[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bertrice Small books & Philippa Gregory
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 21:23:12 -0700 (PDT)
Bertrice's or Philippa's?
As for the former, only the Skye O'Malley and Skye'r
legacy series, and Rosamund, Until You and Philippa
needto be read in order, though a couple of others
should be read before the Skye O'Malley ones because
someof the incidents and people show up in one of
them.
I don't know about Gregory's. When I just did a search
in the catalog I see there is a trilogy, the first
one being The Favored Child, the Wideacre, and finally
Meridon.. From the review, it's a historical novel set
in 17th and 18th century England -- or was it 18th and
19th --but deals with a ficitonal family. When I
finish all the Small books, I'll start on the Gregory
books. So far all 5 now that I've read reviews of
(libraries, at least mine,are starting to post
reviews from Library Journal and/or Publishers'
Weekly) sound like the kind of novels I like to read.I
seem to be enmired (is there such a word?) in those
centuries in England -- in the upper classes, of
course. I'm not interested in partaking of the poverty
and hardship of the underclasses, thank you (smile).
There's enough news about poverty, illness, and
troubles in our modern word. I want escapism in my
literature.
BTW, speaking of poverty and trouble, I just finished
reading The Night of the Hunter.I haven't seen the
movie -- too scared -- but the book is very well
written and not that scary. There is a lot of
introspection and description which, I shamfacedly
admit I skipped a lot of except at the very end. There
is a copy in the bookshare collection,and though it is
definitely not a romance and is not a happy book, it
does have a good ending, evil is punished and goodness
and courage rewarded and,s I say, it's very well
written.
Cindy
--- Pam Quinn <quinn.family@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Should her books be read in any specific order?
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> Pam
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