I'm looking for a long thick paged series to read, sink into, escape to this summer... historical fiction is my favorite. What would you suggest?
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My very favorite is an old series by Manning Coles, about Tommy Hambleton,
whom I fell in love with many years ago. These were written during or shortly
after WW2, about an English man who joins the British secret service, and does
a lot of time in Germany after getting amnesia, and thinks he is a German. He
has a chance to kill Hitler, thinks he is the nephew of an old German woman he
takes care of, is smart, inventive and funny in parts. The authors did work with
British intelligence at that time, so it does have a sense of reality. And he/they
also wrote a series of ghost stories, with two charming men who came back,
doing things that prove funny as well as interesting.
I read these over and over, since some of the time our own news is just too brutal at times to worry about.
And then there's the Donna Andrews series, I'm already signed up for her new one coming out next month, Stork Raving Mad.
And I'm one of the most frequent visitors to our library, love it dearly. Plus,
it has a large room with used books that range from about 10 cents to hard
backs that are never over 2 dollars!!