Flambards Divided
by KM Peyton

For the Young Adult and Decades ‘08 (first published 1981) reading challenges.
English
283 pages
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-0-19-257055-6
First line: Christina had dreamed of Will again.
Back cover blurb:
When Christina marries Dick, she hopes that life at Flambards will settle down at last. But the village gossips find it scandalous that she, a rich landowner, [...]

Posted on January 5th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: D, Decades '08, English, Historical, YA Challenge 2008, Young Adult | 1 Comment »

Flambards in Summer
by KM Peyton

For the A-Z Reading Challenge.
English
188 pages
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-0-19-275054-9
First line: The RFC ditty with the sad tune, which Christina had sung several times with Will and his friends when he had been home on leave, would not leave her head.
Back cover blurb:
Widowed at twenty-one, Christina has returned to Flambards to [...]

Posted on January 4th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, C, English, Historical, Young Adult | 2 Comments »

The Edge of the Cloud
by KM Peyton

For the A-Z Reading Challenge.
English
181 pages
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-0-19-275023-5
First line: ‘We’ve eloped,’ Christina said to Aunt Grace.
Back cover blurb:
Christina and Will have escaped Flambards for London with their heads full of dreams, only to find a whole new set of problems. Not only the basic ones of work [...]

Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, C, English, Historical, Young Adult | No Comments »

Flambards
by KM Peyton

For the First in a Series, Young Adult and A-Z reading challenges.
English
220 pages
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-0-19-271955-3
First line: The fox was running easily.
Back cover blurb:
Christina is sent to live with her uncle and his two sons in their country house, Flambards.
She finds her uncle fierce and domineering and her cousin Mark arrogant and [...]

Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, C, English, First in a Series, Historical, YA Challenge 2008, Young Adult | No Comments »

His Majesty’s Dragon
by Naomi Novik

For the Here Be Dragons, First in a Series, Seafaring and A-Z reading challenges.
English
356 pages
Del Rey
ISBN: 978-0-345-48128-3
First line: The deck of the French ship was slippery with blood, heaving in the choppy sea; a stroke might as easily bring down the man making it as the intended target.
Back cover blurb:
Aerial [...]

Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, B, English, Fantasy, First in a Series, Here Be Dragons, Historical, Seafaring Challenge | 7 Comments »

Flying Colours (part of the Admiral Hornblower Omnibus)
by CS Forester

For the End of Year Mini Challenge and the Seafaring Challenge.
English
155 pages
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0-14-011940-X (for the whole Omnibus)
First line: Captain Hornblower was walking up and down along the sector of the ramparts of Rosas, delimited by two sentries with loaded muskets, which the commandant had [...]

Posted on December 31st, 2007 by Love
Filed under: Adventure, B, Classics, English, Historical, Personal challenges, Seafaring Challenge | 2 Comments »

Lord John and the Hand of Devils
by Diana Gabaldon

For the End of Year Mini Challenge.
English
317 pages
Century
ISBN: 978-0-7126-8065-3
First line: Lord John Grey jerked his eyes away from the door.
Back cover blurb:
Diana Gabaldon, the New York Times bestselling author of A Breath of Snow and Ashes, delivers three tales of war, intrigue and espionage featuring the [...]

Posted on December 30th, 2007 by Love
Filed under: B, English, GLBT interest, Historical, Mystery, Personal challenges | No Comments »

The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters

For the End of Year Mini Challenge.
English
506 pages
Virago Press
ISBN: 978-1-84408-241-4
First line: So this, said Kay to herself, is the sort of person you’ve become: a person whose clocks and wrist-watches have stopped, and who tells the time, instead, by the particular kind of cripple arriving at her landlord’s door.
Back cover [...]

Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Love
Filed under: D, English, GLBT interest, Historical, Personal challenges | No Comments »

Darcy’s Story
by Janet Aylmer

English
277 pages
Harper Collins
ISBN: 0-06-114870-9
First line: It is a consequence of possessing an income of ten thousand pounds a year that a man may order his life to his own liking, and chose his own society.
Back cover blurb:
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has long stood among the most beloved novels of all [...]

Posted on December 23rd, 2007 by Love
Filed under: C, English, Historical, Romance | 1 Comment »

Ut ur skuggan
by Jessica Kolterjahn

Swedish
257 pages
Månpocket
ISBN: 978-91-7001-533-5
First line: Minne: Jag spelade piano.
Back cover blurb:
Jag fotograferar. Det är det enda som känns som om det är mitt eget. Allt annat är någon annans. Någon annans val.
Agnes växer upp i en rik överklassfamilj i Stockholm under 1920- och 30-talen. Hemmet är kyligt och kärlekslöst och Agnes [...]

Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Love
Filed under: B, C, GLBT interest, Historical, Swedish | No Comments »