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diaryoftruequotes · 8 months ago
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What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive. Karleen Koen, Dark Angels
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kpgresham · 3 years ago
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Historical Fiction--Literary Time Travel
Historical Fiction–Literary Time Travel
In 1986, Random House New York published Through A Glass Darkly, netting its first-time author, Karleen Koen, a hardcover rights record for a new author, $350,000.  Random House picked a winner when the paperback rights later netted an additional $755,000.  Not long after that, it was chosen by the Book of the Month Club (Los Angeles Times).  When asked about her book set in the 18th century,…
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sharkaiju · 4 years ago
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Die in peace, surrounded by what you love. Death will be welcome to you. You have had your glorious moment in the sun. Die in peace.
Through a Glass Darkly, Karleen Koen
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nellygwyn · 4 years ago
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BOOK RECS
Okay, so lots of people wanted this and so, I am compiling a list of my favourite books (both fiction and non-fiction), books that I recommend you read as soon as humanly possible. In the meantime, I’ll be pinning this post to the top of my blog (once I work out how to do that lmao) so it will be accessible for old and new followers. I’m going to order this list thematically, I think, just to keep everything tidy and orderly. Of course, a lot of this list will consist of historical fiction and historical non-fiction because that’s what I read primarily and thus, that’s where my bias is, but I promise to try and spice it up just a little bit. 
Favourite fiction books of all time:
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock // Imogen Hermes Gowar
Sense and Sensibility // Jane Austen
Slammerkin // Emma Donoghue 
Remarkable Creatures // Tracy Chevalier
Life Mask // Emma Donoghue
His Dark Materials // Philip Pullman (this includes the follow-up series The Book of Dust)
Emma // Jane Austen
The Miniaturist // Jessie Burton
Girl, Woman, Other // Bernadine Evaristo 
Jane Eyre // Charlotte Brontë
Persuasion // Jane Austen
Girl with a Pearl Earring // Tracy Chevalier
The Silent Companions // Laura Purcell
Tess of the d’Urbervilles // Thomas Hardy
Northanger Abbey // Jane Austen
The Chronicles of Narnia // C.S. Lewis
Pride and Prejudice // Jane Austen
Goodnight, Mr Tom // Michelle Magorian
The French Lieutenant’s Woman // John Fowles 
The Butcher’s Hook // Janet Ellis 
Mansfield Park // Jane Austen
The All Souls Trilogy // Deborah Harkness
The Railway Children // Edith Nesbit
Favourite non-fiction books of all time
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman // Robert Massie
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King // Antonia Fraser
Madame de Pompadour // Nancy Mitford
The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach // Matthew Dennison 
Black and British: A Forgotten History // David Olusoga
Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court // Lucy Worsley 
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Katherine Howard, the Fifth Wife of Henry VIII // Gareth Russell
King Charles II // Antonia Fraser
Casanova’s Women // Judith Summers
Marie Antoinette: The Journey // Antonia Fraser
Mrs. Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King // Claire Tomalin
Jane Austen at Home // Lucy Worsley
Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames // Lara Maiklem
The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth // Anna Keay
The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill // Christopher Hibbert
Nell Gwynn: A Biography // Charles Beauclerk
Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters // Patricia Pierce
Georgian London: Into the Streets // Lucy Inglis
The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart // Sarah Fraser
Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match // Wendy Moore
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from the Stone Age to the Silver Screen // Greg Jenner
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum // Kathryn Hughes
Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey // Nicola Tallis
Favourite books about the history of sex and/or sex work
The Origins of Sex: A History of First Sexual Revolution // Faramerz Dabhoiwala 
Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris // Nina Kushner
Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore // Julie Peakman
Courtesans // Katie Hickman
The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in mid-Nineteenth Century England
