Karen writes:
For years I’ve been looking for this
book that I read that I loved but I cannot remember the title, the name of
the book nor the author! I’m pretty sure it’s part of a series but I
don’t know for sure. Yesterday, my co-worker and I were talking about books
and I was telling her about this book that I loved and wish I could remember
anything about it and she had read it too, which I was stunned!!Okay, what I remember of the book – which may not be 100% accurate because I read it
YEARS ago but it was about a young blond girls who was touring a crumbled
down castle in Scotland I believe (in this century, she had a cell and/or
ipod, etc, you get the idea) she got separated from her tour group and was
studying a suit of armor and then BAM she was back in the 1200’s (or
somewhere around there) and she was laying in the grass and there was a man
on a horse galloping straight at her.She ends up falling in love w/ that guy, who owned the castle and was I guess the Lord or that particular land.
His castle was falling apart and she was handy with tools and helped him and
his men (she actually took charge of the rebuilding and earned these men’s
respect) rebuild the keep, etc.She found a way to go back to our time but
she was in love and went back to his time for good. When she went back to
him she brought a backpack filled with books, penicillian and chocolate
(among other things). Also, when she was back in his time (originally) she
had met a woman who was from our century who had fallen into a pond and
ended up in their time and I believe there was a guy who disappeared from
back then and wound up in our time which is why I believe there was
definitely a series and I would really love to find out who this author was,
what the title of the book was, etc. It’s been driving me crazy for YEARS
and if you all can help me in any way, I would be greatly appreciative!!
What is it with the time traveling folks bringing key supplies with them when the move permanently into the Days of Yore with Minimal Dental Care? I am now pondering, if I were to move myself for the red hot burnin’ love to a time period with much less in the way of modern anything, what would I bring? Five items of absolute necessity? Tough question.
The More I See You – wasn’t it M&M’s the heroine brought back with her?
I just read A Knight in Shining Armor this week and it definitely wasn’t that book.
actually, he wouldn’t be wierded out because depending on what period you travel too, women shaven/waxed/scraped/plucked leg and arm hair and even pubic hair. except in the renaissance era because then they only plucked their eyebrows (completely) and hairline O.o ew
and what the heck is a leg pit? would that be the backs of your knees??
Depilation of female body hair was certainly practised in many periods, but it was nothing like as universal as it is in certain cultures today. Some Roman women plucked (not shaved) their pubic hair, but by no means all. Documentary evidence on this kind of topic is naturally very patchy indeed, and archaeological evidence is equivocal: there are plenty of Roman tweezers surviving, but they don’t tell one whether they were used for eyebrows, armpits, legs, arms or elsewhere. On the whole, their close association in sets with ear- and nail-cleaners hints more at eyebrows and other facial hair than general body-plucking.
There is also the fact that in most periods of history, women other than those in the most leisured and privileged classes would have been unlikely to have much time and opportunity to indulge in regular full-body depilation.
Sorry about ‘legpit’: it is simply a jokey term for the genital area, on analogy with ‘armpit’.
i do not know what this book is, but i have a list of things to take back in time with me.
First of all, I am a creature of comfort, so I need to go back to a time with electricity—so i really can’t go back any further than the late 1700’s or early 1800’s. I would love to say that I would bring my computer, but i wouldn’t be able to use the internet (no smart bitches trashy books in the days of yore) so what would be the point. I would definitely take my Ipod/charger because I would shrivel up and die without music. I like the idea of taking a paper-making kit and pencils, so i can keep writing. Definitely medicines (any one of us could be doctors!), and i would make sure to be vaccinated against anything that could possibly kill me. I would take some vegetable oil to get passed the digestive problems. Finally, I would try to bring back something like the Britta Filtration System, so I could have nice and clear (not to mention clean) water.
I definitely second the More I see You (or third or fourth as it really should be). At the end, she found out that there was another woman who had traveled back in time as well. And when she came back the final time, she brought back chocolate, a cd walkman (it WAS written in 1999), and solar renewable batteries. But speaking of time travel, does anyone know of a book about a viking warrior that is stuck in Valhalla and is transported to the current time by a sword (almost like a genie’s lamp) that he is connected to? I think the heroine is a writer or a researcher. Hilarity ensues (of course) when he has to get used to things like cars and radios. Oh, yeah, and since she was the one who called him back to the world, he has to do EVERYTHING she says. I really loved this book. Or at least what I can remember of it.
Rebecca, try looking up Sandra Hill she has a bunch of Viking time travel books and she might be close. But if you take away the Viking it sounds a bit like Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Fantasy Lover.
Thanks, Qadesh. I don’t think it’s Sandra Hill. Not her style of writing and I looked through most of the viking book descriptions. Fantasy Lover sounds awesome though!
I found it! Gotta love the limited preview option in Google Books. Johanna Lindsey’s Until Forever (gotta love her too!). The Viking is Thor’s brother and is hanging out in Valhalla but can be summoned by the sword called a Blooddrinker’s Curse, which our heroine just happens to have in her possession because she’s a historian that collects medieval weapons. Her name is Rosaleen (Rose) and his name is Thorn. Hee hee.
And thanks Smart Bitches for bringing back so many great RN memories.
I’ve read that. I’m pretty sure that book has a naked Fabio inside cover with just the sword covering his sword.
Diana Gabaldon: Outlander
What I would take back:-
First Aid kit
Sewing kit
Ray Mear’s survival guide book[s]
Gold/silver/jewellry
Stout, water resistant footwear
[I do like the ‘how to do indoor plumbing’ guide for certain time periods!]
In Diana Gabaldon’s books, the medically trained heroine does get around to making a working penicillin culture eventually.
Chloe-
I don’t know about the sword thing, but the naked Fabio part seems spot on (unfortunately, I can’t find the inside cover pictured online). *Sigh* I’ve always hated the Fabio covers, but they seem to have disgraced most of my favorite books.
This is great, I’ve also read that book and couldn’t remember any of the details. I ended up getting the Outlander series thinking that was it but it’s not (very good books though). I’ll have to try some of the book sugestions here. Thanks