Welcome my Terrific Tome Taster’s to tonight’s Throwback Thursday. Our Gem this evening is a Zultanite. Watch how it changes from one color to another..how it’s facets catch the light, reflecting back on to the world around it. This is a most beautiful stone and can be used in so many way, but it’s color …
Category Archives: Historical Fiction
Mystery Monday
Hello my Fellow Book Dragons and welcome to this week’s Mystery Monday. Our Gem this evening is quite captivating in it’s unassuming beauty, much like English Blue John Fluorite. Many colored, it may seem chaotic with moments of great tension, but hold it for awhile longer and it calms and gives clarity. In this Gem …
Freakish Friday
Welcome to Freakish Friday my Fellow Book Dragons! Our Gem this blustery evening is one never seen here before. Let me get it from this palm wood box and I will show you. It is wrapped in this piece of leopard hide. Here we are. Feel it’s smoothness, worn by 400 years of existence, the …
Freakish Friday
Welcome to Freakish Friday my fiery, fiction feasting Fafnirs. I bring you this evening a dark and smoky Gem, glowing with all the evils of war. Give me a moment whilst I pull on these chain gloves. I will not even allow my claws to touch the very lead-lined ancient ammunition box that holds it. …
Throwback Thursday
Welcome to Throwback Thursday my thrilling Thevetats of Tomes. Tonight our Gem is quite stunning. Topaz in likeness, stunning in its radiance, it’s color, like Autumn leaves at their peak, as liquid gold stopped in some magical spell. It seems perfect doesn’t it? But let us pull it from such bright like and let the …
Mystery Monday
Welcome to Mystery Monday, my fellow Book Dragons. I hope you have had a good start to your week. Tonight’s Gem is blood red, deep and clear, akin to a Garnet. Look how it radiates in the light as I pull back the fold of the grey, itchy, woolen cloth it is wrapped in. It …
Throwback Thursday
Welcome my fellow Book Dragons to this evening’s Throwback Thursday. Tonight’s Gem is quite special. This is an ancient brooch, bedecked in Gems from the time of Henry II, King of England. Husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Father of three Kings of England, including Richard the Lion-Heart. A beautiful, jewel encrusted brooch where each tells …
Throwback Thursday
Welcome, my fellow Book Dragons to Throwback Thursday. Let us start with a special welcome to all the new members of our Tribe, if you have recently joined us, please know you are appreciated and gather round the fire place as I tell you of our Gem this blustery January evening. Our Gem is quite …
Saturday’s Child
Good evening my fellow Book Dragons. This evening’s Gem is akin to a pearl. Beautiful, luminescent, yet brought forth at a great cost. It is Gem Maker Elizabeth St. John’s Written in Their Stars. This great epic is the third in The Lydiard Chronicles and covers the years 1649-1664. I have not read the first …
Throwback Thursday
Welcome to Throwback Thursday my fellow Book Dragons, our last for this year. And we are going far back. The end of the 9th Century, in fact. This Gem is quite beautiful, like a piece of Aquamarine held in the light of a sky just after a storm. It glows a silken, shimmering blue-green. When …
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