Madams, Bawds, and Brothel Keepers // Fergus Linnane
The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital // Dan Cruickshank 
A Curious History of Sex // Kate Lister
Sex and Punishment: 4000 Years of Judging Desire // Eric Berkowitz
Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray // Barbara White
Rent Boys: A History from Ancient Times to Present // Michael Hone
Celeste // Roland Perry
Sex and the Gender Revolution // Randolph Trumbach
The Pleasure’s All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex // Julie Peakman
LGBT+ fiction I love*
The Confessions of the Fox // Jordy Rosenberg 
As Meat Loves Salt // Maria Mccann
Bone China // Laura Purcell
Brideshead Revisited // Evelyn Waugh
The Confessions of Frannie Langton // Sara Collins
The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle // Neil Blackmore
Orlando // Virginia Woolf
Tipping the Velvet // Sarah Waters
She Rises // Kate Worsley
The Mercies // Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit // Jeanette Winterson
Maurice // E.M Forster
Frankisstein: A Love Story // Jeanette Winterson
If I Was Your Girl // Meredith Russo 
The Well of Loneliness // Radclyffe Hall 
* fyi, Life Mask and Girl, Woman, Other are also LGBT+ fiction
Classics I haven’t already mentioned (including children’s classics)
Far From the Madding Crowd // Thomas Hardy 
I Capture the Castle // Dodie Smith 
Vanity Fair // William Makepeace Thackeray 
Wuthering Heights // Emily Brontë
The Blazing World // Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
Murder on the Orient Express // Agatha Christie 
Great Expectations // Charles Dickens
North and South // Elizabeth Gaskell
Evelina // Frances Burney
Death on the Nile // Agatha Christie
The Monk // Matthew Lewis
Frankenstein // Mary Shelley
Vilette // Charlotte Brontë
The Mayor of Casterbridge // Thomas Hardy
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall // Anne Brontë
Vile Bodies // Evelyn Waugh
Beloved // Toni Morrison 
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd // Agatha Christie
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling // Henry Fielding
A Room With a View // E.M. Forster
Silas Marner // George Eliot 
Jude the Obscure // Thomas Hardy
My Man Jeeves // P.G. Wodehouse
Lady Audley’s Secret // Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Middlemarch // George Eliot
Little Women // Louisa May Alcott
Children of the New Forest // Frederick Marryat
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings // Maya Angelou 
Rebecca // Daphne du Maurier
Alice in Wonderland // Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows // Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina // Leo Tolstoy
Howard’s End // E.M. Forster
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 // Sue Townsend
Even more fiction recommendations
The Darling Strumpet // Gillian Bagwell
The Wolf Hall trilogy // Hilary Mantel
The Illumination of Ursula Flight // Anne-Marie Crowhurst
Queenie // Candace Carty-Williams
Forever Amber // Kathleen Winsor
The Corset // Laura Purcell
Love in Colour // Bolu Babalola
Artemisia // Alexandra Lapierre
Blackberry and Wild Rose // Sonia Velton
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories // Angela Carter
The Languedoc trilogy // Kate Mosse
Longbourn // Jo Baker
A Skinful of Shadows // Frances Hardinge
The Black Moth // Georgette Heyer
The Far Pavilions // M.M Kaye
The Essex Serpent // Sarah Perry
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo // Taylor Jenkins Reid
Cavalier Queen // Fiona Mountain 
The Winter Palace // Eva Stachniak
Friday’s Child // Georgette Heyer
Falling Angels // Tracy Chevalier
Little // Edward Carey
Chocolat // Joanne Harris 
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street // Natasha Pulley 
My Sister, the Serial Killer // Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Convenient Marriage // Georgette Heyer
Katie Mulholland // Catherine Cookson
Restoration // Rose Tremain
Meat Market // Juno Dawson
Lady on the Coin // Margaret Campbell Bowes
In the Company of the Courtesan // Sarah Dunant
The Crimson Petal and the White // Michel Faber
A Place of Greater Safety // Hilary Mantel 
The Little Shop of Found Things // Paula Brackston
The Improbability of Love // Hannah Rothschild
The Murder Most Unladylike series // Robin Stevens
Dark Angels // Karleen Koen
The Words in My Hand // Guinevere Glasfurd
Time’s Convert // Deborah Harkness
The Collector // John Fowles
Vivaldi’s Virgins // Barbara Quick
The Foundling // Stacey Halls
The Phantom Tree // Nicola Cornick
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle // Stuart Turton
Golden Hill // Francis Spufford
Assorted non-fiction not yet mentioned
The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World // Deborah Cadbury
