What I'm Reading Wednesday

[lost_spook]

What I've Finished ReadingMostly Regencies! I was taken to a different library by a friend and it was full of them, what could I do? They're reading candyfloss and I can't help it, even though I know I'm the wrong person to read them because whatever it is I'm after, they're not quite it. Still mostly fun, though. I just wish the latest one

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[swordznsorcery]

Oh, there's nowt wrong with a little "reading candyfloss". We all indulge! Having struggled through The Brothers Karamazov, I'm seriously seeing the attraction, and feel like clinging to my Leslie Charteris collection like a lifeline. :D A shame you're finding something lacking, though. Is that because other authors don't compare to Heyer? I asked my mother, who is a big Heyer fan, if she could suggest something in a similar vein, incidentally. She suggested Anne O'Brien and Joanna Hickson. Easy reading and historical, though not Romance era. Tudor mostly, I think. She also mentioned Carola Dunn, who writes 1920s murder mysteries about a woman named Daisy Dalrymple, which are apparently very enjoyable and might good light reading. Depends on whether you prefer your Golden Age detective fic to have been written at the time or not, I imagine. I know some do.

650 pages, and it only covers 1793-1815?! Flipping heck, that's seriously in-depth.

[lost_spook]

I've come to the conclusion that there just is nobody like Heyer but thank you for the additional recs! I think, with the modern Regencies that I'd be happy with a little less sex and a little more pretence at historical accuracy, but it probably is just that I've been spoiled by Heyer.

650 pages, and it only covers 1793-1815?! Flipping heck, that's seriously in-depth.

Well, it was a very busy twenty-odd years or so. There are plenty of books that long on just WWI or WWII or a decade or one place or something! ;-)

[swordznsorcery]

That is a very fair point. Last year I read a book that was just about 1913 (and very good it was too). I would be a bit put off by a 650 page one of such limited intent though, I must admit. I spent so long having to read weighty, scholarly history books, that I prefer my historical non-fic to be of the lighter kind now!

I've come to the conclusion that there just is nobody like Heyer

My mother says much the same. Her favourite author is Cynthia Harrod Eagles, who is a very different animal, and writes much more serious-minded stuff, but she keeps going back to Heyer.

[lost_spook]

It doesn't seem particularly weighty or anything - I think sometimes there's just a lot to talk about! (And I think I have that 1913 book, although I haven't read it yet

[katemacetak]

I'm reading a regency right now myself, the first book in Lisa Kleypas' Wallflowers series. It's pretty good, and I needed some candyfloss.

[lost_spook]

Oh, I think one of my lot was the second in the series - not technically a Regency, erally, but definitely the most candyfloss-est of the lot! Sometimes a person needs some candyfloss in book form. *nods*

[dimity_blue]

Charity Girl isn't one of my favourites either. It feels like Friday's Child gone wrong.

[lost_spook]

Yes, it's all theoretically fine, but something's definitely off with it overall. It is a bit hard to pin it down, really. It's a Foundling/Friday's Child storyline, but not as good as either of them!