Friday Fan Question

What is your latest Plaidy purchase?

I just ordered the Last of the Stuarts trilogy: The Three Crowns, Haunted Sisters and The Queen's Favorites. Some of these are going for a lot on different websites. The omnibus of all three in one is very expensive. I happened to find them for $2 each (plus shipping) from Alibris and Amazon. I now only lack 32 books to complete my Plaidy collection!

Friday Fan Question

What is the ugliest Plaidy cover you own or have seen elsewhere?

Without a doubt the ugliest one I have is the Omnibus of St. Thomas's Eve, Royal Road to Fotheringay, The Goldsmith's Wife and Perdita's Prince. It has a photo of a couple, with 1980's hairstyles, clasping hands under a castle window or door, the walls of which are crumbling (so it can't have been the time period they are supposed to be from). The other colors on the book are an ugly beige and red/blue/white band across the middle. The text is black and goes over the photograph so that you cannot see parts of it that are in the dark areas of the photo. I'm honestly thinking about chucking the cover because underneath is a nice red (imitation) leather with gold text. I'll be reading The Goldsmith's Wife from this volume soon!

Friday Fan Question

Scenario:

You're sitting in your favorite reading spot devouring a Plaidy novel, when you see a glowing light seemingly coming from the mirror in the bedroom. You get up to investigate and words appear on the mirror:

"Touch the glass and you will be taken back to in time to live the life of any character from a Jean Plaidy novel, if only for a short time. You can touch the glass on a mirror from that time to get back."

Life has been pretty boring lately, and you decide that it would be fun and adventurous to live in the past for a while. If you decide you don't like it, you can easily return as the mirror said.

Who do you choose?

You gingerly take a step nearer and stretch out your hand toward the glowing light and say, "I want to be..."