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Subject: April Blizzard Brings Time to Read!
Date Posted: 4/10/2019 6:05 PM ET
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Can't believe that no one has started this thread yet.  However, since I am reading two HF novels I'll share.  Obtained a copy of Hell Bay by Will Thomas  from the library but only a few chapters into it.  Am trying to read some of the best reads from others.  Thanks for sharing.

Am about a third of the way through Labryinth by Kate Mosse that has been on my shelf for ages it seems.  Really enjoying this one.



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Date Posted: 4/11/2019 1:22 PM ET
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I've started Column of Fire by Ken Follett.  It's the third in his series of books that started with the very excellent Pillars of the Earth.  At 900+ pages I will be working on this one for a while!

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Date Posted: 4/12/2019 7:19 AM ET
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I have read a few so far this month

Frost Fair by Edward Marston excellent Historical Mystery set in Restoration England

A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder  fun historical cozy mystery

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Date Posted: 4/12/2019 10:14 PM ET
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Finished Hell Bay and it's a five star read.  A thriller from start to finish.  Interesting to see the duo trying to cope with a killer(s) with whom they and many others are marooned on an island.



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I finished the Romanov Empress by C.W. Gortner.  I found it quite interesting. Started in 1865 and went forward. This is about Tsar Nicholas II mother. 

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Date Posted: 4/23/2019 10:19 AM ET
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Hello, all!  I am still reading Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles by Margaret George (it's quite a hefty volume!), and I'm listening to My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray.  I also started reading The Greenest Branch - A Novel of German's First Female Physician (Hildegard of Bingen) by P.K. Adams on my Kindle, which I started simply because I went on a short trip earlier this month and didn't want to lug the big Mary book.  I haven't gotten too far into it yet as I want to finish Mary first. 

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I am reading Kate Quinn's newest, The Huntress. It is quite good.

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Date Posted: 4/25/2019 1:32 PM ET
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I finished A Column of Fire by Ken Follett, it was good but nothing like his Pillars of the Earth quality wise.  Now I have started The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry.  I'm not sure what I think aout it yet.