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History to the Italian Renaissance // Catherine Fletcher
All the King's Women: Love, Sex, and Politics in the life of Charles II // Derek Jackson
Mozart’s Women // Jane Glover
Scandalous Liaisons: Charles II and His Court // R.E. Pritchard
Matilda: Queen, Empress, Warrior // Catherine Hanley 
Black Tudors // Miranda Kaufman 
To Catch a King: Charles II's Great Escape // Charles Spencer
1666: Plague, War and Hellfire // Rebecca Rideal
Henrietta Maria: Charles I's Indomitable Queen // Alison Plowden
Catherine of Braganza: Charles II's Restoration Queen // Sarah-Beth Watkins
Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses // Helen Rappaport
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 // Stella Tillyard 
The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir // Michael Bundock
Black London: Life Before Emancipation // Gretchen Gerzina
In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815
The King’s Mistress: Scandal, Intrigue and the True Story of the Woman who Stole the Heart of George I // Claudia Gold
Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson // Paula Byrne
The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England // Amanda Vickery
Terms and Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding School, 1939-1979 // Ysenda Maxtone Graham 
Fanny Burney: A Biography // Claire Harman
Aphra Behn: A Secret Life // Janet Todd
The Imperial Harem: Women and the Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire // Leslie Peirce
The Fall of the House of Byron // Emily Brand
The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough // Ophelia Field
Night-Walking: A Nocturnal History of London // Matthew Beaumont, Will Self
Jane Austen: A Life // Claire Tomalin
Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton // Flora Fraser
Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the 18th Century // John Brewer
Henrietta Howard: King’s Mistress, Queen’s Servant // Tracy Borman
City of Beasts: How Animals Shaped Georgian London // Tom Almeroth-Williams
Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion // Anne Somerset 
Charlotte Brontë: A Life // Claire Harman 
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe // Anthony Summers
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day // Peter Ackroyd 
Elizabeth I and Her Circle // Susan Doran
African Europeans: An Untold History // Olivette Otele 
Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives // Daisy Hay
How to Create the Perfect Wife // Wendy Moore
The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough // Hugo Vickers
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn // Eric Ives
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy // Barbara Ehrenreich
A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie // Kathryn Harkup 
Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II // Linda Porter
Female Husbands: A Trans History // Jen Manion
Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day // Anne Somerset
Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country // Edward Parnell 
A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles // Ned Palmer
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine // Lindsey Fitzharris
Medieval Woman: Village Life in the Middle Ages // Ann Baer
The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York // Anne de Courcy
The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc // Suzannah Lipscomb
The Daughters of the Winter Queen // Nancy Goldstone
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency // Bea Koch
Bess of Hardwick // Mary S. Lovell
The Royal Art of Poison // Eleanor Herman 
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte, and the Hanoverians // Janice Hadlow
Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football; How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment // Lee Jackson
Favourite books about current social/political issues (?? for lack of a better term)
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power // Lola Olufemi
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Worker Rights // Molly Smith, Juno Mac
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race // Reni Eddo-Lodge
Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows // Christine Burns
Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism // Alison Phipps
Trans Like Me: A Journey For All Of Us // C.N Lester
Brit(Ish): On Race, Identity, and Belonging // Afua Hirsch 
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution // Dan Hicks
Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living // Jes M. Baker
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot // Mikki Kendall
Denial: Holocaust History on Trial // Deborah Lipstadt
Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape // Jessica Valenti, Jaclyn Friedman
