You did it! We figured this one out! It is a truth universally acknowledged (by me for certain) that the Bitchery pretty much knows everything, and really, it's true. Scroll down to see the solution for this HaBO - and many thanks!
This HaBO request comes from Nicci, who is searching for a Regency romance that’s lost on her Kindle:
I know I have this book somewhere on my Kindle. It’s there, even now, lost in the digital aether, but I hope you can help me locate it again. It’s a Regency-ish romance I read about ten years ago, but that won’t help in finding the publishing date since I had a brand new Kindle and immediately went on a huge book buying spree. I’m pretty certain this book was part of a series or at least loosely connected to one. The hero wasn’t a member of the family, club, or whatever it was that bound the series together, but he was a peripheral character for a book or two before he got his own story.
Our hero was from a noble family, but I don’t believe he was titled himself. He was also as poor as the proverbial church mouse and desperate to hide that from everyone. He lived in a tiny rented room, and I remember one scene where he was doing his own ironing because he couldn’t afford a valet. He attended party after party to (1) eat crappy party food so at least he wouldn’t starve, and (2) make investment contacts for a financial deal he was putting together, maybe involving canals or maybe something else. He ended up hooking up with the sister of one of the family/club/whatever members, and that’s about all I remember. I hope that’s enough info for someone out there to recognize it.
Gasp, he has to do his own ironing! Scandalous!
I lived in hurricane country, and thought long and hard about what irreplaceable means to me. For books, it came down to just one, not for the book itself, but for the inscription. I think that the ability to find old books in minutes is one of the wonders of the internet. First, of course, I’ll need that comprehensive list…
@shoregirl, I never once interpreted anything you said as a criticism of my choices so please put that idea right out of your mind.
One reason I still have so much non-fiction is that I find I cannot absorb non-fiction when I read it in an e-reader. For one thing, I really resent anyone else’s underlinings. For another, if I am going to learn, I need to hold the book, make my own notes etc.
After that wildfire experience, I tend to be very selective about my non-fiction purchases.
I am trying to do the Religious Literacy e-course from Harvard Div right now, and I found I can’t read the material on my computer, I had to copy, paste, and print it so I could hold it and mark it up in order to absorb it.
Scandalous, Dissolute, No-Good Mr Wright- Tessa Dare.