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8:33 am
January 17, 2011
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STILL reading “Katharine The Virgin Queen” by Jean Plaidy
I'm really struggling with this book, I feel Jean Plaidy is not hitting the mark with this as she's straying away from Katharine most of the time and not concentrating enough on her. What does everyone else think of this book?
8:44 am
November 18, 2010
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MegC said:
@ Tina: We have a Blu-Ray player and I hate it. It worked fine and then suddenly started skipping around on Blu-Rays which are virtually unscratchable. DVDs still work fine, but why would I want a fancy DVD player? Maybe Blu-Ray players have gotten better in the past couple of years, but I really hate mine. We even put our BRAND NEW copy of Inception in the player and it started skipping. Did I mention that my husband is a computer programmer so we have all kinds of techy stuff around the house?
We got PlayStation 3 because it was a BluRay/DVD player with the added advantage of being able to connect with the wifi network and play from computer drives.
I hvae 2 games for it and have only spent 3 hours in 3 years gaming on it.
It's always bunnies.
9:38 pm
January 9, 2010
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Sophie1536 said:
STILL reading “Katharine The Virgin Queen” by Jean Plaidy
I'm really struggling with this book, I feel Jean Plaidy is not hitting the mark with this as she's straying away from Katharine most of the time and not concentrating enough on her. What does everyone else think of this book?
I've just ordered Jean Plaidy's 'The Pleasures of Love' about Catherine of Braganza and 'The Reluctant Queen' about Anne Neville. I haven't read any of Plaidy's books about KOA, but I'm sorry to hear you're struggling with it 'cos I find Jean Plaidy a pretty good historical novelist – weaving an interesting story whilst STICKING to the facts!
At the moment I'm reading 'A Red Herring Without Mustard' – the third novel in the Flavia De Luce mystery series. Just as funny as the previous two 
2:19 am
November 23, 2010
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Sophie1536 said:
STILL reading “Katharine The Virgin Queen” by Jean Plaidy
I'm really struggling with this book, I feel Jean Plaidy is not hitting the mark with this as she's straying away from Katharine most of the time and not concentrating enough on her. What does everyone else think of this book?
I read this book sometime last year and i must say that i found it a bit slow going and hard to stick too, i persevered though and got through it, but didn't think it was one of the better Jean Plaidy books i had read, there was something about it that just didn't really keep my interest that much
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2:22 am
November 23, 2010
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I am currently reading 'Brief Gaudy Hour' by Margaret Campbell Barnes. I'm quite enjoying it actually even though it is taking me quite a while to read this book. I am just up to the part where Henry & Anne have married, so I am hoping it will pick up a bit of pace now. Has anyone else read this book and if so, what did they think of it?
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9:52 am
April 11, 2011
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Hello Clarebear, Margaret Cambell Barnes was the great historical novelist of her day. I did have this and “The Tudor Rose” (I think that's correct), but my memory doesn't recall much of either. It would be good to go back and read it again just to see how viewpoints have changed over the last 50 years.
2:24 pm
June 7, 2010
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I've finished The Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick. Great novel, but for me, it does not compare to The Greatest Knight.
Just a few minutes ago, I finished Albert Bell Jr.'s Kill Her Again. It's a murder mystery set around an archeological dig in Italy. It was a fun read.
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2:44 pm
January 17, 2011
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“Bomber Boys” by Patrick Bishop
This is my other passion 
I love reading about Bomber Command and anything to do with the RAF in the second WW
I've given up with “Katharine The Virgin Widow” by Jean Plaidy, I've tried so hard to get into this but I felt that Jean Plaidy didn't write that much about Katharine but strayed into the politics of the Spanish court and I wanted to read more about Katharine.
4:45 pm
November 18, 2010
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Anyanka said:
I'm reading Stolen Innocence about a former member of FLDS who was married at 14 and eventually rebels and leaves.
It's fairly sad at times, especially how religon in the hands of some people is distorted.
It's a look at the life of Elissa Wall as a member of FLDS. Her brothers were forced out and her older sisters married to older men. Her birth mother and full-sibs were taken from her father as a punishment and her mother forced into marriage with another man. Elissa was forced into an under-age marriage to her cousin.
Eventually with her brothers being forced out and some of her sisters leaving as well, she begins to rebel. wearing T-shirts and trousers to start with leading to her finding love with another man. With his support, she eventually is persuaded to file a complaint against Warren Jeffs.
