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MedicineWoman

Historical all the way! Reading historical romance and historical mysteries with an occasional (women’s sports) nonfiction title mixed in. 🐈🐈‍⬛🩺📚🌻🪴⚽️🎾

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Fated Mates Book Club: Romance Books for Novel People
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My Taste
A Matter of Class: A Novel
Who Will Remember (Sebastian St. Cyr, #20)
The Belle of Belgrave Square (Belles of London, #2)
The Matter of the Secret Bride (Rosalind Thorne Mysteries #8)
A Shore Thing
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The Poison Puzzle (Emma Langley Victorian Mystery #2)

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  • An Unconditional Freedom (The Loyal League, #3)
    MedicineWoman
    Sep 14, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0

    A poignant historical romance that does not hide the harsh realities of slavery set during the American civil war. Difficult to read at times, but necessary if you want to learn. Totally engrossing, especially near the end. Am still worried about some characters though.

    The author’s note also struck a chord, especially considering what happened since this book was published.

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  • To Catch a Raven (Women Who Dare, #3)
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    Sep 06, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 2.5

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  • Samantha and the Cowboy
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    Aug 31, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

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  • lucepuce
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    Libraries and bookshops recs in Bristol (UK)

    Hi everyone! I'll be studying in Bristol for a year starting in September and I don't know England (much less Bristol) at all, seeing as I've always lived in France.

    Does anyone have advice on where to buy or borrow books there? I love all kinds of fantasy, romance, YA, sci-fi and sometimes thriller books!

    I'd be happy connect if anyone else is there for next year :)

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  • MedicineWoman completed their yearly reading goal of 60 books!

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    MedicineWoman's 2025 Reading Challenge

    65 of 60 read
    Who Will Remember (Sebastian St. Cyr, #20)
    Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
    Murder at Beechwood (Gilded Newport Mysteries, #3)
    Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You
    The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
    Murder at Marble House  (Gilded Newport Mysteries, #2)
    Murder at the Breakers (Gilded Newport Mysteries #1)
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  • A Silence in Belgrave Square (A Below Stairs Mystery, #8)
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    Aug 30, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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  • The Duke and Lady Scandal (Princes of London #1)
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    Aug 30, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0

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  • A Deceptive Composition (Lady Darby Mystery, #12)
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    Aug 30, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0

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  • Unmaking of Historical Romance (Bookriot)

    Bookriot has written an in depth article about the declining sales of historical romance with quotes from many well-known HR authors, like Mimi Matthews, Sarah Maclean, Joanna Shupe and Liana de la Rosa. I am a huge fan of historical romance and this trend of established HR authors being pushed into other genres by publishers makes me very sad. I also learned from this article that the mass market paperback is officially dead per the end of 2025. I knew this was happening (even Harlequins shifted to a larger format), but this also makes me very, very sad. I adore my large collection of mass market historical romances.

    Are you still reading HR?

    Article link: https://bookriot.com/unmaking-of-the-historical-romance-genre/

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  • A Cold Highland Wind (Lady Emily, #17)
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    Aug 15, 2025
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  • A Swirl of Shadows (Lady Arianna Regency Mystery, #7)
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    Aug 15, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 4.0

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  • The Thunder of Stones (A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery, #8)
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    Aug 15, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0

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    A Swirl of Shadows (Lady Arianna Regency Mystery, #7)

    A Swirl of Shadows (Lady Arianna Regency Mystery, #7)

    Andrea Penrose

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