Lost in Austen
by Emma Campbell Webster

For the A-Z reading challenge.
English
348 pages
Riverhead Books
ISBN: 978-1-59448-258-8
First line: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young Austen heroine must be in want of a husband, and you are no exception.
Back cover blurb:
Your name: Elizabeth Bennet. Your mission: to marry both prudently and for love, avoiding family scandal. [...]

Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, C, English, Historical, Romance | 1 Comment »

Standish
by Erastes

For the Back to History reading challenge.
English
215 pages
P.D. Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1-933720-09-3
First line: The candle guttered, and Ambrose looked up at it with a frown, the long blond hair falling away from the sides of his face.
Back cover blurb:
A great house. A family dispossessed. A sensitive young man. A powerful landowner. An epic love [...]

Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Back to History, D, English, GLBT interest, Historical, Romance | 2 Comments »

Duty and Desire
by Pamela Aidan

For the A-Z reading challenge.
English
304 pages
Touchstone
ISBN: 978-0-7432-9136-1
First line: Darcy recited the collect for the first Sunday in Advent, his prayer book closed upon his thumb as he stood alone in his family’s pew at St. ——’s.
Back cover blurb:
Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice is beloved by millions, but little [...]

Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, C, English, Historical, Romance | 5 Comments »

Murder Must Advertise
by Dorothy L Sayers

For the Decades ‘08 reading challenge (first published 1933).
English
356 pages
Harper Mystery
ISBN: 978-0-06-104355-0
First line: “And by the way,” said Mr. Hankin, arresting Miss Rossiter as she rose to go, “there is a new copy-writer coming in today.”
Back cover blurb:
When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices [...]

Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A, Decades '08, English, Historical, Mystery | 5 Comments »

A Countess Below Stairs
by Eva Ibbotson

For the Back to History and A-Z reading challenges.
English
383 pages
Speak
ISBN: 978-0-14-240865-0
First line: In the fabled, glittering world that was St. Petersburg before the First World War there lived, in an ice-blue palace overlooking the river Neva, a family on whom the gods seemed to have lavished their gifts with [...]

Posted on February 10th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A, A-Z Reading Challenge, Back to History, English, Historical, Romance | 4 Comments »

Clouds of Witness
by Dorothy L Sayers

For the A-Z reading challenge.
English
279 pages
Harper Mystery
ISBN: 978-0-06-104353-6
First line: Lord Peter Wimsey stretched himself luxuriously between the sheets provided by the Hôtel Meurice.
Back cover blurb:
Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thrill of the hunt—until the game turned up human and [...]

Posted on February 10th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, B, English, Historical, Mystery | 2 Comments »

By a Lady
by Amanda Elyot

English
372 pages
Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 1-4000-9799-1
First line: “It’s beautiful,” C.J. murmured, examining the curiously pockmarked amber cross.
Back cover blurb:
New York actress C.J. Welles, a die-hard Jane Austen fan, is on the verge of landing her dream role: portraying her idol in a Broadway play. But during her final audition, she is [...]

Posted on February 7th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Chick lit, English, F, Historical, Romance | 1 Comment »

Whose Body?
by Dorothy L Sayers

For the Decades ‘08 (first published 1923), First in a Series and A-Z reading challenges.
English
212 pages
Harper Mystery
ISBN: 978-0-06-104357-4
First line: “Oh damn!” said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus.
Back cover blurb:
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder [...]

Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A, A-Z Reading Challenge, Decades '08, English, First in a Series, Historical, Mystery | 3 Comments »

Some Danger Involved
by Will Thomas

For the Back to History and A-Z reading challenges.
English
302 pages
Touchstone
ISBN: 978-0-7432-5619-3
First line: If someone had told me, those many years ago, that I would spend the bulk of my life as assistant and eventual partner to one of the most eminent detectives in London, I would have thought him a [...]

Posted on January 7th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, B, Back to History, English, Historical, Mystery | 1 Comment »

An Assembly Such as This
by Pamela Aidan

For the First in a Series, Back to History and A-Z reading challenges.
English
256 pages
Touchstone
ISBN: 978-0-7432-9134-7
First line: Fitzwilliam George Alexander Darcy rose from his seat in the Bingley carriage and reluctantly descended to earth before the assembly hall above the only inn to which the small market town of [...]

Posted on January 5th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, B, Back to History, English, First in a Series, Historical, Romance | 4 Comments »