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I'm starting to have flashbacks of when I worked in a bookstore.

I'm seeing an entirely new aspect to Metternich that I might never have known.

When the specially outfitted train was mentioned, I immediately thought, "So this is how James West got his start!"

Only just started. No time for anything of consequence to happen beyond the cavalry squad becoming vampire fodder.

A fantasy set in late 19th time frame that read a bit like a western. I like fantasies that try and break out of the medieval setting mold.

Forget the piano, nothing less than six metric tons will do. What an ass.

"Before we throw our guests into the family game of 'snap and snarl', why doesn't somebody finish the introductions?"

I'd like a piano dropped on Theran.

Will need to find the second book in the series soon

Yes, I'm enjoying it but I'm just not accustomed to guys liking Jane Austen and admitting it.

I'm listening to the audio and I'm not sure I can take the mispronunciations much longer. I may need to switch to the book.

Whenever I read about the imperial couple I always start out wondering if this train wreck could have been avoided and the answer is always the same. No.

Am only able to finish because I started skimming instead of reading.

So far I'd say the reviews are correct. I already dislike her characterizations.

I don't know that I would have resisted the temptation to name a price.

Reading Author's Notes first. Why? Because they're really amusing.

Lynne and Thom might consider adding this to their lists.

I see it's already on Lynne's wishlist...

Published in 1922, a cookbook embedded in the year of a life of a fictional family (apparently the second in a series). Amused that the Meat Pie recipe didn't have any meat listed in the ingredients.

She isn't going to like that. (He doesn't seem to be too pleased either.)

Oh, good, a plucky heroine. I was hoping there'd be one but since women tended to be such non-entities in ancient Athens I was wondering if it would happen.

Interesting tidbit on popping corn back in the colonial period using sand. Less fattening but much more wearing on the teeth I should think if the sand wasn't completely sieved out.

Always nice to have a pronunciation guide to the names. If only Tolstoy had thought of that...

Hearing Louisa May Alcott described as a testy morphine addict got a chuckle out of me. (Laura Ingalls Wilder isn't until Chapter 9)

Mrs. Pollifax was not sent to Albania, she was sent to Mexico but was kidnapped and taken to Albania. Did the author even read the book? Or just a cover blurb.