Category: Georgette Heyer
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A bit late but reviewing books read last month. As my daughter has been undergoing an operation I have been worried and unable to concentrate on anything with great pith and moment but rather light reading or revisiting books so my brain did not have to work very hard. First up, I revisited a series…
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After a brief mad moment when the sun shone and I thought the summer had begun to arrive this quickly passed and I am currently sitting here in my living room with a jumper on and a hot water bottle at my back as it is bitter cold. Getting so fed up with this weather.…
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I first discovered Georgette Heyer when I was about 12 and stuck indoors with German measles and unable to go to school. My sister, who was a librarian, brought home a pile of books she had picked at radom for me to look at and in this heap was The Talisman Ring by GH. Oh…
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Lots of books to read and several to bring to your attention. My TBR pile is gradually spreading and I really need to sort it out. Two books from the British Library. No I do NOT work for them nor do they pay me a retainer but hardly surprising if anybody thinks so as I…
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I am not quite sure what Georgette Heyer has done to bring down such sarcasm and dismissive reviews by the literati. She suffered from their disparaging remarks during her life and now that this new biography has been published, they are at it again. It makes me very cross indeed and those who have accused…
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I am not normally a lover of audio books, no matter how well they are read, somehow the voices never match up to my ideas of how the characters sound, but on Sunday and Monday, I felt so depressed and fed up and found I was in a weepy state, so I slobbed around all…