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5:15 pm
June 5, 2010
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Bill — I'm not going to put a spoiler space here as I'm just going to say that I read the same thing about Inception and what Nolan had possibly done. All I know is I definitely want to see it again and would even be tempted to buy it for my library.
Let me know about The Shakespeare Secret — like I need another book to tackle right now LOL
Bill1978 said:
I've just started reading The Shakespeare Secret by J.L. Carrell (I think). Most of the time, it takes me a couple of chapters to get into a book, but this one has absorbed me straight away, like a good movie thriller. I just hope that the secret isn't something lame. Now if only the clothes would wash themselves and put themselves away, the hosuework would do itself I could sit down and read the book.
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Henry: Mistress Anne, will you teach the king of England how they dance in the French court?
Anne: There is nothing that France can teach England, your majesty.
King Henry VIII: Well said. Well said.
– Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
5:25 pm
October 31, 2010
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Anyanka said:
MegC said:
@ Tina: We have a Blu-Ray player and I hate it. It worked fine and then suddenly started skipping around on Blu-Rays which are virtually unscratchable. DVDs still work fine, but why would I want a fancy DVD player? Maybe Blu-Ray players have gotten better in the past couple of years, but I really hate mine. We even put our BRAND NEW copy of Inception in the player and it started skipping. Did I mention that my husband is a computer programmer so we have all kinds of techy stuff around the house?
We got PlayStation 3 because it was a BluRay/DVD player with the added advantage of being able to connect with the wifi network and play from computer drives.
I hvae 2 games for it and have only spent 3 hours in 3 years gaming on it.
I so wish we'd just bought a PS3…we almost did and then decided to just get the BluRay player instead, but I've heard great things about how well it handles blu-rays.
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12:03 pm
August 2, 2010
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Has anyone read the Secrets of the Royal Court series by Kate Emerson? I'm currently reading one of the books, By Royal Decree, and I quite like it so far. It's about William Parr's wife, Elizabeth Brooke Parr, and she's a fun main character. I recommend it!
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12:05 pm
August 2, 2010
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Clarebear said:
I am currently reading 'Brief Gaudy Hour' by Margaret Campbell Barnes. I'm quite enjoying it actually even though it is taking me quite a while to read this book. I am just up to the part where Henry & Anne have married, so I am hoping it will pick up a bit of pace now. Has anyone else read this book and if so, what did they think of it?
I've read that before, and I actually wasn't that impressed. It was a good novel, and I liked it to an extent, but a bit slow (as you mentined) and peppered with historical inaccuracies. For instance, Barnes mistakes the color of mourning for black, when it is in fact white, and says that Anne's mother Elizabeth died and her father Thomas married a second time, to a woman named Jocunda, if I remember properly. Clarebear, I'd love to know what you think about it at the end!
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12:08 pm
November 18, 2010
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I've got them on order. I'm looking forward to reading them. eta…The Secrets of the Royal Court series.
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12:25 pm
November 18, 2010
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Boleynfan said:
Clarebear said:
I am currently reading 'Brief Gaudy Hour' by Margaret Campbell Barnes. I'm quite enjoying it actually even though it is taking me quite a while to read this book. I am just up to the part where Henry & Anne have married, so I am hoping it will pick up a bit of pace now. Has anyone else read this book and if so, what did they think of it?
I've read that before, and I actually wasn't that impressed. It was a good novel, and I liked it to an extent, but a bit slow (as you mentined) and peppered with historical inaccuracies. For instance, Barnes mistakes the color of mourning for black, when it is in fact white, and says that Anne's mother Elizabeth died and her father Thomas married a second time, to a woman named Jocunda, if I remember properly. Clarebear, I'd love to know what you think about it at the end!
I read it when I was younger and somethings irriated me about it. It's sat on my wish-list ATM since I loved My Lady of Cleves. I think I'll keep it there until I need to buy something to get free shipping.
But yeah! the whole second wife was very jarring.
It's always bunnies.
1:44 pm
June 5, 2010
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Well a new shipment of books came in yesterday — Gone with the Wind wasn't one of them but it should arrive on Monday. But here's what was in the box and they're sort of all over the place.
Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant For Lincoln's Corpse by James Swanson (who also wroe Manhunt about the hunt for John Wilkes Booth)
Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland by Susan Fraser King
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook For Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer
Elizabeth I: A Novel by Margaret George (who also wrote The Autobiography of Henry VIII)
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth I by Helen Castor
And they threw in a free book called Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel, which is a total mystery to me.
