Forever Amber | 
pickAnd that is a wrap! 975 pages of Drama and history. Amber is a fictional character but the events she lives through and most of the characters surrounding her are factual.
The book reminded me of Gone With The Wind, but unbelievably more epic and Amber is an even worse person than Scarlett!
If you enjoy a multi layered story with lots of intrigue this was a fantastic read, the writing feels incredibly modern and the pages flew by.
"...the crime for which they hoped to have his blood - treason against King and state, the casting of his Majesty's horoscope"
In 1667 George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, was tried seriously for going to a fortune teller and asking for the King (Charles II) horoscope.
What a time to live!
#bookedintime @Cuilin
FA starts at the beginning of the civil war and runs through the reign of Charles II. It was a TIME. Amber is conceived at the beginning, then lives through the civil war, and the Parliamentarian rule as a child, she runs to London with the love of her live when Charles II returns. She lives through The Plague, and I am at the point of the Great Fire.
Interesting I am finding 2 people/causes of the fire. Curious which it is
If I had read this 4 years ago I would have placed Amber's ways of getting through the plague firmly in the past, along with all the doctors and their blood letting. But after the last few years people relying on unicorn horns strung around their necks and Queen Elizabeth minted coins in their mouths don't sound as far fetched as they used to.
I almost liked Amber as she nurses her ❤️ through the plague but she turned quick back on that growth
One thing that I will never understand is when people say they want to time travel to this planet's past. I would do anything to avoid ever being somewhere that medicine is this-
"They did everything they knew to cure her: They bled her until she was white as the sheets she lay on. They cut live pigeons in 2 & tied them to the bare soles of her feet to draw out the poison. They gave her purgatives and....."
It is a miracle anyone survived.
Making a dent in my #BookedInTime #Chunkster
This starts at the beginning of the English Civil War and glosses a bit over the 11 years of Parliamentary rule, which is the time Amber is growing up on her "Uncle's" farm. She runs away with a Duke soldier to London as Charles Ii is coming back into the country to take back over.
I was cautious of this book written in 1944 but it is highly readable, the language feels very modern still
330/972 pages
July's #bookspinbingo list!
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I am reading #chunkster Forever, Amber (974pgs) for #BookedInTime bookclub with @Cuilin so I am not super confident I will get to many of these others. But I do have some on audio from my library which should help!
Excited for July Reading!
It was a busy weekend for our Chunkster Challengers. Another one down by @CovertoCoverGirl ! Great job, CJ!
#ChunksterChallenge2022
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#beginswith #Forever a historical romance published in 1944 about 17th century England, & so much more. I haven‘t read it but it was banned in several states due to 70 references to sexual intercourse , 39 illegitimate pregnancies, multiple abortions. The ban helped it become one of the bestselling books of the 1940s https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/10/when-banning-a-book-backfires/
Three books that I have read which have been banned:
📚 A Farewell to Arms was banned in Fascist Italy
📚 Forever Amber was banned in Boston
📚 Cancer Ward was banned in the Soviet Union
#3books
#7Days7Books - Day 1
We present here 7 books that will remain in our minds, because they touched us so much, changed us. No further comments!
pickDay 1: I absolutely LOVED this book, and the fact that my own name is in the title makes it that much better. 😁❤️ #NameintheTitle #MagnificentMarch
Day 3 - #Over500Pages #GratefulReads
Looking forward to reading this soon. My copy has 972 Pgs.
Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare manages, by using her wits, beauty, and courage, to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England—that of favorite mistress of the Merry Monarch, Charles II.
pickThis novel takes readers on a journey through Restoration England it offers vivid images of fashion, politics, affairs and the public disasters of the plague and the Great Fire of London. Truly this was the first real historical romance written. At 972 pages I thought I would never finish, but once started I was lost in the pages of this novel. A must read by all, the best novel ever written.
so-so"Forever" is right -- I think that's the term you'll find next to "Time remaining:" when you open this monster on an e-reader.
Still, I was happy to find it nowhere near as awful I had expected. The historical color is convincing, especially in some gruesomely effective chapters that take our heroine through the Great Plague. The book's worst sins are its length and Amber's shallow character, which lengthens the long length to longer than long.
1. Forever Amber
2. Chris Claremont‘s run on the Uncanny X-Men got me wanting to read and @amber_ldsmom introduced me to the classics.....thanks love!
3. Night
4. Enders Game series, Hunger Games, Jane Eyre and Rincewind from the Terry Pratchett books!
1. Utah
2. Enders Game
3. Enders Game
4. Old Man Logan
5. Legion
6. All-time: Fugazi; Now: Killers
7. Green
8. Fantasy
9. Navy......in a few weeks Amazon.
10. Cat
@amber_ldsmom recommend Forever Amber to me because she had loved the romanticism of this book. Seeing how I wish to be more romantic, I am in need of some great literature to show me the way. Any recommendations?
#MeetTheLittens
1. Virginia
2. Only one??? That‘s like asking which child is your favorite! But the tagged book is one of them.
3. Harry Potter
4. The ‘Burbs
5. All time: The X-Files; Right now: Legion
6. All time: The Beatles; Right now: Twenty-One Pilots
7. Orange
8. Classics
9. Home
10. One cat, soon to have two ferrets
This old ass book is actually amazing. Once you get into it it's hard to stop reading.
bailedHow could a cover so beautiful contain a story so disappointing? Victorian prostitutes have never been so boring. Amber falls flat as a protagonist and never manages to grow in her dreary, dismal surroundings. Proceed with caution, this historical fiction glutton couldn't do it.
Amber's obsession with Bruce Carlton rivals Scarlett's for Ashley. #taintedlove #gwtwreadalong #junetunz
Picked this back up after having stopped reading it for a while. I am not very far in this book but it is getting interesting now! *Don't mind my schoolwork in the background, lol.
New cover on an old friend. I LOVED this book when I read it years ago.
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