Don’t Touch My Hair // Emma Dabiri
Sister Outsider // Audre Lorde 
Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen // Amrou Al-Kadhi
Trans Power // Juno Roche
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons // Imani Perry
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment // Amelia Gentleman
Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You // Sofie Hagen
Diaries, memoirs & letters
The Diary of a Young Girl // Anne Frank
Renia’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust // Renia Spiegel 
Writing Home // Alan Bennett
The Diary of Samuel Pepys // Samuel Pepys
Histoire de Ma Vie // Giacomo Casanova
Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger // Nigel Slater
London Journal, 1762-1763 // James Boswell
The Diary of a Bookseller // Shaun Blythell 
Jane Austen’s Letters // edited by Deidre la Faye
H is for Hawk // Helen Mcdonald 
The Salt Path // Raynor Winn
The Glitter and the Gold // Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough
Journals and Letters // Fanny Burney
Educated // Tara Westover
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading // Lucy Mangan
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? // Jeanette Winterson
A Dutiful Boy // Mohsin Zaidi
Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler // Christine Keeler
800 Years of Women’s Letters // edited by Olga Kenyon
Istanbul // Orhan Pamuk
Henry and June // Anaïs Nin
Historical romance (this is a short list because I’m still fairly new to this genre)
The Bridgerton series // Julia Quinn
One Good Earl Deserves a Lover // Sarah Mclean
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake // Sarah Mclean
The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics // Olivia Waite
That Could Be Enough // Alyssa Cole
Unveiled // Courtney Milan
The Craft of Love // EE Ottoman
The Maiden Lane series // Elizabeth Hoyt
An Extraordinary Union // Alyssa Cole
Slightly Dangerous // Mary Balogh
Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance // Jennieke Cohen
A Fashionable Indulgence // KJ Charles
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persiena · 4 years ago
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“You go away,” she told him. “You go far away and marry, as your mother keeps urging you! Some sweet, docile girl who has no fears and no hurts and so can never disappoint you as I have done!”
Through A Glass Darkly, Karleen Koen
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Best Historical Fiction Recommendations
Classical
Helen of Sparta and By Helen’s Hand by Amalia Carosella
Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran
Medieval
The Balian d’Ibelin trilogy by Helena P. Schrader
Juliet by Anne Fortier
Renaissance
Virgin Widow by Anne O’Brien
Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen by Alison Weir
Anne Boleyn, A King’s Obsession by Alison Weir
The Boleyn King trilogy by Laura Andersen
17th Century
The Queen’s Dwarf by Ella March Chase
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier
Before Versailles by Karleen Koen
Dark Angels by Karleen Koen
Exit the Actress by Priya Parmar
18th Century
Through A Glass Darkly and Now Face to Face by Karleen Koen
The Marie Antoinette trilogy by Juliet Grey
The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer
My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
Regency
All of Jane Austen’s works
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
Indiscretion by Jude Morgan
A Noble Masquerade by Kristi Ann Hunter
Lady Maybe by Julie Klassen
A Useful Woman by Darcie Wilde
Victorian
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin
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andeverymomentafter · 4 years ago
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You love her.... Yes, she has that effect on people.
Through A Glass Darkly, Karleen Koen
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definexeternity · 5 years ago
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Tagged by the lovely @epaetaeya
Probably won’t be tagging anyone in particular bc my mates aren’t on this site. Therefore I tag anyone who wants to do it.
Top 3 ships:
Prumano, Alastor with himself from the Hazbin Hotel (gotta love that Ace presentation) and beer with cheese pops?? Tbh I don’t have OTPs, I like individual characters with or without romance.
Last movie:
I just went to watch Little Women in the theater.
Reading:
The last book I read was Karleen Koen’s Dark Angels. I can recommend it to those who like this genre, I enjoyed it though it gets a few minus points for the rushed ending and an exasperating main character.
What food are you craving now:
Spicy pork ramen! I have a dinner date with my dad today and apparently I get to pick the restaurant, so I might get my ramen.
