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It's time for our challenge! Each month, a new post dedicated to the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge will be created. Let's remember the rules:
- everyone can participate, even those who don't have a blog (you can add your book title and thoughts in the comment section if you wish)
- add the link(s) of your review(s) including your name and book title to the Mister Linky we’ll be adding to our monthly post (please, do not add your blog link, but the correct address that will guide us directly to your review)
- any kind of historical fiction is accepted (fantasy, young adult, graphic novels...)
I really like reading this one,,and am looking forward to the other 2 in the series..I have always liked Susan Carroll. I would recommend reading her books to anyone who likes historical fiction with a little magic in it..
ReplyDeleteJust finished the first two books in Colleen Coble's series Mercy Falls. Really enjoyed both. Reviews are being posted!
ReplyDeleteFun! Found this thru The Fourth Musketeer.
ReplyDeleteSounds swell but when we are speaking of any historical fiction, can this apply to elementary age chapter books set in the past.
Many thanks for your answer.
Got my first review posted! Yay!
ReplyDeleteHi All. Just posted my review of Panther in the Sky, by James Alexander Thom, over at Past Perfect blog.
ReplyDeleteJust finished Kathleen Kent's Wolves of Andover - quite a disappointment unfortunately. I loved her first book.
ReplyDeleteMy entry to this one is actually some thing like a warm-up, because I started to read the book before I signed in for the challenge.. ;")
ReplyDeleteJust posted a review of Darcy's Voyage by Kara Louise, a very enjoyable retelling of Pride and Prejudice.
ReplyDeleteHave completed my first historical fiction novel of the year - Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman - and have posted a review on my blog.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the alphabet challenge? I can't find letter X, which should have appeared Jan. 1?
ReplyDeleteReview up, book #1 for 2011 was a serious dud.
ReplyDeleteApparently I can't type today, LOL! 1st book for this challenge was a re-read of Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron.
ReplyDeleteThis past week I read The Toll-Gate by Georgette Heyer and Young Master Darcy by Pamela Aidan. Next up is I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend. I'm afflicted with more than severe bookaholism!
ReplyDeleteJust posted my review of India Black on my blog. It was a wonderful fast paced novel and I highly recommend it.
ReplyDeleteI posted my review of Dark Fire - C.J. Sansom yesterday, 01/12/2011
ReplyDelete- the second in the historical mystery series set in Tudor England (1540s London).
yahoo! 1st challenge review posted :oD 1 down, 19 to go, haha :o)
ReplyDeleteWhen a favorite author of mine (Susanna Kearsley) wrote an article on her blog about one of her favorite authors that influenced her writing (Jan Cox Speas), I had to check out the recommended books. Bride of the MacHugh was more historical fiction than historical romance, so don't let the cover put you off.
ReplyDeleteYou can definitely see similarities in the way both authors craft a story with vivid historical details and subtle romance. I plan on reading two more books by Jan Cox Speas.
Just posted my first review for the challenge, By Fire, By Water, here: http://lifeand100books.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/3-a-review-of-by-fire-by-water-by-mitchell-james-kaplan-and-a-giveaway/
ReplyDeleteI'm also giving the book away if anyone is interested. Good luck to those who enter!
--Kim
My review of Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay has been posted. Great book!
ReplyDeleteKat @ A Journey in Reading
Just wrote about Sandra Mitchell's The Vespertine, which I *loved*. I loved her first book, I'm a sucker for Spiritualism stories as well as Gothics, so there's really no surprise there!
ReplyDeleteI posted my first review for the Challenge on 21/1/2011 The Flight of the Falcon Daphne du Maurier
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey, and my review is linked above. :)
ReplyDeleteI just posted my link for my review of "The Masque of the Black Tulip" which is actually the third historical I have read this month so far. The other two were reviewed earlier on my blog--"The Exile" by Diana Gabaldon (a graphic novel) and "The Secret History of the Pink Carnation" (the first of the Lauren Willig spy series of which "Masque" is second).
