Alison Weir, Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey (New York: Ballantine, 2006).

Oh, I confess, I occasionally like fluffy reading (though I do too little of it), and the overly dramatic title and the subject matter got me. I suppose I was 'hoping' for something like Norah Lofts' The Concubine on Anne Boleyn. As an aside, I was most ( Read more... )

Richard E. Kim, Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970).

The professor I TA'd for this past quarter recommended this book to me, saying she thought of designing a course just so she could use this. It was really, really wonderful - reminded me some of And So Flows History, though entirely lacking ( Read more... )

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