Discovering Perigord Prehistory and Fifty Shades of Grey

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I tend to read a bunch of books at one time, usually one “ice cream” book that I go through pretty fast and several non-fictions that linger and stop and start and are sometimes abandoned. I finished the Fifty Shades trilogy last week (pure ice cream) and went back to work on Discovering Perigord Prehistory.

First, Fifty Shades: the Internet had

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I always read your book posts but sometimes can't think of comments. You seem to do the same thing I do, keep a few lines going for different moods.

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FSOG was very silly (if I never again hear the phrase inner goddess, it will be too soon), but erotic nonetheless. I think the fuss was definitely sour grapes.

Venetia sounds like fun! I will read it once I finish the Rowling mystery, which I am quite enjoying.

My latest non-fiction read was Margalit Fox's The Riddle of the Labyrinth, which read almost like fiction, it was so full of interest and momentum.

The nice thing about a cruise is that you get to see different places without having to schlep yourself and your luggage there. That said, you should absolutely go and see the Parthenon. Because it is THE PARTHENON. The Parthenon Museum just down the hill is fantastic, as well. And I can tell you where to shop and eat. :-)

Also, don't make a cake of yourself.

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Oh, the other thing about FSOG that wasn't mentioned in the reviews is that it also slips into hurt/comfort, but is that only a fan fiction designation? I will tell you that Toby's men's group had a whole discussion of how their wives reading that series had spiced up their sex life. That definitely made me wonder; was there just a huge uptick in spanking all over Northern Virginia? Handcuffs? Why wasn't I notified?

I know what you mean about a cruise, but there's also that part where you spend all that time in a floating hotel when you could be in a charming pensione, listening to the life of the strada below.

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It spiced up our sex life. As in, there was some, not that there was any handcuffing.

On the cruise I took, I'd get off as soon as we docked, and not get back on until the last blast. YMMV.

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Glad you enjoyed Venetia!

Myself, I'd call the Regency catch-phrases she uses either slang, argot, or cant. In fact, some of her slang is classic thieves' cant, although I don't believe any of that appears in Venetia. If you read some of her other books, it features more heavily; I believe The Tollboth, The Quiet Gentleman, and The Talisman Ring feature a good deal of it.

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Maybe argot is the word.

Do you read a lot of things? I think it's unusual for a man to have read Georgette Heyer's oevre!

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I read a great many things. I haven't read all of Heyer's Regency work by any means, as I don't in general incline to romance novels. I prefer the books where she adds in a detective story or where something other than a love story drives the plot, although Venetia is rather an exception to that. The first Heyers I read were some of her detective novels, and I slid over to the Regency side because a friend who knows my taste in fiction recommended that I read a few of her romance novels that included strong personable heroines who weren't just a love interest. I tried them and liked them; rather like Dorothy Sayers mixed with Jane Austen