Year of the Historical
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
forthcoming
Monthly Year of the Historical Posts/Participant Reviews
Year of the Historical Challenge: January (forthcoming)
November 2009
October 2009
September 22, 2009
December 1, 2009
December 29, 2009
August 2009
December 29, 2009
August 25, 2009
September 2009
November 3, 2009
August 4, 2009
October 13, 2009
September 1, 2009
December 1, 2009
January 5, 2010
February 23, 2010
October 28, 2008
February 2, 2010
February 2, 2010
February 2, 2010
February 23, 2010
March 2, 2010
March 23, 2010
May 3, 2010
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!