What is everyone reading for HIstorical Fiction?

I just finished When Devils Ride by Caro Peacock. Set in 1839 London. Very well written. Good history around the unmarried Queen Victoria being courted by Prince Albert and Prince Ernst.

I started Don Quixote the other day. It's been on my shelf for ages! Is that considered HF?

Read Treacherous Is the Night (Verity Kent, Bk 2 by Anna Lee Huber, 1/1/2022, and  A Pretty Deceit (Verity Kent, Bk 4) by Anna Lee Huber, 1/2/2022, 3 stars and 2 stars, respectfully.

My posts are always so boring and repetitive.  STILL reading The Beggar King and STILL listening to A Column of Fire. Hope to wrap up both in the next week and then move on to new stuff! 

Read A Dark Anatomy (Cragg & Fidelis, Bk 1) by Robin Blake, my first read by this author.  Very good!  My next book was The Mystery of Mrs. Christie: A Novel by Marie Benedict which I quite enjoyed. Read The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill: A Novel (One Thousand White Women Series) by Jim Fergus, too.  If you've read the award winning One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd you know that the book I am reading is the second in a trilogy and I liked it as much as the first.  A third is coming soon.

I finally finished The Beggar King by Oliver Potzsch, which is the third (I believe) in his Hangman's Daughter series  I think these books are okay.  Not onoes I find great, but usually an entertaining read.  I then read Bridge of Sighs: A Short Story of the Bubonic Plague by Laura Morelli.  I used it as my book for the "Read a HF Novella" section of the 2022 challenge, which is really pushing it because it is definitely a short story (very short) and not a novella, but I'm going with it.  Last night I started Sisters of the Sweetwater Fury by Kinley Bryan, which I think I'm going to enjoy.  It takes place in 1913 on the Great Lakes and is about three sisters and how they are impacted the the great storms that swept the area in the fall of '13.  I'm only a couple of chapters in, but so far so good. 

Still listening to A Column of Fire by Ken Follett. 

I am reading Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead.  It is good so far I am about quarter way through. Some of chapters get a big bogged dialogue that is not needed but overall plot is quite interesting. 

I finally got around to starting my first HF book this year!  I'm reading West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge.  So far it's a very sweet book!

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I finished Sisters of the Sweetwater Fury by Kinley Bryan this morning.  I loved this book!  I read it in 3 days, which is kind of a record for me.  One of those that I just couldn't put down.  Highly recommended.  I had the Kindle version, or I'd gladly pass it on to someone. Next up is The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin.  

Have made good headway on A Column of Fire and hope to finish that up very soon. 

I finished Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson.   Just okay for me. set in 1850-68 in Virginia. About a slave taken as a wife and her family broken up. Well written but I don't the story offered any thing new.

I finally finished listening to A Column of Fire by Ken Follet.  I enjoy his books, but they are soooooo long!  Next up for listening is The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein. Reading The Last Bookshop in London, which I am enjoying. 

Penny for Your Secrets by Anna Lee Huber is over.  I enjoy Verity and Sidney Kent but find the series is beginning to be repetative.  Many of scenarios and incidents are the same, so much so that I feel that they could be combined into one book with the Kents solving murder after murder.  I've read all I have on my shelves but will probably abandon the series, at least for now.

Not HF, but I started The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson.  He's an amazing storyteller.

Just finished an incredible book, Hamnet.  It focuses on Shakespeare's young son who died very young and how his death may have affected the family and stimulated his father to write the famous play, Hamlet.  This is the best book I've read to date.  It's one of those you just cannot stop reading until you are too tired to continue or you just have to find out what happens to the characters before you do.  Find a copy, mine was from the library, and do read it.  

REK - I read Hamnet last year.  Great book!

Hello!  I finished up The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin last night.  Charming story but nothing too exciting.  I started A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii by Stephanie Dray and others.  Interesting concept.  The story is told by multiple characters and each one's story is written by a different author.  The jacket says they are all stand alone stories but also overlap.  I'm about halfway through listening to The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein.  I so adored her Code Name Verity and the other one - Rose Under Fire maybe?  This one is a little less heavy than the first two WW2-focused books and is a prequel in that it's the story of a younger Julie, who later becomes "Verity."  The narrator is charming, and I love listening to the Scots and French accents.  Hoping to finish this one up before the end of the weekend, which will mean that I will have read six books in January, which is a record for me!  Okay, it helped that I was mostly through A Column of Fire and partway through The Beggar King when the month started, and I also read a very short story, but still, I'm happy with my progress toward my goal of reading more this year. 

REK - I listened to Hamnet last year and found the narrative beautiful.  I'm not sure I would've liked it as much had I read it instead of listening to it, but it is a very good book.  

I don't listen to many books but I love reading them.  Hamnet is probably just as good however you enjoy it.  Wonderful read.  Just obtained my suffragette mystery:  Dangerous Destiny by Chris Longmuir.   Not in PBS or the library so I ordered a new copy.  The reviews are very good so I look forward to readint this on.