Welcome to the Chivalrous Deeds: Historical Fiction Challenge!
It is time to visit as many courts as you can in 2011. Remember, you can visit any court at any point in history. You can visit the same court multiple times just not consecutively. Further details and prize info can be found here.
Once you have completed a book please post your review in Mr. Linky below. The format is name of book and author followed by either your name (or blog name if you prefer). Example: The Last Queen-CW Gortner (Holly)
Periodically I will post an update with everyone's # of books read/courts visited.
Thats it. And we're off!
I wanted to shoot for this one, but I'm not sure how many courts I'll end up visiting this year, as my reading travels are taking me in other historical places. I'll pop in a review link when I do have one though :)
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading my first book - Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman, and have linked to my review using Mister Linky above :-)
ReplyDeleteSigned up.. Please find my first review at http://crypticrunes.blogspot.com/2011/01/review-devil-water-by-anya-seton.html
ReplyDeleteFinally made it to a royal court :)
ReplyDeleteI see that I am not the first person to enjoy The Tudor Secret. :)
ReplyDeleteI just entered my visit to the court of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem above. I had never heard of him before but now I want to learn more about his reign. This book was also fun for me because the main character is a cousin of mine. :)
ReplyDeleteOops - I accidentally hit the enter key and Mr. Linky posted a review for another challenge. Please delete.
ReplyDeleteI just finished - The Oracle of Stamboul. It was such a great story set in a turn of the century Turkish court.
I just added my review for Susan Higginbotham's The Queen of Last Hopes.
ReplyDeleteI just added my review of Mara, Daughter of the Nile. I love Egyptian historical fiction. :)
ReplyDeleteJust added my review of Madame Tussaud. King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are in the novel enough to qualify me as having visited their court :-)
ReplyDeleteJust added my review of Virgin Widow by Anne O'Brien, which is about Anne Neville and takes place during the Wars of the Roses.
ReplyDeleteAdded my review of Elizabeth I by Margaret George.
ReplyDeleteJust added my review for The Other Boleyn Girl, by Philippa Gregory. It's funny, I'm up to 18 books for the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge over at Historical Tapestry, but only 2 of them have visited a royal court and qualified for this challenge. I assumed that way more of my HF reads this year would be about royalty, but I guess I was wrong! :-)
ReplyDeleteWow, everyone is doing great :) All of these that weren't on my wish list or TBR before, they are now!
ReplyDeleteI just posted my review of Kate Quinn's Daughters of Rome. I read this months back and hadn't thought of it as qualifying for this challenge, but I see another participant has included it. Considering four Roman emperors are featured prominently I guess they would count as Roman royalty.
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