Mastodawn

I read 81 books (approximately) in 2025. My most read author is #GeorgetteHeyer - who I comfort read frequently!
My favourite non-fic was The Rise & Reign of Mammals by palaeontologist Steve Brusatte. A follow up to his book on dinosaurs which was equally fascinating.
My favourite children’s book was Stonewitch by Sky McKenna. Book four of her excellent hedgewitch series. My 10yo & I adore them! Great characters and world building based on myths from the British isles. @bookstodon #books #reading

Rachel Wright Mar 21, 2024

Four years ago, at the beginning of lockdown in the UK, someone (not here, or I would credit her) suggested reading one of #GeorgetteHeyer 's romantic comedies as a distraction, and the #GeorgetteHeyerReadalong was born. It ran on Twitter for two years, as close as I can remember, and because of it, I met a whole host of funny, feisty people. Their book recommendations are much better than average, their conversations veer from serious to surreal, and their unstinting support for one another is something I've never previously experienced outside my immediate family.
Happy Dowagers Day!
#DowagersAssemble

Excessively Diverting Feb 11, 2024

For Valentine’s Day, 6 audiobooks: romantic, raunchy or #Regency

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/02/10/audiobooks-romance-valentines-day/

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #GeorgetteHeyer

For Valentine’s Day, 6 audiobooks: romantic, raunchy or Regency

Whether you like Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer or something more real — or raunchy — we have a love story for your listening pleasure.

The Washington Post

Rachel Wright Jan 17, 2024

Lest anyone should feel my life has been insufficiently changed by #DreamsOfAmarna - here I am, using a curved needle voluntarily!

I'm covering a minaudière. Most people use glue, but it went Very Ill when I tried it. Something I have in common with Anthea Darracott!

#IHopeItWorks #GeorgetteHeyer

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FrancescaJ Jan 1, 2024

Fave 2023 reads cont…

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady memoir about growing up as a non-diagnosed autistic woman

Hedgewitch by Skye McKenna my 8yo has listened to the audiobook at least 5 times and I’ve loved it every time!

Underland: A deep time journey by Robert Macfarlane science/nature/a token male

And any number of #GeorgetteHeyer ‘s because how could I pick one!

Dishonourable mention to Wings of Fire which is my 11yo’s #BedtimeReading and by the 13th book it’s wearing thin…

Tigg aka Sandra Lindsey Nov 23, 2023

I have a confession.

Today I finished reading my very first Georgette Heyer novel.

I know! How can I possibly write Regency Romance without having inhaled all her works years ago...
...tbh, they always sounded a bit too het for me, is why I've not read until now.

But anyway! I really enjoyed it - The Corinthian - so if anyone would like to recommend me their fave #GeorgetteHeyer novel to read next, please do!

@romancelandia

azteclady Nov 2, 2023

@romancelandia

Dr Laura Vivanco on the "new and improved" revisionist editions of Heyer's most antisemitic works:

#RomBkBlog
#Antisemitis #GeorgetteHeyer #Sourcebooks

https://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2023/11/controversial-updated-editions-of.html

Controversial "updated" editions of romance (and also details of some new publications)

K. J. Charles (on BlueSky, which I don't think I can link to) posted a link to a New York Times article about new editions of Heyer with th...

Rachel Wright Oct 18, 2023

I shall call this shawl #AntheaDarracott. The design is distantly inspired by the Etruscan pattern in #JaneAustenEmbroidery, by @Jen and Alison Larkin.
#GeorgetteHeyer #DowagersAssemble #GeorgetteHeyerReadAlong
#embroidery #HandEmbroidery

Jennie Batchelor Aug 21, 2023

Been reading the copy of Faro’s Daughter by #GeorgetteHeyer I bought on holiday on and off and last night a leaflet fell out: an early 1950s pamphlet for the Regent’s Institute (promising to turn amateurs into journalists and magazine writers for an undisclosed “small” fee). I am now obsessed with The Regent’s Institute (followers of my work on the Lady’s Magazine will know I’m interested in so-called amateur writing). I know Christopher Hilliard has written about the Institute a bit. Who else?

azteclady Aug 17, 2023

Via Steve Ammidown: "It’s #GeorgetteHeyer’s birthday, so let’s remember that she loved inserting antisemitism into her “foundational” Regency romances!"

@romancelandia Essay by Felicia Grossman:
https://romancedailynews.medium.com/guest-post-georgette-heyer-was-an-antisemite-and-her-work-is-not-foundational-historical-romance-fc00bfc7c26

You can buy her just-released historical romance, featuring two Jewish main characters, right now:
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/felicia-grossman/marry-me-by-midnight/9781538722541/?lens=forever