ReplyDeleteI'm loving this series so I intend to complete the Lauren Willig challenge over at http://historicallyobsessed.blogspot.com/p/pink-carnation-rc.html and hope some of you will join us there ;-)
Somehow missed leaving a comment when I added last week's review. Oh, well. I just put up my review of Andre Norton's Civil War novel Ride Proud, Rebel! - last week's was Tiger Eye, a Western by B.M. Bower.
ReplyDeleteTwo books so far. The Queen of Last Hopes by Susan Higginbotham and The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon. (Reviews coming soon)
ReplyDeleteWe Hear the Dead, a fictionalized accound of the Fox sisters story. More spiritualism! Love that movement, for some reason. Just so fascinating.
ReplyDeleteReview on The Privilege of the Sword is up. It my first for the challenge! :D
ReplyDeleteI just finished my second historical fiction book of the year, Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwarz.
ReplyDeleteI am thinking I will have this completed by end of February at this rate :)
ReplyDeleteI have reviewed two historical fantasies: Daughter of the Forest and Son of the Shadows.
ReplyDeleteMy first two challenge reviews are up. Thanks for this challenge-- for the opportunity to see what other HF fans are reading and thinking!
ReplyDeleteBetter late than never!
ReplyDeleteI love historical fiction so this challenge looks like a lot of fun! I will have my first review up soon!
ReplyDeleteI think you need a category beyond severe bookaholism: Here are the HF books that I have read so far in 2011:
ReplyDelete1)The Game by Laurie R. King
2)For You Alone by Susan Kaye
3)Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer
4)Cousin Kate by Georgette Heyer
5)The Reluctant Widow by G. Heyer
6)There Must Be Murder by Margaret Sullivan
7)The Other Mr. Darcy by Monica Fairview
8)None But You by Susan Kaye
9-13)Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, Jane and the Man of the Cloth, Jane and the Stillroom Maid, Jane and the Genius of the Place, and Jane and the Wandering Eye, all by Stephanie Barron.
Maybe you should have separate categories for those of us who don't have review blogs- we can read a lot faster when we don't have to write a review, although I am keeping my books, ratings and comments on Goodreads to keep track.
ReplyDeleteDamn...I botched my link - The Distant Hours leads to Naked Cruelty. Sorry!
ReplyDeleteDo you not have a post for February Reviews of the Historical Fiction Challenge?
ReplyDeleteYes, I am also ready to post a February link.
ReplyDeleteJanuary's book, although the review was not written up until earlier this month was A Place of Secrets by Rachel Hore http://anglersrest.blogspot.com/2011/02/place-of-secrets-by-rachel-hore_07.html
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know when a February post is being set up?
ReplyDeleteI'm re-linking my January reviews again today, after already posting in January...apparently they were lost.
ReplyDeleteKim, the February review link is in the right-hand sidebar under the HF Challenge Logo.
Just finished my twenty books for the historical fiction challenge. They can be found on my Goodreads HF Challenge page:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.goodreads.com/review/list/3582747-carey-bligard?shelf=historical-fiction-challenge
My two titles for January were read in January, but I did not review them until March 1st (I know...darn procrastinator!). I keep track of the dates I finish books in my planner. Anyway, both books are reviewed in the same post. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThere is not forum for March, so I posted in January. I am a little behind on my historical fiction reading, but I still should be fine to read 20 by December.
ReplyDeleteI LOVED The Romeo and Juliet Code. I even wrote an e-mail to the author to tell her how much!
Ugh, I posted this so late! But it still applies I hope! I have been very negligent to updating my blog these days! I blame it on the last semester of law school being an awful, awful time ... forgive?
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Four books for January:
ReplyDeleteThe Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy, by Mary Lydon Simonsent
Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, by Stephanie Barron
There Must Be Murder, by Margaret C. Sullivan
The Orchid Affair, by Lauren Willig
All 4 or 5 star reads!
My first HF for the challenge was The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, and I gave it three stars on my review.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe C. Pierson has read 13 already! Wow, impressive!
I love Sara Poole's protagonist. She has a dark side which is a welcome relief from the usual female heroine. Highly recommended.
ReplyDeleteBook #2 The Butterfly Cabinet
ReplyDeleteBook #3 - Lady of the Rivers
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