Book frenzy!!
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dangermousieRecent scouring of amazon for period novels brought forth the following:
1. I cannot resist any book involving Rupert of the Rhine. I blame reading Margaret Irwin's The Stranger Prince during my formative years. I mean, normally I at least read the reviews first before buying a book, but throw in "Rupert, civil war, battles, and some romance" and I click "purchase" like a Pavlovian dog.
2. There is apparently a whole sub genre of novels about ladies who married Elizabeth I's boyfriends. Ummm...
3. It is impossible to find a good pirate novel that doesn't involve heaving bosoms and coy references to fleshly swords. I love romance novels but seriously - just one (in print, available on Kindle) pirate novel that doesn't fall into that genre, please! I can find few scenarios less appealing that being stuck, seasick, with a man who likely has both a death warrant and pubic lice.
4. I am still obsessed with reading books on Richard III but remain confused by the "did he off the princes in the tower" fixation books about him have (good or bad) - umm, he could have, who cares? Medieval (and after) kings were all a nasty lot and did a lot worse to stay in power - look at Henry VIII wholesale rooting out of anyone with any claim to the crown or the whole Richard II/Henry IV thing.
1. I cannot resist any book involving Rupert of the Rhine. I blame reading Margaret Irwin's The Stranger Prince during my formative years. I mean, normally I at least read the reviews first before buying a book, but throw in "Rupert, civil war, battles, and some romance" and I click "purchase" like a Pavlovian dog.
2. There is apparently a whole sub genre of novels about ladies who married Elizabeth I's boyfriends. Ummm...
3. It is impossible to find a good pirate novel that doesn't involve heaving bosoms and coy references to fleshly swords. I love romance novels but seriously - just one (in print, available on Kindle) pirate novel that doesn't fall into that genre, please! I can find few scenarios less appealing that being stuck, seasick, with a man who likely has both a death warrant and pubic lice.
4. I am still obsessed with reading books on Richard III but remain confused by the "did he off the princes in the tower" fixation books about him have (good or bad) - umm, he could have, who cares? Medieval (and after) kings were all a nasty lot and did a lot worse to stay in power - look at Henry VIII wholesale rooting out of anyone with any claim to the crown or the whole Richard II/Henry IV thing.
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Date: 2012-07-25 02:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-25 03:05 pm (UTC)Yeah, the propaganda is obnoxious but I guess I wouldn't hold it against him even if he did kill the princes because medieval monarch doesn't share modern morality. Man made a good king and was at least as honorable as your average medieval nobleman, so I don't know - I guess I am trying to say I'd love him whether he killed the princes or not.
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Date: 2012-07-25 03:10 pm (UTC)Anyway...on to pirates! Have you read "Frenchman's Creek" by Daphne du Maurier? It is kind of a romance, but not the heaving bosoms kind.
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Date: 2012-07-25 03:12 pm (UTC)Richard never had the time to confirm or deny - he only reigned for a few years. Who knows how the issue would have come up (or not) if he ruled for twenty.
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Date: 2012-07-25 03:19 pm (UTC)And that is what makes it such a great mystery! The whole 'what if' of the situation. The whole thing just fascinates me; add into that the whole Tudor propaganda and it's just a whole big pile of we will never know. Love it! :)
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Date: 2012-07-25 03:39 pm (UTC)But for some reason my attention span has been SO SHORT that I can't even finish the first page. :(
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Date: 2012-07-25 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-25 03:46 pm (UTC)*sporfle*
Have you read Captain Blood? I haven't read it myself, but I hear it's the pirate novel.
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Date: 2012-07-25 05:00 pm (UTC)Or, Johanna Lindsey's pirate books.
Or, Laurie McBain.
Or, Kathleen Woodiwiss' Shana which is not strictly a pirate book but there are pirates.
All the above are 80's historical novels so the hero's are pure alpha and there's some non-con and other stuff. I used to love pirate romances and there were lots and lots but other than the above, I can't remember a single author.
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Date: 2012-07-25 08:11 pm (UTC)Have you ever read any of Susanna Kearsley's books? Hers aren't really historical so much as time travel (The Rose Garden, probably my favorite and so wonderfully romantic) or reincarnation (Mariana, also good) or past-life memories (The Winter Sea, ALSO also good), but she manages to do it in a non-cheesy, non-hokey way that I love. She has one coming out next spring called The Firebird that has characters from The Winter Sea and is set partly in Russia, and I can't wait to read it!
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Date: 2012-07-25 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-26 06:51 pm (UTC)weird. I barely care about Elizabeth's boyfriends when she's dating them, let alone when they're with other people. (For some reason I can't peg, I've never really been interested in Leicester, even though usually I'd be all over a forbidden love story like theirs.)
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Date: 2012-07-27 01:25 am (UTC)