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dontdenymeshakespeare · 7 years ago
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July Book Haul
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Every year at the end of July, the library in my hometown has a book sale. For a couple years I didn’t go, but the last two I’ve given up a summer day of sleeping in. Last year, I had to purchase a bag. This year, I limited myself to the amount I could carry to the car. I still came out with five. The one I got that I’m still not sure about even months later is The Best American Travel Writing…
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absynthe--minded · 6 years ago
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I am loving your commentary on that trash romance novel. You seem really knowledgeable on pitfalls in the genre. I'm actually on the hunt for GOOD historical fiction and GOOD romance. Do you have any recommendations? Thanks!
OKAY SO I’m gonna admit that I actually have a high tolerance for fudging historical details if the story is good? Not everything I’m gonna recommend is, like, accurate to the point of being able to be used as a scholarly source, but they’re books I enjoyed.
Dark Angels by Karleen Koen, a story about noblewomen in the court of the English king Charles II. The main character is Alice, a lady-in-waiting to the current queen. Featuring Protestant vs Catholic shenanigans, scandalous green stockings, a lot of detail on what being a lady-in-waiting looks like, a murder plot, secret alliances, homoerotic subtext of the lesbian variety (but sadly all the confirmed gay characters are supporting cast). It kind of falls apart in the last quarter but the first part is very good.
the Gemma Doyle trilogy (A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing) by Libba Bray - this is YA, and is definitely using the late Victorian era to offer social commentary on modern issues and ideas, but it feels less heavy-handed than Alex and Eliza because the rebellious teenage girls feel like rebellious teenage girls who might have actually existed? There is some weird orientalism/exoticism about India in the first part of the book, but once Gemma leaves India for England that gets better. Featuring ghosts, alternate dimensions, magic, undead lesbians, commentary on femininity, interracial romance, and boarding school hijinks. Also featuring Felicity Worthington, queen of my heart.
there are a lot of novels that are historical now that were written in the time period when they were set that I can recommend? Everybody knows Jane Austen’s work, but I can also say that The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Misérables, Dracula, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and Carmilla are as good as they’re reputed to be. If you’re interested in original Holmes stories, I’d say start with Adventures or The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes rather than the novels - The Hound of the Baskervilles is as good as you’ve heard, but A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear take weird detours into American Adventures and The Sign of Four is good but not Great imo.
Sarah Waters does such good work. Fingersmith is brilliant, and I’d recommend it to anybody. Affinity is sad and will punch you in the gut but is also really, really good.
This is all hetero romance, but I’ve just finished and really enjoyed Kinley Macgregor’s Brotherhood of the Sword series. It’s not super current but not ancient, either? It’s interconnected stories of love and high adventure in medieval Europe during the reign of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Born in Sin has a really satisfying climax, Return of the Warrior feels like an Errol Flynn movie, and A Dark Champion is a murder mystery and a romance and a tournament arc all in one. Where these books shine is their treatment of men, oddly enough - there’s a very heartwarming found family thing going on with a group of men who learn to overcome the abuse and the trauma they suffered from abusive fathers and restrictive gender roles and flawed ideas of what a real man is like. The women they meet are smart and funny and know what they want in bed, but they feel like products of their time nonetheless. Basically I love these books.
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winterhalters · 4 years ago
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Have you read Karleen Koen's "Before Versailles"? It's set in the year 1661, when Louise De La Valière arrives in Louis XIV's court. It has Louis, Monsieur, Minette, Olympe Mancini, Anne of Austria, Chevreuse, Fouquet, Colbert, the Gramonts... And even a little of Athénaïs. It has some Iron Mask in it, so y'know, some "fictional speculation", but it was very entertaining to me! Have you read it? your thoughts on it?
No, sorry. In general I stay away from historical novels.
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diaryoftruequotes · 3 years ago
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What a web deceit made, its strands strangling the innocent and the guilty alike.
