The New York Times published their review of The Other Boleyn Girl, the movie based on Philippa Gregory’s historical fiction novel of the same name. I very much enjoyed the book, despite a few historical inaccuracies - for instance, Mary wasn’t just the sweet girl, caught up in her family’s scheming as in the book, [...]
I am very excited, because tonight I am going to a meeting of my book club. It is perhaps one of the most fun book clubs around. Instead of being purely a book club, it is a book and wine club. A friend of mine and her roommate decided to start this one year ago. [...]
I found out today that there is a new Jean Plaidy reissue coming out called “To Hold the Crown: The Story of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York”. In other words, the beginning of the Royal House of Tudor!
I’m wondering, though, if Three Rivers Press is renaming some of the books as they come [...]
Inspired by another LibraryThing user, I have added another tool to this blog to help me be a more well-balanced reader. On my “Reading Around the World” page I have one of those fun little maps of the world where you can show people all of the interesting places you have been. Instead of showing [...]
I received “Holding Her Head High: 12 Single Mothers Who Championed Their Children and Changed History” by Janine Turner as an early reviewer copy from LibraryThing at the end of last week. I was in the middle of Jean Plaidy’s “Queen of this Realm” about Elizabeth I at the time, so I just started [...]
I just found this on Philippa Gregory’s website, research done by a descendant of Mary Boleyn, through her daughter Catherine Knollys (née Carey), as to whether or not Catherine and Henry Carey were in fact the illegitimate children of Henry VIII, resulting from his affair with Mary.
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For the past two years or so about 60% of what I have been reading has been historical fiction (the other 40% has been made up of best-seller list-type fiction, historical non-fiction, and issue-based non-fiction, such as the Omnivore’s Dilemma, and some of my old favorites). It all started with a “hey, why not” [...]
I am completely in love with the banner I made for this blog. Completely. I have to thank LibraryThing for the ability to do this with relative ease. They were nice enough to put all my book covers together on a single page where I could easily save some of them [...]
This is going to be my new journal of my reading life. This journal is prompted by my LibraryThing membership, and the fun book journals I have seen from other Library Thing Members. I plan to share what I’m reading, as well as my thoughts and feelings on those books here. I [...]
