Group Reads 2017/2018

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

I forgot to mention when voting finishes. Sunday my time, Saturday for most of you. :)

[QNPoohBear]

Bath Tangle! My first Heyer Regency. I really like it and I can identify with Serena.

[Kim]

I feel like I've read Bath Tangle recently, so as I have not read Beauvellet since the first time lo these many years ago, I am voting for it.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Beauvallet - 3 votes
Bath Tangle - 2 votes
The Great Roxhythe - 0 votes

[Jay-me (Janet)]

Bath Tangle

(because I will be reading it anyway as it is next in my rotating pile of paperbacks)

[Louise Sparrow]

I'll vote for Beauvallet, because it's another one I need encouragement to read again.

[Karlyne]

I'm going to say Bath Tangle, just because I'm pretty sure there will be lots of discussion on it.

[Lesley]

I can't get hold of The Great Roxhythe, and I've not read Bath Tangle or Beauvallet for ages, so I'm okay with either of those. In fact it looks like Beauvallet will be easier to get hold of (less on the waiting list), so I'll make my vote for that.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Lesley~aka Ella's Gran wrote: "I can't get hold of The Great Roxhythe, and I've not read Bath Tangle or Beauvallet for ages, so I'm okay with either of those. In fact it looks like Beauvallet will be easier to get hold of (less ..."

Yes it looks like TGR was reprinted in the States by Buccaneer Press, so it may be easier to get hold of. I wouldn't think it would be worth paying collector prices for the old editions unless you are a Heyer completist. However, I gave my Heyer loving friend an old copy & she loved it - didn't see why I found it so funny!

[Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review)]

I will vote for Beauvallet as I have never read it and I don't like Bath Tangle :(

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Beauvallet - 6 votes
Bath Tangle - 4 votes
The Great Roxhythe - 0 votes.

[Lanelle]

I think Bath Tangle will create some good discussions. I vote for Bath Tangle.

[Sheila (in LA)]

I agree about Bath Tangle, so I vote for that one.

[Teresa]

Bath Tangle. Haven't read it for a long time.

[Critterbee❇]

Beauvallet, if you please!

[Jan]

Bath Tangle. Sorry, but I never liked Beauvallet. And I'm afraid The Great Roxhythe has little appeal for me.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Bath Tangle - 8 votes
Beauvallet - 7 votes
The Great Roxhythe - 0

[Christine PNW]

I own both Bath Tangle & Beauvallet, so either of those two is fine with me. I'm going to vote for Beauvallet, because I love it when Heyer goes into swashbuckling mode.

[Critterbee❇]

Oooh this is a tight race!

[Andrea AKA Catsos Person]

Bath Tangle

[Abigail]

I believe I’ve never read Beauvallet, so I guess I’ll vote for that.

[Susan in Perthshire]

Bath Tangle

[Melissa]

Beauvallet, please! It's been decades since I read it.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Welcome Melmuse!

Beauvallet - 10
Bath Tangle - 10
The Great Roxhythe - 0

[Ellen]

My vote is for Beauvallet.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Ellen wrote: "My vote is for Beauvallet."

& Ellen's vote makes Beauvallet our winner. I am excited about that. It is the only GH that hasn't had a group read that isn't a mystery or a Regency that really deserves one.

At some point I'll reread The Great Roxhythe but give it a thread in the Books folder. It is too hard or most members to get hold of &, as a read, IMO not worth paying collector prices for.

My Lord John & Royal Escape also don't have a Book thread or a Group Read.

[Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review)]

Woo hoo!

[Barb in Maryland]

Poor 'My Lord John'. In her effort to write a serious book, GH produced a humorless, wooden (though very well-researched!) story. The characters had no life to them.
I read it right after it came out (indeed, I shelled out good money for the hardback) and was so disappointed that I never re-read it.
I found 'Royal Escape' to be embarrassingly bad. {{shudder}}

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

I'm intending to reread all of my GH's other than My Lord John- but Royal Escape will be the last one.

(I don't own Helen)

If there is a fan of MLJ here - don't let me put you off - you can always set up a thread in the Books discussion. :)

[Karlyne]

I think if I'd read Royal Escape & MLJ back when I was a kid and very much into historical fiction I would have liked them. But as an adult, I found them to be mostly yawn-worthy.

[Kim]

I had romantic ideas about Bonnie Prince Charlie from the Scottish side of my family, so I enjoyed it as a teen. But after reading history, and visiting Culloden, I view him much differently now. More Outlander, dreadful consequences for the Scottish people.

