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nocowardsoul ([personal profile] nocowardsoul) wrote in [community profile] historicalyafen2012-12-07 07:42 pm
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How this works:

1. Comment with whatever you want to read about - place, period, event, character type, trope.
2. People will reply with book recs for you.
3. Profit!
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South America, Africa

[personal profile] nocowardsoul 2012-12-09 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
What are some books set in South America or Africa?
holyschist: Image of a medieval crocodile from Herodotus, eating a person, with the caption "om nom nom" (Default)

Byzantium, Varangian Guard

[personal profile] holyschist 2012-12-09 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Having just reread Rosemary Sutcliff's Blood Feud, about the establishment of the Varangian Guard, I'm finding myself really wanting fiction about the Varangian Guard or the Byzantine empire in general.
nocowardsoul: young lady in white and gentleman speaking in a hall ([bomb girls])

Crossdressing boys

[personal profile] nocowardsoul 2012-12-10 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Instead of crossdressing girls.
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