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A Foreign Affair by Caro Peacock

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on March 13, 2008
Posted in Books Read 2008Caro PeacockHistorical Fiction  | 15 Comments

Publication Date: April 2008


Warning: Do not read this right before bed!

The year is 1837 and Liberty Lane, runs away from her overbearing aunt to meet up with her father in France. She receives an anonymous note telling her that her father was shot in a dual. She knows that this can’t be true, due to her father’s ethical belief against duels. He must have been murdered, but by whom?

Liberty does some investigating and gets herself caught up in some very close calls herself. She agrees to pose as a governess for a family that was said to be, somehow involved in her father’s death. To tell more of this riveting early Victorian Gothic mystery would give away too much.

This is a compulsive read that I was unable to put down! Caro Peacock’s characters are well fleshed out and come to life. I felt like was inside the story myself. This book is very close to a five star rating for me, however, there is one little part towards the end that I think could have been set up better. I can’t mention it here without giving away a spoiler.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you, I was up until 3:00 in the morning with this wonderful heart-racing book!
4.5/5


Note: This book was also published with the title ‘Death at Dawn’

Also Reviewed by:

Historical Tapestry

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Win a Copy of "Change of Heart" by Jodi Picoult

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on March 8, 2008
Posted in Uncategorized 

Girls Just Reading is having a contest to win this book. I have not read it myself yet, but it’s gotten good “buzz”. If you would like to enter the contest, click on the link above to go to the Girls Just Reading Blog.

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Meme: The Six-Word Memoir

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on March 3, 2008
Posted in Memes  | 5 Comments

Jill at The Magic Lasso tagged me for this meme,which originated here .

“As I read yet another book review of a memoir this weekend, my husband told me that I should write one. I said that my story would be much too short and rather boring so when I ran across the following book I decided it was just my speed. A six word memoir! Written by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser, Not Quite What I was Expecting: Six Word Memoirs by Famous and Obscure is a compilation based on the story that Hemingway once bet ten dollars that he could sum up his life in six words. His words were- For Sale: baby shoes, never worn. There’s a video on Amazon with examples from the book, it sounds like a fun read! I’d like to start a six word memoir meme and here are the rules:

1. Write your own six word memoir
2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like
3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to this
original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere
4 .Tag five more blogs with links
5. And don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play!”


MY SIX-WORD MEMOIR

Life’s too short and too long!

I now tag:

Dana
Laura
Kristy
3M
Wendy

I Hope you all have fun with this one.

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