Hi! Welcome to the central hub for Year of the Historical, Lurv’s 2010 reading challenge. This is basically my personal arena, where you, fellow participant, can get a shortcut to any rules for the challenge, as well as see what I might be trying to read for this challenge throughout the year. I’ll link any reviews I do here, as well as link the individual posts that participants link their reviews in. Make sense? Again, this is strictly for my benefit, and where appropriate, yours. If you are viewing this and participating in the challenge, I do not require you do this as part of the challenge. You are however very welcome to do so if you want.
Basic Rules/Guidelines
- Sign up here if you plan to participate, pretty please.
- You may read any historical fiction book for this challenge: straight historical fiction set in the English Regency, or in Asia, or in Europe, or in Africa, or in Prehistoric times etc. You may read young adult, romances, historical paranormal romances (i.e. Kim Lenox’s Shadow Guard series), historical fantasy – as long as it takes place in a historical time that at least originated with a real historic time period or event (therefore YES, steampunk is an option!) and it is fiction, it is game. Please, no nonfiction, biographies, or the like.
- Please label your reviews in a way that associates them with this challenge. I’ll be using “YotH: (Book Title)” format for my review headers AND linking the original challenge notice/sign up post in each review so that interested readers can see why/what challenge it’s associated with.
- I will do a post every month during the last week – this is where you need to link, in the comments section, your monthly review. I will then edit into the body of the post links for everyone’s reviews.
- There is no limit to how many reviews you can do per month, but I am only requiring one review for a total of 12 books.
- Have fun!
Historical Books KMont’s Contemplating
- A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
- Silent In The Grave by Deanna Raybourn
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- The Darcys & the Bingleys: A Tale of Two Gentlemen’s Marriages to Two Most Devoted Sisters by Marsha Altman
- The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
- Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, Book 1) by Elizabeth Peters
- A Hint of Wicked by Jennifer Haymore
- The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
KMont’s YotH Reviews
January – Wicked All Day by Liz Carlyle
April – The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber
June – Gold Mountain by Sharon Cullars (ebook)
Monthly Year of the Historical Posts/Participant Reviews
Please follow the appropriate link below to post your monthly reviews. Thank you!
Year of the Historical Challenge: January
Year of the Historical Challenge: February
Year of the Historical Challenge: March
Year of the Historical Challenge: April
Year of the Historical Challenge: May
Year of the Historical Challenge: June
Year of the Historical Challenge: July
Year of the Historical Challenge: August
Year of the Historical Challenge: September
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This is great, KMont! Count me in for sure… I’ve really delved into historical romances this year like I’ve never done before and I’m loving it! I’m pretty sure I’ve already read 12 in 2009. And the year’s not over!!! :grin:
Love the graphic, too.
Great, thanks for signing up! I’ve got so many historical romances I need to read, so hoping this challenge gets my butt into gear. And thanks, glad you like the button. ;)
Hi, I signed up as well. Sounds like fun.
This sounds excellent- I’m signing up now!
Historical Fiction is my absolute Favorite!! I’m signing up :)
Ooh, I’ll sign up! Mainly because historical fiction is one of my two main genres and I have a feeling I’ll have no difficulty doing the challenge :-) Thanks for hosting!
I have a quick question. Does a book that goes back and forth from past to present count as historical fiction?
That’s a good question. I would say yes so long as the historical sections of the book have a direct bearing on the overall story, which I suspect they would else why be in there. :)
One more question: Do mysteries such as The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl count?
Many people have asked if historical mysteries are OK for this and yes, they certainly are. So long as any book participants read includes a historical background, events, etc, then it’s in. I’m not going to doggedly examine each book someone reads for the challenge – I know yall know your books and trust that you will indeed read books with at least some historical context.
The only other requirement that is just as important, in my opinion, is that the books be fiction, not non-fiction, biographies, etc.
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions! I’m looking forward to the challenge!
I have The Russian Concubine on my list, too. Memoirs of a Geisha is one of my favorite reads. I didn’t think of The Luxe. I have been wanting to read it. If my library has it, it is definitely going to be read for this challenge!
What a great list you have there. I have mine all lined up and ready to go. Thanks for hosting.
Hi!
I have my first book for this reading challenge. It is Our Hart by Lloyd Lofthouse. It is a free review book, I hope this counts. My review is at my place, A View of My Life.
Sherrie
Hi, Sherri. I’ll be doing a blog post at the end of each month and ask that participants post the links for their reviews in the comments section there. I’ll then make a running list of all the participants reviews in that post so that everyone can see what everyone else is reviewing. Hopefully this will keep it all more organized. Please try to post your review link in that post; it’ll go up during the week of January 25-29. Thanks!
If it is okay to do an “old” book, I would like to do “The King’s Pleasure” by Norah Lofts for January.
Sure! Age is no object. :D
thanks for doing this challenge.
I posted a page with ALL current reading challenges. Let me know if you want me to add any other information about yours. I hope it brings even more readers to your challenge!
Reading Challenges.
Rachelle (Bibliobabe)
Rachelle, thank you. I appreciate it!
Do I have to do reviews, to be inthis challrnge???? I hate4 reveiwing, rather not read if i have to.
Hi!
I’ve read all 12 books for this challenge. My wrap up is posted at my place. Have a great day!
Sherrie
Just Books
Sherri, apologies, for some reason your comment was caught in my spam filter. Fixed, hopefully won’t happen again. :) Congrats on reading the 12 books! I need to get a serious move on!
No blog so here it is
1. Garwood, Julie Gentle Warrior
2. Lofts, Nora Gad’s Hall
3. Yerby, Frank Devilseed
4. Holland, Cecelia The Angle and the Sword
5. Fyrbee, Mary Rodd Outrageous Woman of the Civil War
6. Garwood, Julie Prince Charming
7. Stirtevant, Katherine The Sign at the Star
8. Springer, Nancy The Casse of the Bizarre Bouquets
9. Quick, Amanda Second Sight
10. Garwood, Julie One Pink Rose
11. Erickson, Carolly The Tsarina’s Daughter
12. Garwood, Julie Saving Grace
12. Spark, Muriel The Abbess of Crewe
13. Andrews, V C Landry series 5 books set in 1960
14. Quick, Amanda The Perfect Poison
15. Putney, Mary Jo A Kiss of Fate
16. Putney, Mary JO Stolen Magic
Sounds like a good list! There’s several there that I used to read, authors I mean. Julie Garwood was one of my first romance authors. ;)
Here is my year end recap:
http://www.fallinlovewithbooks.com/2010/12/2010-year-of-historical-challenge-recap.html