Books read 2012

[rolanni]

The Unknown Ajax, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Black Sheep, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/ Steve)
Stealing the Elf-King’s Roses, Diane Duane (e)
The Reluctant Widow, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Friday’s Child, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Dragon Ship manuscript, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (e)
Kim, Rudyard Kipling (e)
Regency Buck, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter (e)
Chimera, Rob Thurman (e)

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[ironore.livejournal.com]

Looks like you've been on a Georgette Heyer kick lately. Can't say I've ever read anything by them.

Thank you very much

[catherine ives (from livejournal.com)]

Georgette Heyer: So far I've read Cotillion. I'm now reading the Reluctant Widow. I enjoyed Cotillion so much. I just love the Reluctant Widow so far. Without giving too much away, there's a young man character in the novel who is hilarious. Now...in the Regency Period Heyer writes about I don't think they had the concept of "teenagers". Today this "young man" would be considered a "teenager" for sure. He gets into one "scrape" after another. Also, like master like pet: he "owns" ( loosely put :)) a very large young dog who is equally hilarious. Heyer is definitely an expert on describing doggie behavior with wonderful comical results.

Frances Cheviot, your model for Pat Rin, hasn't appeared yet in The Reluctant Widow as I am reading it. I'll be very interested to see how he is like Pat Rin.

I now also have in my possession Black Sheep and Regency Buck. Thanks for recommending the Unknown Ajax and Friday's Child. I will make haste to go and grab them from some suitable paper source.

Re: Thank you very much

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

Oooo, it's Francis, is it? I thought it was Carlyon

[sfminou.livejournal.com]

Francis Cheviot as Pat Rin? Oh, no! Tell me it isn't so! Pat Rin is one of my favorite characters, and Francis is definitely not! Can you imagine Pat Rin wanting a tisane because the wind was in the wrong quarter? If he was indeed the starting point for Pat Rin, I'm very happy that he was rehabilitated in later drafts.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry, but it is so. And I think you wrong Francis. Yes, the tisane business was absurd, but he was not a man who shrank from duty to his country, or the duties of friendship.

[sfminou.livejournal.com]

Francis exists far more favorably then in your viewing of him than in mine: he's the man who off-ed a friend without apparent qualms... he is, according to Carlyon, a "very dangerous man." Perhaps my view of Pat Rin is too soft!
But Pat Rin's mother Kareen was very much like Francis indeed. It's Kareen who without those same apparent qualms kills a friend of many years when she discovers he might be a threat to Korval.
And I must agree that Francis was firmly and instantly ready to do the patriotic thing -- perhaps even involving patricide.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Readers do tend to more forgiving of characters they like. Same like real life, I guess.