter's Daughter (A Novel of Old Bohemia)

by Linda Lafferty

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Within the glittering Hapsburg court in Prague lurks a darkness of which no one dares speak?

In 1606, the city of Prague shines as a golden mecca of art and culture carefully cultivated by Emperor Rudolf II. But the emperor hides an ugly secret: His bastard son, Don Julius, is afflicted with a madness that pushes the young prince to unspeakable depravity. Desperate to stem his son?s growing number of scandals, the emperor exiles Don Julius to a remote corner of Bohemia where the young man is placed in the care of a bloodletter named Pichler. The bloodletter?s task: cure Don Julius of his madness by purging the vicious humors coursing through his veins.

When Pichler brings his daughter Marketa to assist him, she becomes the object of Don Julius?s frenzied?and dangerous?obsession. To him, she is the embodiment of the women pictured in the Coded Book of Wonder, a priceless manuscript from the imperial library that was the mad prince?s only link to sanity. As the prince descends further into the darkness of his mind, his acts become ever more desperate, as Marketa, both frightened and fascinated, can?t stay away.

Inspired by a real-life murder that threatened to topple the powerful Hapsburg dynasty, The Bloodletter?s Daughter is a dark and richly detailed saga of passion and revenge.


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oooh I think I would like the Bloodletter's Daughter one.

It kinda reminds me of the Phillipa Gregory novels I love to read that are like fiction based on real historical people and events.

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I liked PG's Tudor series, but I wasn't as fond of her War of the Roses one.  Her Wideacre trilogy was awful.



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I am halfway through The House at Riverton. Quite like it so far.

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I don't read (for fun/relaxation) anymore. I just don't have the time.

 

ETA: Last book I read was RE-reading the "Earth's Children" series by Jean M. Auel... in preparation for the final book finally coming out... and then I read reviews of the book (from websites AND Peeps)... and never actually read the final book. That was 3(?) years ago... I think.



-- Edited by RichardInTN on Monday 10th of March 2014 11:13:04 PM

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I really like her Cousins wars books. I have only read one of the Tudors one "The Other Boleyn Girl"

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Fantasy genre: Black Dawn then The Book of the Crowman, by Joseph D'Lacey.

Phenomenal IMO, the type of book where when I have to put it down I obsess over what the characters are doing without me. I raced through both books even though I wanted to savor them but finding out the ending was more important. The characters will stay with me for awhile.

Sci-Fi genre: Fire with Fire, by Charles E Gannon.

An intriguing look at what could happen during out first contact, a bit heavy politically but an enjoyable read.

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