Georgette Heyer poll

[gwynnega]

This weekend I finished listening to the Georgette Heyer The Devil's Cub audiobook. I loved it. Since I seem to be accumulating Heyers at an alarming rate, I have a number of choices for which Heyer to bring with me to Writercon. (I will also be bringing some non-Heyer book or other, but that's another quandary.) Which Heyer should I bring?

[Poll #1435887]

Comments

[skogkatt.livejournal.com]

Alas, Heyer is still on my to read list, so I can't recommend a favorite yet.

[gwynnega]

I bet you will love her!

[patchwork-prose.livejournal.com]

I do so love Heyer's Regency romances. (And her mysteries, too, come to think on it!)

[gwynnega]

I haven't read any of her mysteries, but I love her Regencies I've read so far.

[usedtobeljs]

Okay, here's the thing.

Frederica is one of my v.v.v. favourites, because it has a Sensible heroine and a World-Weary Semi-Rake as hero. These are, as you might say, my character-types.

HOWEVER, The Corinthian is sort of ficcish and id-like (cross-gender play, whee!) and so perhaps more suitable to Writercon. ;-)

Hugs!

[gwynnega]

Oh, they both sound awesome!! :-)

::hugs::

[swmbo.livejournal.com]

Hah! The latter is why I picked The Corinthian as my recommendation :)

[sarah-prineas.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I tickied way too many of those tickyboxes!!

I give a vote for Faro's Daughter (awesome heroine) and also, if I'm reading the tickies right, A Convenient Marriage, which I kind-of adore. And you can't go wrong with The Grand Sophy.

Happy travels!

[gwynnega]

Thanks!!

I don't actually have A Convenient Marriage yet, but I thought it would make a good ticky-name. :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/]

The Grand Sophy has a poet named Endymion and a Baluchistan Hound...

[gwynnega]

Excellent!!

[sovay]

Which Georgette Heyer book should gwynnega take on the plane to Writercon?

I would also throw Sylvester, or The Wicked Uncle (1957) into the ring—its heroine is a writer and one of its delights is the sideways match and clash between the expectations of romantic fiction and the ways in which real life works (or does not work) out. Also it has terrific eyebrows.

[gwynnega]

Oh, that sounds awesome!

[sovay]

Oh, that sounds awesome!

I am far from an exhaustive reader of Georgette Heyer, but I love that one.

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

I second sovay's rec of Sylvester, which has a lovely Pride and Prejudice sort of thing going on. I mostly love The Grand Sophy, but it has an unfortunate anti-Semitic bit in the middle which keeps me from recommending it as highly as I'd like to.

[gwynnega]

I remember I'd read that one of Heyer's books had an anti-Semitic bit, but I hadn't realized it was The Grand Sophy...