--- On Wed, 16/6/10, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Deepa Mohan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, 16 June, 2010, 20:12
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
Sruthi Krishnan wrote, [on 6/16/2010 5:10 PM]:
> Haha.
> I picked up Heyer recently, and I think her books = MandB plot +
> Overdose of Victorian fashion + lots and lots of prudishness. Swoon.
I read Heyer for basically the same reason I read PGW. The language, the
semi-to-full-fledged-farce, and the comfort of the same story over and
over again.
Guilty. Georgette Heyer is among my favourites, too, and I agree (bad
word on this list) with Udhay about the reasons why I read it...and I do
savour all the "period" (as in dated, you dirty-minded lot) expressions
and idioms.....
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Incidentally, her details were spot on, from textile descriptions to Astley's
to vouchers for Almacks, to the Richmond extravaganza, to Plantagenet Britain,
to Norman France, to Spain in the Peninsular Wars - the whole bloody lot. Down
to the small detail of agricultural holdings. Amazing.
