'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Yes - love the others too. Did you read her latest? Sort of a sequel to Folly
I did -- unfortunatley too soon after a certin 'conflict' began . found it way too real fo rme to deal with well. But really good.
don't really thin of No. 1 ladies... as a mystery-- much more of a story of place. I have Tears, just haven't read it yet.
If it's already been recommended, I apologize - but along that vein, I LOVE Laurie King's historical mystery series -- starts with The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Have you read the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters? It's set in the 19th century, a woman Egyptian archaeologist/detective and her family. Books are set in London and Egypt. I quite like them.
Have you read the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters? It's set in the 19th century, a woman Egyptian archaeologist/detective and her family. Books are set in London and Egypt. I quite like them.I liked the first fifty-seven. After that reading new ones grew a bit redundant.
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I liked the first fifty-seven. After that reading new ones grew a bit redundant.
I've read four or five of them. Out of order, of course, which isn't a big deal. Happens a lot with series. "Elizabeth Peters" also writes romance novels under the name Barbara Michaels, and I think that she has another pseudonym as well.
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Thanks Kate! I was wondering. It's an unusual experience for me, the usually prolific reader, to know the sound of a word before I know the look of the word. Signed, the person who was certain "segue" was pronounced "seg-goo" from reading it for many years without having heard it spoken, and many other similar examples. I learned at a very early age to look up words and their etymology, but I tended to skip over sounding out pronunciation!
I learned at a very early age to look up words and their etymology, but I tended to skip over sounding out pronunciation!
One of the nice feature of online dictionaries is the pronounciation button, where you can hear the word properly pronounced.
I had a very embarrassing incident with the word facade in 7th grade or so....
"fuckedy?" Hee. My downfall was chaos. Which I pronounced, "chowse."
I still say "munciple" in my head, only just managing to rearrange it to municiple before it hits audible.
"fuckedy?"
nope, "fa-Kade"
My downfall was chaos. Which I pronounced, "chowse."
I said it "chay-ous"