Search Results for "Georgette Heyer": 7 results
Heyer, Georgette: Arabella: Took the MPRE today, so needed something small to bring along. Georgette Heyer's Arabella seemed to fit the bill just fine; lightweight in both senses of the word, just the thing for a possibly-stressful day. (Turns it out wasn't,...
Heyer, Georgette: Foundling, The: Last Sunday was the changeover to Daylight Saving Time, and after running some errands in the morning, I wanted nothing so much as to sleep. But as that would have been a terrible idea, I picked up Georgette Heyer's...
Heyer, Georgette: Friday's Child (radio play): Either Georgette Heyer's books don't work well as radio plays, or Friday's Child is not very good. Or, I suppose, both. But really, while I was listening to this marriage-of-convenience / lifelong-friend-with-hidden-love romance, all I could think was, "Good grief,...
Heyer, Georgette: Grand Sophy, The: I sometimes say that a willingness to pore over the shelves of used bookstores is the surest sign that one is an optimist. Well, sometimes one's optimism is rewarded. I visited some of my favorite stores in Boston today,...
Heyer, Georgette: Toll-Gate, The: Yesterday at lunchtime I was just too tired to deal with the sexual assault that was going to take place next in the book I was re-reading, so I picked up The Toll-Gate by Georgette Heyer. I didn't know...
Heyer, Georgette: Unknown Ajax, The: I suppose I might also have been thinking of The Unknown Ajax when thinking about Heyer's tendency to focus on family dynamics [with regard to Venetia]. It's one of my favorite Heyers and has been reprinted (along with A Civil...
Heyer, Georgette: Venetia: Georgette Heyer's Venetia is frequently described as one of the few good Regencies of the rake/innocent variety. I very much enjoyed it, but found that it had less plot than I expected. As I recall, it had some family problems...