Hi! I just joined. I love to read, esp. Historical Fiction - but I do go through "spells" where I read other subject areas. I hope to get some "good reads"...
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Stephen Copson
xvc85@xxxx.xxxxx.xxxx
May 3, 1999 3:26 pm
Welcome Sharon; hope you'll enjoy our discussions. We have been a very quiet list this last week or so - all too busy reading? - but other times we are very...
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Hilary_A_Wiek@xxxxxxx...
May 3, 1999 12:19 pm
I have actually gotten a lot of reading done, lately, but not of a very high level nature. I had my very last exams last Wednesday for my MBA, and now I am ...
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Sharon Shearouse
shearsh@xxxxxx.xxxx
May 3, 1999 10:52 pm
... Montfort. I'm looking for the next book in this lne called 'The Reckoning' and is about Llewelyn ap Gruffydd. The Welsh names are a trip to try to figure...
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Shellelr@xxx.xxx
May 4, 1999 12:22 am
In a message dated 5/3/99 6:52:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, shearsh@... writes: << What is everyone else reading just now? >> Welcome, Sharon, and all...
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sstarker
sstarker@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
May 4, 1999 4:55 am
Welcome Sharon. My recent reading included The World is Not Enough, about the 2nd and 3rd crusades, by Zoe Oldenbourg. The picture it paints of this...
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Shirley Skinner
sgs11_98@xxxxx.xxxx
May 4, 1999 11:49 am
Well, fiction reading is off the menu for the next month for me, although I am reading a lot of *history*! Currently ploughing through books on Charlemagne to...
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Shellelr@xxx.xxx
May 4, 1999 4:59 pm
In a message dated 5/4/99 7:51:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, sgs11_98@... writes: << Shelle, I've just come back from a weekend in Cornwall (attending my...
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Dian Fielding
lyricall23@xxxxx.xxxx
May 4, 1999 7:39 pm
Belinda: Could you please let me have the titles of the Mantlemass series. I've been meaning to search for these for awhile (all seem to be O/P) & I'd like to...
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Sharon Shearouse
shearsh@xxxxxx.xxxx
May 4, 1999 8:59 pm
... author that really got me hooked on historical fiction. Having Scottish ancestors I also pick up a book just because it's about Scotland or Scottish ...
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Sharon Shearouse
shearsh@xxxxxx.xxxx
May 4, 1999 9:19 pm
... Dian. ... the ... story ... in ... year, ... Speak. . . It sounds great. I'm a Computer Education Technician at a local Elementary School with 1 teenage...
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Stephen Copson
xvc85@xxxx.xxxxx.xxxx
May 5, 1999 5:29 am
Dian, There are eight Mantlemass novels plus a book of short stories. The reading order is different from the publishing order as some were written...
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Shellelr@xxx.xxx
May 4, 1999 9:44 pm
In a message dated 5/4/99 3:38:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, lyricall23@... writes: << I'm rereading We Speak No Treason & enjoying it immensely for...
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Shellelr@xxx.xxx
May 4, 1999 9:47 pm
In a message dated 5/4/99 4:59:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, shearsh@... writes: << I agree that Kathrine by A. Seton was an excellent book. Seton is...
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Hilary_A_Wiek@...
May 5, 1999 11:37 am
<<Oh, boy, I feel some Outlander recommendations brewing out there! Hilary? You're usually quite eloquent on this subject!>> How about this: don't read...
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FLPORCH@xxx.xxx
May 5, 1999 8:32 pm
In a message dated 5/5/99 6:36:56 AM Central Daylight Time, Hilary_A_Wiek@... writes: << These books (by Diana Gabaldon) will make you friends for...
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Sharon Shearouse
shearsh@xxxxxx.xxxx
May 6, 1999 12:31 am
... the ... Scottish ... Love them!! Or is it really "Jamie" we all love?? Sharon---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ... ...
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Sharon Shearouse
shearsh@xxxxxx.xxxx
May 6, 1999 12:34 am
... an ... didn't have it. They had other books by the same author so I checked out one. I guess I'll have to look further afield for We Speak No Treason....
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Shellelr@xxx.xxx
May 6, 1999 1:33 am
In a message dated 5/5/99 8:35:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, shearsh@... writes: << I guess I'll have to look further afield for We Speak No Treason....
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Shellelr@xxx.xxx
May 11, 1999 5:06 pm
Interesting, but not sure if this is all true -- someone posted it on the "England Dreams" list. Shelle Most people got married in June because they took their...
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Stephen Copson
xvc85@xxxx.xxxxx.xxxx
May 12, 1999 3:18 am
Sorry to tell you Shelle, but none of it is true - at least, not in this form! I'm afraid this is a joke that is going the rounds; I've seen it on 3 lists...
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Stephen Copson
xvc85@xxxx.xxxxx.xxxx
May 12, 1999 3:36 am
I'm now launched into Dorothy Dunnett's Niccolo Rising; really enjoying it now I have got past the rather slow start. Rather pleasing when historical...
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FLPORCH@xxx.xxx
May 11, 1999 8:49 pm
In a message dated 5/11/99 12:07:27 PM Central Daylight Time, Shellelr@... writes: << dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs lived in the...
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Shellelr@xxx.xxx
May 11, 1999 9:20 pm
In a message dated 5/11/99 4:02:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, xvc85@... writes: << Also just found a copy of The Witch of Blackbird Pond (witch trial...
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Shellelr@xxx.xxx
May 11, 1999 9:22 pm
In a message dated 5/11/99 4:02:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, xvc85@... writes: << Sorry to tell you Shelle, but none of it is true - at least, not...
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Shellelr@xxx.xxx
May 11, 1999 9:23 pm
In a message dated 5/11/99 4:50:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, FLPORCH@... writes: << << dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs lived in the...
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Shirley Skinner
sgs11_98@xxxxx.xxxx
May 12, 1999 8:29 am
... This is, as I've said before, my summer task/treat! I just have to get through my exams first ... ... Looking forward to reading this, Belinda! I have ...
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Dian Fielding
lyricall23@xxxxx.xxxx
May 12, 1999 1:35 pm
Belinda: Thanks so much for the info on the Mantlemass series. Thanks to ABE, I have the first three on the way to me in inexpensive paper editions (I love...
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Stephen Copson
xvc85@xxxx.xxxxx.xxxx
May 12, 1999 8:40 pm
Shelle, I have looked out for W S N Treason at my library but they don't have a shelved copy; I think I will have to order it from another library. It's...
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Stephen Copson
xvc85@xxxx.xxxxx.xxxx
May 12, 1999 8:45 pm
Glad I'm not alone in doing this, Shirley! I recently bought 2 spare copies of Cross Stitch (Gabaldon) because they had different cover pictures from mine, I...
