2006: #68 – Letters from an Age of Reason

Title: Letters from an Age of Reason Author: Nora Hague Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Harper Collins Release Date: October 15, 2002 Pages: 656 An eloquent debut novel set amid two historical hotbeds of racial tension, moral hypocrisy, and shifting sexual convention Miss Arabella Leeds, the high-spirited teenage daughter of a prominent New York family, and Aubrey “Brie” Paxton, the “high yellow” pampered house servant of

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2006: #31 – The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog (Elizabeth Peters)

Book #31 was The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog, the 7th book in Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody series. I enjoy these books because they combine two of my favorite things — a mystery and a book with a historical bent! Another one of those series I started in the middle and am now trying to play catch up. Book count: 31 Pages in book:

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