Comments on: Weekly Geeks: About Historical Fiction

By: susan

susan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:32:44 +0000

Reading your post alone is entertaining. Enjoy this. The Willis book sounds like something I might enjoy. Thanks.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:08:13 +0000

I enjoyed Devil in the White City. I forgot about it since it didn’t feel like a historical book.
Historical romances are my guilty pleasure!

By: Rikki

Rikki — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:55:47 +0000

Those old book covers look awesome. They are something different.

By: Melissa P

Melissa P — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:23:00 +0000

I love looking at these old book covers! Too often I’m attracted to a book simply by its cover…plus they give such great visual evidence of that time period. Great post!

By: ItsDarkInTheDark

ItsDarkInTheDark — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:22:16 +0000

Thanks for all the kind words. I’ve never read any of the Star Trek novels, but I’ve watched about every episode.

It’s funny that I get guilty about reading books when I have no shame when I’m in a bookstore. I’ll ask the staff in a bookstore just about anything.

Thanks for the kind words, Claire!

By: Maree

Maree — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:14:33 +0000

Those are great covers :)
I loved The Stress of Her Regard _ I read it many years ago.
If I have any guilty reading pleasure … it’s Star Trek novels.

By: Bernadette

Bernadette — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:50:20 +0000

What a great post. And I agree that reading stuff that was written in the time it was set has a different, much more authentic feel to it.

As for guilty pleasures…I refuse to feel guilty for anything I read these days. I’ve done the “I only read worthy tomes” thing but have finally realised life’s too short – Outside of work hours I read what I want to read and love every minute of it :D

By: claire

claire — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:23:46 +0000

What a great post! I doubt if I’ll be reading any of those, but I remember seeing a few books that looked like that in my dad’s shelves a long time ago. And, btw, love those covers. I always enjoy your Weekly Geeks posts. So clever and amusing. :D