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oritsu_luv) wrote2011-12-13 05:26 pm
oritsu_luv) wrote2011-12-13 05:26 pm
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Day 13 :: A fictional book
Day 13 :: A fictional book
Hmm...I already posted the book I'm reading...so what else should I post...
Let's try...
The Masqueraders, but Georgette Heyer. (1928)
A comfort book of mine, this my favorite Heyer, even though it's very different from her usual far, both in time period (being set in the the Georgian period, around 1747) and in plot.
Robin and Prudence have lived a life of adventure and scheming to the tune of their self-styled genius father's piping, one that lead them to the wrong side of the Jacobite uprising, and now has brother and sister obliged to re-enter London society as sister and brother, while the await their father. Robin is now a beautiful and flirtatious young woman named Kate, and Prudence, the young stripling Peter. The masquerade goes well because neither sibling is a stranger to pretend, but when Prudence meets Sir Anthony, she begins to doubt the wisdom of this new scheme...
Cross dressing twins, mistaken (and revealed) identities, swindles, intrigue, masked balls...it has everything, including a twist so unexpected that I exclaimed outloud and then spent the entire day explaining it to my family, none of whom really cared.
(Also went around saying things like 'Lud!' and prefencing sentences with 'La', and generally talking like it was the 18th century.)
Lastly, Robin is my favorite forever. Also, a Lulzy 80's era cover here
Hmm...I already posted the book I'm reading...so what else should I post...
Let's try...
The Masqueraders, but Georgette Heyer. (1928)
A comfort book of mine, this my favorite Heyer, even though it's very different from her usual far, both in time period (being set in the the Georgian period, around 1747) and in plot.
Robin and Prudence have lived a life of adventure and scheming to the tune of their self-styled genius father's piping, one that lead them to the wrong side of the Jacobite uprising, and now has brother and sister obliged to re-enter London society as sister and brother, while the await their father. Robin is now a beautiful and flirtatious young woman named Kate, and Prudence, the young stripling Peter. The masquerade goes well because neither sibling is a stranger to pretend, but when Prudence meets Sir Anthony, she begins to doubt the wisdom of this new scheme...
Cross dressing twins, mistaken (and revealed) identities, swindles, intrigue, masked balls...it has everything, including a twist so unexpected that I exclaimed outloud and then spent the entire day explaining it to my family, none of whom really cared.
(Also went around saying things like 'Lud!' and prefencing sentences with 'La', and generally talking like it was the 18th century.)
Lastly, Robin is my favorite forever. Also, a Lulzy 80's era cover here