Annika Larsdotter: barnamörderska
by Inger Lövkrona
For the Back to History and To Be Read reading challenges.
Swedish
255 pages
Historiska Media
ISBN: 91-88930-64-5
First line: Boston — Min vän slänger tidningsartikeln på skrivbordet med en kort kommentar: “Ja, här har du en till.”
Back cover blurb:
Annika Larsdotter avrättades 1765, 18 år gammal. Hon hade då erkänt dråp på sitt nyfödda barn [...]
Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Back to History, C, History, Swedish, To Be Read, True crime | No Comments »
Mr. Darcy Presents His Bride
by Helen Halstead
For the Back to History reading challenge.
English
310 pages
Ulysses Press
ISBN: 978-1-56975-588-4
First line: What a joy it is to have a worthy topic of conversation, to hold the power to amaze!
Back cover blurb:
In Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen brought together one of the most beloved literary couples of all time—Elizabeth [...]
Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Back to History, D, English, Historical, Romance | 3 Comments »
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 »
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 | 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 »
Not too many hours left of this year now—just over twenty-five here, actually.
I’ve looked over the challenges for next year and finally got around to joining two more I’ve been meaning to sign up for for a while. All lists are now set in stone (with the possible exception of the Decades challenge, which gives [...]
Posted on December 30th, 2007 by Love
Filed under: Back to History, General booktalk, Personal challenges, To Be Read | No Comments »
