Historical Fictionistas discussion

Create a thread for yourself to use for building your trains. Please just edit the thread throughout the month.

Sandy from Alaska thread:

The Round House 3/29/14


Xtabentum: A Novel of Yucatan 3/5/14 Link: Native American (from their country) main characters
The Light in the Ruins 3/8/14 Link: Setting is during a war (WWII/Mexican revolution)
The Almond Tree 3/14/14 Link: Man on the cover
The Serpent and the Pearl 3/18/14 Link: Historical Fiction Genre
The Storyteller 3/11/14 Link: Girl on Cover
Hild 3/4/14 Link: Both have awards
Sons of Zeus 3/21/14 Link: Published in 2013
Spartans at the Gates: A Novel 3/24/14 Link: Warrior on the Cover

Choo Choo Thus train has reached the Station! (I'm done with this tread)

Thanks!

Any books that are sequels to the previous one get a "/" between the titles so they will just end up being one frickin' long cart. I just can't resist a good series. :P

The Complete Darkness Collection
genre link: gay (both contain gay men as main characters)
Bound: Forget Me Knot
link genre: contemporary (and both feature LGBT characters)
Bow Grip
link genre: lesbian (both are written by lesbians and have lesbian characters)
The Girls From Alcyone
link genre: war/military (both feature main characters who are military-style mercenaries)
The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece

link cover: soldier(s)

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
link genre: war/military (fighting)
Sword Song
link genre: adventure (more fighting)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
link genre: mystery (who is the Scarlet Pimpernel? who is the serial killer?)
Double Hue
link genre: crime (they both focus on solving a crime; Double Hue and Breaking Cover both have characters who try and catch a serial killer)
Life Lessons/Breaking Cover/Home Work/Learning Curve
link genre: thriller
Snow Crash
...and Snow Crash links with The Complete Darkness Collection since they are both set in dystopian societies (so I guess I'm really just going in circles :P).

This train has just arrived at the station!!

Chooochoooo

The Pianist

Cindy's Train of Books!

1.
2. (branches on cover)
3. (genre-Historical Fiction)
4. (Woman in coat on cover)
5. The Postmistress(WWII)
6. The Curse of the Pharaohs(Historical Fiction)
7. Cutting for Stone(Set in Africa)

A Circle of Wives

Golden State. Linked both main characters are doctors.

Burial Rites- Finished 3/22
Link: HF genre
The Serpent and the Pearl- Finished 3/31
Link: Both are first in a series
The Way of Kings- Finished 3/11
Link: Both have main characters who are apprentices
The Golem and the Jinni- Finished 3/12
Link: Debut book for both authors
Ready Player One- - Finished 3/17
Link: Key on the cover
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making- - Finished 3/23
Link: Genre- children's/young adult
The Wind in the Willows- Finished 3/28


*Edit- If the picture causes problems for anyone message to let me know and I will delete it out. I figure this is the easiest way to find my posting. :)

Melanie's Great White North Express (it's cold out)


The Yard
> Link: Genre (HF: Mystery)
Pride and Prescience: Or, A Truth Universally Acknowledged
> Link:

♪♫♫ Down at the station early in the morning ...♫♫♪

= (same word in title) = (author initials) = (genre mystery) = (genre mystery) = (genre mystery) = (authors same first name of Kate) = (genre HF)

Linda's Texas Train

1. linked to
2. because both have a young woman in period costume on the cover linked to
3. Beneath the Dover Skybecause they are both historic fiction linked to
4. Calling Me Homebecause they are historic fiction linked to
5. Lookaway, Lookaway because they both have major character named Dorrie

Cheryl's A-Train

1. Girl at Sea by Maureen Johnson
2. Beware This Boy by Maureen Jennings link: author initials
3. Mad About the Boy link: title word
4. The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl link: title word
5. The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King link: author initials
6. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America link: character with same name (Bones of Paris - Harris Stuyvesant, Island at the Center of the Earth - Peter Stuyvesant)
7. City of Silver: A Mystery link: both covers have drawings of 17th century colonial cities
8. Mistress of the Art of Death link: both covers have skulls
9. The Technologists by Matthew Pearl link: genre - historical fiction
10. Belle Cora by Phillip Margulies link: author initials
11. Belle Epoque link: title word
12. The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan link: genre - historical fiction/cultural - France
13. Midwives by Chris Bohjalian link: author initials

Louise's Book Train

1. Annette Vallon: A Novel of the French Revolution
2. Farewell, My Queen link: French Revolution
3. The Lady and the Unicorn link: authors' initials (CT)
4. The Serpent Garden Link: main character is a painter
5. Angels & Demons Link: a main character has the name Robert.
6. Why Kings Confess Link: genre - mystery
7. The Cavalier of the Apocalypse Link: both are mysteries which are linked to the Bourbon royal family of France.
8. Silent in the Sanctuary Link: old building on cover
9. The Invisible Code Link: genre - mystery

Ellen's Book Train:
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
A Simple Plan by Scott B Smith link: genre Thriller
Roman Blood by Steven Saylor link: authors' initials
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Conner link: title word
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. link: 1001 Books to Read b/f You Die

CassieV's Book Train:

City of Ashes

link: Genre- YA

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

link: Genre- Romance

The Queen's Fool

link: Genre- Women's Fiction

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

link: Genre- Romance

Frederica

Diana S' Reading Train
Duration: March 1 - 31
Books Read: 4


Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley (Author Initials)
The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lilian Jackson Braun (Mystery)
Devil's Food Cake Murder by Joanna Fluke (cat owners)

Cargo

Visions of Glory by John Pontius

One of Ours by Willa Cather

(Prominent celestial body on cover)
So Big by Edna Ferber
(both Pulitzer Prize winners)
Penguin Island by Anatole France
(both Prize winners: Pulitzer/Nobel)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
(both Nobel Prize winners)
And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
(both Prize winners: Nobel/Newberry)
Hitty Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
(both Newberry Award winners)
Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge
(both award winners: Newberry/Pulitzer

The Reading Express
Dying for Chocolate-A Pedigree To Die For(mystery)

Shawn's March 2014 reading train: