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Georgette Heyer ONLY book club...

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LadyDamerel · 11/04/2012 22:28

...could we start one?

I know there are loads of GH fans on here, so what do you think?

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PassTheTwiglets · 14/04/2012 12:23

I can't swoon over the Duke of Avon 'cos in my head he looks like the bloke on the front cover of my version :)

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LadyDamerel · 14/04/2012 09:29

My favourite Heyer-ism is 'making a cake of oneself' I use it on the dcs fairly frequently!

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IAmSherlocked · 14/04/2012 09:16

Lavender - I have been known to make DH reassure me that he would ride 'ventre a terre' to my death bed (The Talisman Ring, anyone?!) Grin

IAmSherlocked · 14/04/2012 09:15

I love These Old Shades - one of my favourite. Only drawback to swooning over the Duke are the outfits - just don't find them as attractive as the breeches and boots ensembles of the Regency men. Blush A bit too powdered and painted for my taste. But his sinister personality is right up my (fantasy) street Grin

Hopefullyrecovering · 13/04/2012 23:19

I'm up for it! Does no-one swoon over the Duke of Avon?

LavenderCakes · 13/04/2012 23:19

Can I please please please join? I love GH in a sick obsessed way, to the extent of asking DH to "give me the word with no bark" on it t'other day. He looked at me as if I was barking, heehee.

Black Moth, you say. I'm on it.

MooncupGoddess · 13/04/2012 23:15

Yes, also as Infamous Army is really amazing book, in terms of emotional impact, character development, historical depth etc, whereas I found Spanish Bride a bit one-dimensional and just focused around the battles.

Really good idea for the book club, I am actually looking forward to rereading The Black Moth for the first time since teenage years.

Auntiestablishment · 13/04/2012 23:08

Mine are in chronological order (of publication) on my book case.

LeonieDeSaintVire · 13/04/2012 21:54

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Gigondas · 13/04/2012 21:38

I am- ESP as bloke in Spanish bride referred in infamous army .

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RosieMBanks · 13/04/2012 20:50

Love GH and have most of her books! This is a great site...
www.georgette-heyer.com/who.html
and 'The Black Moth' is available to read for free online.
www.georgette-heyer.com/books/blackmoth.html

CoffeeRevel · 13/04/2012 19:25

yay! Me too, me too! I love GH, and have all of her books as pdfs on my reader, but I haven't read some of them in ages. Black Moth it is then, I just hope I remember to look for the thread at the end of the month!

DilysPrice · 13/04/2012 19:20

It will be filed under Adult Fiction, and it will start on Monday 30th of April.
There - that's easy to find isn't it? There don't ever seem to be more than a handful of threads started in Adult Fiction per day; it's not exactly AIBU.

minipie · 13/04/2012 19:13

Ooh a Georgette Heyer appreciation thread. Can I join please?

I reckon I can discuss the Black Moth without having to re-read it since I've already re-read it a gazillion times along with most of the others Grin

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LadyDamerel · 13/04/2012 19:05

But if we don't there may be people who would like to join in but didn't realise what to read and when and where to be...

Oh the dilemma.

::frets::

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IAmSherlocked · 13/04/2012 19:03

But, but, if we start the new thread now, the swots super-keen readers will start discussing it straight away and then it will all descend into chaos Shock

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LadyDamerel · 13/04/2012 18:59

::pins Secretary badge to Sherlock's lapel::

Would you like to start the new thread now? Would that help you sleep tonight? Wink

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WyrdMother · 13/04/2012 18:57

It's been a long time, the teenaged day dreams I used to have about Hugh Claire Tracey Belmanoir (early manifestation of a bad boy thing).

IAmSherlocked · 13/04/2012 18:44

OK...

Black Moth.
Monday 30th April.
Separate threads for each book.
Chronological order by publication.

lazymonkeyface · 13/04/2012 18:31

Yey! Have ordered it :-D

so excited :-D

LeonieDeSaintVire · 13/04/2012 18:14

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DilysPrice · 13/04/2012 18:08

I'd vote separate threads because otherwise it would be a bore for someone who joins the party late to go back and find "what did they think if Powder and Patch?"

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LadyDamerel · 13/04/2012 17:55

Grin at all the control freaks organised folk on here.

Shall we have a separate thread to actually discuss each one on?

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DilysPrice · 13/04/2012 17:50

Right! Chronological order! Black Moth! Monday 30th April!

(Heyers are filed in loft conversion, hence this book club will keep me fit)

"Clad in his customary black and silver, with raven hair unpowered and elaborately dressed, diamonds on his fingers and in his cravat, Hugh Tracy Clare Belmanoir, Duke of Andover, sat at the escritoire in the library of his town house, writing.......

BTW, we mean chronologically by publication, not date of the action don't we? Because Black Moth would be first by both counts.