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Swept Away
Book by Andresen, Julie Tetel, Tetel, Julie
355 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1989
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Julie Tetel Andresen
41 books40 followersAlso known as Julie Tetel and Julia Joyce
Julie Tetel Andresen has always loved history, travel and foreign languages. She has lived for extended periods in Germany, France, Romania and Vietnam. When she is not out of the country, she can be found in Durham, North Carolina or Orlando, Florida, as well as New York City.
She grew up with a passion for playing the piano. As an adult she transferred that passion into writing romance novels and scholarly books about language. She likens writing essays in foreign languages to playing scales and arpeggios as warm-up exercises for writing in English. She also practices yoga on a regular basis and thinks of learning new grammatical forms as trying new mental asanas: can she get her leg behind her head in Romanian or get into full lotus in Vietnamese? No? Well, then, how about triangle pose or half-lotus?
Julie Tetel Andresen has always loved history, travel and foreign languages. She has lived for extended periods in Germany, France, Romania and Vietnam. When she is not out of the country, she can be found in Durham, North Carolina or Orlando, Florida, as well as New York City.
She grew up with a passion for playing the piano. As an adult she transferred that passion into writing romance novels and scholarly books about language. She likens writing essays in foreign languages to playing scales and arpeggios as warm-up exercises for writing in English. She also practices yoga on a regular basis and thinks of learning new grammatical forms as trying new mental asanas: can she get her leg behind her head in Romanian or get into full lotus in Vietnamese? No? Well, then, how about triangle pose or half-lotus?
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September 5, 2023
Such fun!
A wonderfully amusing book, and well worth reading, despite the oddity of its period in history. Having previously read the author’s regencies, I did feel that the particular period this is set in had more to do with the manners and clothing, etc., of the regency, not the time of the second King James, roughly 200 years earlier. However, despite that, it was a rollicking good read, and I thoroughly recommend it.
A wonderfully amusing book, and well worth reading, despite the oddity of its period in history. Having previously read the author’s regencies, I did feel that the particular period this is set in had more to do with the manners and clothing, etc., of the regency, not the time of the second King James, roughly 200 years earlier. However, despite that, it was a rollicking good read, and I thoroughly recommend it.
January 23, 2021
I really enjoyed this. Over the top, with a sense of humor.
August 18, 2012
Great good fun! Lively characters, great adventure story, excellent writing. Thoroughly enjoyable...
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