[Karlyne]

I remember reading about the romantic Flora MacDonald, but I have no idea of which books they were, and I doubt I'd find them enjoyable now! Culloden- horrible.

[Vasoula]

Carol ♔Type, Oh Queen!♕ wrote: "& time to make our decision about our November read - our final group read of the year.

As usual this will be by consensus.:)

I am going to make a strong plea for Beauvallet If we ..."

I would like to vote in favor of Bath Tangle.

[Teresa]

I think Beauvallet has won it already Vasoula.

[Vasoula]

Teresa wrote: "I think Beauvallet has won it already Vasoula."

:(

[Susan in Perthshire]

Kim wrote: "I had romantic ideas about Bonnie Prince Charlie from the Scottish side of my family, so I enjoyed it as a teen. But after reading history, and visiting Culloden, I view him much differently now. M..."

I sympathise Kim - I used to be the same - then I studied the period at University! This was not just tragic for the Scottish people. It was not a simple English v Scots fight. Bonnie Prince Charlie had loads and loads of supporters in England; folk who supported the Catholic, Stuart cause. Equally, there were many Scots - lowlanders mainly - but not exclusively - who totally opposed the Catholic Stuart attempt to regain the Crown and who supported the Protestant, Parliamentarians who believed the choice of who was King was not down to some kind of Divine inheritance but the choice of the people. Charles and his army got as far south as Derby. At that point King George was getting ready to leave for Europe and Parliament was debating what to do. Who knows what would have happened if he had continued south? Instead, he turned round and headed back north. We all know what happened then:- an absolute bloodbath which to this day affects us.

[Teresa]

Strange reading these comments here as I'm presently doing a course online about Bonnie Prince Charlie. It's really interesting.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Teresa wrote: "I think Beauvallet has won it already Vasoula."

Yes sorry Vasoula - message #576. :)

[Rosina]

Teresa wrote: "Strange reading these comments here as I'm presently doing a course online about Bonnie Prince Charlie. It's really interesting."

But I'm not quite sure which book the comments relate to - not to Royal Escape!

[Karlyne]

I'm not sure how we got onto him, either! It's been years since I read Royal Escape but that's Charles Ii, right? I remember it being depressing, but that's about it.

[Karlyne]

And The Child from the Sea by Elizabeth Goudge is the same setting. I remember it as being depressing, too, and I never reread it - and she's one of my top 10 aithors.

[Rosina]

Karlyne wrote: "I'm not sure how we got onto him, either! It's been years since I read Royal Escape but that's Charles Ii, right? I remember it being depressing, but that's about it."

Oak trees, not bonny boats, as I remember.

On the other hand, my favourite book about the Jacobite Rebellion is The Flight of the Heron, by D K Broster.

[Jenny]

Rosina wrote: "...On the other hand, my favourite book about the Jacobite Rebellion is The Flight of the Heron, by D K Broster. ."

Oh yes! I first read it 50 years ago as a teenager, and I still cry every time.
But leagues on leagues away, the tide from the Outer Isles was beginning to fill the silver cup of Morar; and he stood there once again, helpless and heartbroken...

The two sequels make me cry, too, but this one is a perfect classic tragedy.

[Rosina]

Jenny wrote: "Oh yes! I first read it 50 years ago as a teenager, and I still cry every time.
But leagues on leagues away, the tide from the Outer Isles was beginning to fill the silver cup of Morar; and he stood there once again, helpless and heartbroken...

The two sequels make me cry, too, but this one is a perfect classic tragedy. "

Me too! Sniffles ...

Back to Heyer, via D K Broster. There is a reference in "Mr Rowl" to "some English ensign of the Light Division" who married a Spanish lady after the seige of Badajoz. The lack of precision (Harry wasn't an Ensign, after all) is presumably deliberate, since it was being recalled by someone who just remembers it as a news item. "Mr Rowl" was pubished in 1924, so quite some time before Heyer took the story up.

[Critterbee❇]

Hey just a general inquiry - is there a link to a list of the regencies that we will read in order beginning 2018?

[Critterbee❇]

Apologies if that last message didn't make sense.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

❇Critterbee wrote: "Hey just a general inquiry - is there a link to a list of the regencies that we will read in order beginning 2018?"

It's in this thread https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Message #32

[Critterbee❇]

Thanks, Carol!