The glories of Dunnett

I have been listening for maybe the tenth time to Niccolo Rising on unabridge audio. The narrator is Steven Pacey, and he is astoundingly good. The recording is on tape rather than cd, which means I may have to keep my current car forever, as newer ones don’t have tape players anymore, and I love to listen to this book.

This morning I was listening to the part of the story where the Venetian galleys come to Bruge in the spring. I’ll post a paragraph or two later, out of sheer admiration and to expand on the point I was trying to make yesterday, when I gave Laura a headache.

30. January 2008 by historical fiction favorites prose

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My name is Rosina Lippi. I'm a former academic and tenured university professor,  writing full time since 2000. Under the pen name Sara Donati I am the author of the Wilderness series, six historical novels that follow the fortunes of a group of families living in upstate New York from about 1792-1825. A new series based on later generations of the same families was launched September 1, 2015 with The Gilded Hour. The next volume in the new series,  Where the Light Enters, was  released in 2019.

 

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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.

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