Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Hilary Mantel’s latest novel first entered my radar through an issue of BookPage, a monthly magazine made available for free from my local library. From the momemt I saw the cover (H8 may not be displayed prominently on the cover, but you can’t slip him by me) and read the [...]
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#222 ~ Her Mother’s Daughter
* This post is brought to you by the nearly 2 feet of snow Mother Nature brought our area over the weekend. Since I couldn’t be out doing last minute Christmas stuff, I spent some time catching up on my reviews. * Her Mother’s Daughter: A Novel of Queen Mary Tudor by Julianne Lee I’m [...]
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A New Take on Historical Fiction
If you know me, you know that I love good historical fiction. Danny surprised me last night with some YouTube pressies that give that genre a whole new meaning. They are short videos directed by Derek Waters about scenes from American history narrated by a very drunk person and acted by some pretty famous people [...]
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Philippa Gregory in Chronological Order
Update 10/14/2010: I originally wrote this post because I had some difficulty putting Philippa Gregory’s Tudor books together in chronological order. At the time, I was new to my love of all things Tudor and didn’t have any real knowledge of the family’s history on my own. By far, this is my most popular post [...]
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#11 ~ The Other Boleyn Girl
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory When I picked up this book to begin reading, I thought I would never finish it. 650+ pages? I have been keeping pace with my book a week goal. I was certain that this would take much longer to read. I was completely wrong. I finished it in [...]
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