Karleen Koen
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abreathofair · 7 years ago
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50 historical fiction novels set in france through 1,000 years!
multiple centuries
paris by edward rutherford
11th century
joheved by maggie anton
12th century
the summer queen by elizabeth chadwick
13th century
the sister queens by sophie perinot
four sisters, all queens by sherry jones
the passion of dolssa by julie berry
14th century
timeline by michael crichton
the iron king by maurice druon
between two fires by christopher buehlman
15th century
grave mercy by robin lafevers
the agony and the ecstasy: the biographical novel of michelangelo by irving stone
the agincourt bride by joanna hickson
the hunchback of notre-dame by victor hugo
joan of arc by mark twain
16th century
queen margot, or marguerite de valois by alexandre dumas
the confessions of catherine de medici by c.w. gortner
courtesan by diane haeger
mademoiselle boleyn by robin maxwell
madame serpent by jean plaidy
17th century
the three musketeers by alexandre dumas
to dance with kings by rosalind laker
mistress of the sun by sandra gulland
the oracle glass by judith merkle riley
before versailles: a novel of louis xiv by karleen koen
18th century
madame tussaud: a novel of the french revolution by michelle moran
the many lives & secret sorrows of josephine b. by sandra gulland
mistress of the revolution by catherine delors
perfume: the story of a murderer by patrick suskind
city of darkness, city of light by marge piercy
scaramouche by rafael sabatini
becoming marie antoinette by juliet grey
a place of greater safety by hilary mantel
the scarlet pimpernel by emmuuska orczy
19th century
The count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas
claude & camille: a novel of monet by stephanie cowell
the second empress: a novel of napoleon's court by michelle moran
the phantom of the opera by gaston leroux
the marriage of opposites by alice hoffman
the velvet hours by alyson richman
les miserables by victor hugo
20th century
sarah's key by tatiana de rosnay
the nightingale by kristin hannah
the paris architect by charles belfoure
five quarters of the orange by joanne harris
mademoiselle chanel by c.w. gortner
madame picasso by anne girard
depths of glory: a biographical novel of camille picasso by irving stone
the perfume collector by kathleen tessaro
suite francaise by irene nemirovsky
the alice network by kate quinn
previous: historical fiction set in britain
next: books to movies & tv in 2017
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therapy101 · 7 years ago
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Favourite non-psychology book?
ooh, great question! I couldn’t pick one:
Series: Harry Potter (JK Rowling)
Series Runner Up: Symphony of Ages (Elizabeth Hayden)
Stand Alone Novel: Dark Angels (Karleen Koen)
Novel Runners Up: Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen), The Things They Carried (Tim O’Brien), The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Nonfiction: Five Days at Memorial (Sheri Fink)
Nonfiction Runners Up: Love, Lucy (Lucille Ball), When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi)
and so many more!
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nellygwyn · 3 years ago
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Have you read Plaidy's "The loves of Charles II"? It seems it's an amalgamation or 3 novels concerning the Merry Monarch's life... As someone who enjoys the 27th century, what are your thoughts on it? Would you recommend it?
(I'm assuming you meant 17th century here akaksk)
I have not read it, though Jean Plaidy's books have been on my list for ages, especially her books about the Stuart court (p sure she wrote several for all the Stuart monarchs)
I did just read Dark Angels by Karleen Koen, which was in a similar vein to Jean Plaidy's novels and in which Charles II is a major character (as well as Louise de Kerouaille). Other than being a bit dated, I enjoyed it and recommend it.
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nebylitsa · 7 years ago
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9&15?
9. are you an artist?not really; im more of a writer. i used to draw a lot of more or less serious art, but now i just doodle. i think (hope!) my writing skills are consistently improving, whereas i was always a lot less brave when it came to art so after a while my drawing skills sort of hit a plateau.
15. five most influential books over your lifetime.omfg whenever i am asked something about books i instantly forget every book ive ever read, BUT that being said here is an imperfect list, in no particular order.- the harry potter series (first got me into fandom stuff)- before versailles by karleen koen (one of the first historical novels i ever read)- a people’s history of the united states by howard zinn (shaped my political views)- twelfth night by william shakespeare (made me fall in love w/ shakespeare and w/ theater in general)- the flowers of evil by charles baudelaire (influenced my aesthetic as a writer)
thanks! :^)
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