Ramblings about the Book People who follow me may have seen me mention my intent to fit one non-SF&F classic per quarter into my heavily SF&F-based reading diet. A Tale of Two Cities was my classic reading selection for the second quarter. Last time, I chose an author and book that was completely ...
This was a fun and informative read about things that historical fiction writers frequently get wrong. The author points out some major blunders (without naming names) made in some of the historical fiction she’s read and even admits to a few of her own. It’s basically just an overview but things l...
New Review! A FAR BETTER REST, based on the parts of A TALE OF TWO CITIES that Dickens couldn't be arsed to write about because, well, he was Dickens. http://tinyurl.com/o9xf6nt It's an excellent historical novel of Ancien Regime France for Bastille Day! AND IT'S ONLY $2.99 ON YOUR KINDLE!!
What a terrific book. You don't have to be a writer or a history buff to enjoy it. If you are a writer or a history buff (or both), for heaven’s sake, read this. Even if your writing isn’t historical in nature. Heck, you might be inspired to tackle historical writing after reading this. That sense ...
Aristide Ravel is a police spy in France post-revolution though he prefers to to look on his work as investigation rather than spying. Citizen Ravel is asked to look a pair of shootings by Commissaire Brasseur when the bodies of a young woman and a man are found dead in his apartment.This was a very...
The Book Report: Paris during the Terror, 1793, would seem to be a demi-Paradise for a homicide detective. There was a murder or six every few hours at the guillotine. But Aristide Ravel, whose first adventure The Cavalier of the Apocalypse is set in Royalist times and explains why he stopped trying...
Rating: 4.25* of fiveWow. In the third in her Aristide Ravel, police spy, mysteries set in Revolutionary Paris, Alleyyn actually takes us to 1786, ten years before the first book ("Game of Patience") is set. It is the dying spasm of the ancien regime, the time when the royal government's incompetenc...
Rating: 3.875* of fiveThe second Aristide Ravel mystery, set in Revolutionary Paris, leads us deeper into the twisty byways of our sleuth's character and, at the same time, deeper into the vanished Paris that was so influential in the creation of the modern world.I like series mysteries for reasons ...
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