Wednesday Reading Meme - catch up
Books of September
Underline: Greatly enjoyed; highly recommend.
Strikethrough: Did not like; do not recommend.
#Meh# It was okay; had some good points but I'm not keeping it.
Non-fiction
Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation by David A. Price
The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir (Ooh, this pissed me off. It was so slipshod and biased and just so ... sloppy I was ready to declare myself pro-Richard just to spite the author. And I hadn't even cared! Fortunately, the following book was a lot more even-handed and methodical and the author had obviously been annoyed by the Weir book as well, providing some specific refutations.
Royal Blood: Richard III And The Mystery Of The Princes by Bertram Fields
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor (So many fierce and awesome ladies!)
#Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History# by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Mary Tudor: England's First Queen by Anna Whitelock
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
#The Queen's Agent : Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I# by John Cooper
The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England by Antonia Fraser (reread)
Fiction - rereads
The Daughter Of Time by Josephine Tey
Georgette Heyer
I would recommend pretty much everything Heyer but I'm underlining some standouts among these.
A Civil Contract
April Lady
Arabella
Black Sheep
Charity Girl
Cotillion
Cousin Kate
False Colours
Frederica
Friday's Child
Lady of Quality
Pistols for Two
Sprig Muslin
Sylvester
The Corinthian
The Foundling
The Grand Sophy
The Nonesuch
The Quiet Gentleman
The Reluctant Widow
The Talisman Ring
The Toll-Gate
The Unknown Ajax
Venetia
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Underline: Greatly enjoyed; highly recommend.
Strikethrough: Did not like; do not recommend.
#Meh# It was okay; had some good points but I'm not keeping it.
Non-fiction
Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation by David A. Price
The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir (Ooh, this pissed me off. It was so slipshod and biased and just so ... sloppy I was ready to declare myself pro-Richard just to spite the author. And I hadn't even cared! Fortunately, the following book was a lot more even-handed and methodical and the author had obviously been annoyed by the Weir book as well, providing some specific refutations.
Royal Blood: Richard III And The Mystery Of The Princes by Bertram Fields
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor (So many fierce and awesome ladies!)
#Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History# by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Mary Tudor: England's First Queen by Anna Whitelock
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
#The Queen's Agent : Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I# by John Cooper
The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England by Antonia Fraser (reread)
Fiction - rereads
The Daughter Of Time by Josephine Tey
Georgette Heyer
I would recommend pretty much everything Heyer but I'm underlining some standouts among these.
A Civil Contract
April Lady
Arabella
Black Sheep
Charity Girl
Cotillion
Cousin Kate
False Colours
Frederica
Friday's Child
Lady of Quality
Pistols for Two
Sprig Muslin
Sylvester
The Corinthian
The Foundling
The Grand Sophy
The Nonesuch
The Quiet Gentleman
The Reluctant Widow
The Talisman Ring
The Toll-Gate
The Unknown Ajax
Venetia
This entry was originally posted at http://venetia-sassy.dreamwidth.org/131728.html. If you can, please comment there.