Anyway, they will go in the ever growing stack with the other books I own and looks like the rest of 2011 is going to be filled with book reading.
Henry: Mistress Anne, will you teach the king of England how they dance in the French court?
Anne: There is nothing that France can teach England, your majesty.
King Henry VIII: Well said. Well said.
– Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
2:30 pm
June 5, 2010
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MegC said:
@ Tina: We have a Blu-Ray player and I hate it. It worked fine and then suddenly started skipping around on Blu-Rays which are virtually unscratchable. DVDs still work fine, but why would I want a fancy DVD player? Maybe Blu-Ray players have gotten better in the past couple of years, but I really hate mine. We even put our BRAND NEW copy of Inception in the player and it started skipping. Did I mention that my husband is a computer programmer so we have all kinds of techy stuff around the house?
Oh I hate hearing that MegC! Now one friend did suggest that I could also check into a Playstation but the quality seems to be a bit different than what you would get with a normal Blu-ray. And knowing that you all are tech saavy makes me know that it's not just some glitch with the owner. I'm not the most tech saavy of people, but I defnitely know one thing — how to shop around and research things before plunking down the cash. I'm going to continue researching them before I buy one, but with three of my all-time favorite movies on Blu-Ray (The Ten Commandments, Master and Commander, Metropolis) I'm tempted more than ever. Thanks for the caveat emptor though
PS: And Inception is one of the movies I want to get!!
Henry: Mistress Anne, will you teach the king of England how they dance in the French court?
Anne: There is nothing that France can teach England, your majesty.
King Henry VIII: Well said. Well said.
– Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
9:08 am
February 24, 2010
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TinaII2None said:
Well a new shipment of books came in yesterday — Gone with the Wind wasn't one of them but it should arrive on Monday. But here's what was in the box
Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant For Lincoln's Corpse by James Swanson (who also wroe Manhunt about the hunt for John Wilkes Booth)
Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland by Susan Fraser King
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook For Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer
Elizabeth I: A Novel by Margaret George (who also wrote The Autobiography of Henry VIII)
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth I by Helen Castor
And they threw in a free book called Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel, which is a total mystery to me.
Anyway, they will go in the ever growing stack with the other books I own and looks like the rest of 2011 is going to be filled with book reading.
Tina, I have read Queen Hereafter . Excellent book. Another of Ms. King's books you should get is Lady MacBeth. It should be read first, but either way you will enjoy them.
10:40 am
June 5, 2010
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MegC said:
Anyanka said:
MegC said:
@ Tina: We have a Blu-Ray player and I hate it. It worked fine and then suddenly started skipping around on Blu-Rays which are virtually unscratchable. DVDs still work fine, but why would I want a fancy DVD player? Maybe Blu-Ray players have gotten better in the past couple of years, but I really hate mine. We even put our BRAND NEW copy of Inception in the player and it started skipping. Did I mention that my husband is a computer programmer so we have all kinds of techy stuff around the house?
We got PlayStation 3 because it was a BluRay/DVD player with the added advantage of being able to connect with the wifi network and play from computer drives.
I hvae 2 games for it and have only spent 3 hours in 3 years gaming on it.
I so wish we'd just bought a PS3…we almost did and then decided to just get the BluRay player instead, but I've heard great things about how well it handles blu-rays.
A PS is tempting because I don't own a game system and it might be nice to have one. And then I'd have the duel Blu-Ray system in addition to that. Oh well, I can see that on the horizon as a possible Christmas gift to myself
Henry: Mistress Anne, will you teach the king of England how they dance in the French court?
Anne: There is nothing that France can teach England, your majesty.
King Henry VIII: Well said. Well said.
– Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
10:47 am
June 5, 2010
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Sharon said:
Tina, I have read Queen Hereafter . Excellent book. Another of Ms. King's books you should get is Lady MacBeth. It should be read first, but either way you will enjoy them.
Thanks for the recommendation! I had heard there was a “prequel.” I almost ordered Lady Macbeth when I placed my order for GWTW, but I figured I might be able to tackle Queen Hereafter without having to do so. But I'm looking forward to QH down the road. I ran across an article on Queen Margaret a month or so back and she sounded like such an incredible woman that I was glad to see that someone had written a novel on her.
PS: And one day it'll be nice to read a non-Shakespeare version of Lady Macbeth too.
Henry: Mistress Anne, will you teach the king of England how they dance in the French court?
Anne: There is nothing that France can teach England, your majesty.
King Henry VIII: Well said. Well said.
– Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
