When I first signed up for Blue Archipelago’s July Book Blowout, I challenged myself to read 8 books in July. After reviewing what I read during the month of June, I didn’t feel that 8 would be significantly challenging to me. I up-ed my goal to 10. When July hit, I was excited to get [...]
The Other Boleyn Girl Virtual Book Club Contest
27 Feb By 10 Comments
This contest appears to have been completed. You can’t view the site any longer. Thanks to everyone who participated! _______________________________________ Sony Pictures has sponsored a fun contest surrounding the release of The Other Boleyn Girl. People create and join virtual book clubs. Each person who joins takes a quiz to earn points for their club. [...]
Gregory Discusses the Differences between Fiction and Film
21 Feb By 4 Comments
Here is an interesting article that Philippa Gregory wrote about writing and reading historical fiction and the differences between her novel and the upcoming film rendition of The Other Boleyn Girl. If I gain nothing else from seeing the movie, I really enjoyed reading this article. A big thank you to Butterflylady from HistoricalFiction.org for [...]
A Royal Disaster?
17 Feb By 3 Comments
The Other Boleyn Girl was my introduction to modern historical fiction, Philippa Gregory, and my beloved Tudors. When I heard the news that a film based on TOBG was in the works, I was thrilled. It was a such a powerful read and I was hopeful that it would make a wonderful movie. It didn’t [...]
#52 ~ The Autobiography of Henry VIII
20 Dec By 7 Comments
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret George As 2007 was the year that I fell in love with the Tudors, what better way to close it than by reading this book by Margaret George? It was a great choice. From the beginning where Will Somers and Catherine [...]
Early Christmas Pressies for Literate Housewife
20 Dec By 2 Comments
I have had the most wonderful things happen to me over the past two days – I’ve received two free books in the mail!!! Yesterday there was a package waiting for me from Simon and Schuster. I thought it might be the book that I snagged as part of LibraryThing‘s Early Reviewers group. When I [...]
The Other Boleyn Girl: The Trailer
16 Nov By 1 Comment
I am excited to share that the trailer for The Other Boleyn Girl is now available online. I’ve just watched it and cannot wait for the movie! I recently won a half-vacation day at work for making my United Way donation. It’s a certainty now that I’ll be saving that for the afternoon of Leap [...]
My Tudor Fan Site
11 Nov By 4 Comments
Update: February 17 I’ve updated my link. The site is complete, at least for the time being. Thanks again for everyone’s comments! _____________________________________ I am taking an intermediate level HTML class. The project for this class is to create a web-site of no less than five pages. I don’t know why I didn’t think about [...]
#43 ~ The Virgin’s Lover
5 Nov By 2 Comments
The Virgin’s Lover by Philippa Gregory Your Attention, Please! Until Gregory’s novel about Mary, Queen of Scots (entitled The Other Queen) is published next year, I can now officially say that I have read every book in her Tudor series! YES!!!! I read my first in March and, as of October 24, I read the [...]
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