you may have heard about this story of a woman who, disguised as a man, rose to the rank of pope in the 800s. then died or was killed after giving birth during a procession to a church in rome. of course the story was suppressed & joan (or john as she was known) was removed from the list of popes.
a bit of background here; it was very crappy to be a ( Read more... )

in short; if you liked the nanny diaries, you'll like this book ( Read more... )

as of today i've read 23 books, all or part of 16 take place in another country.

i'm on season 8 of stargate, with like 12 days to go before hulu takes them down

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this is the bio of deforest kelly. an interesting read, not only for fans of the original series, but for fans of old hollywood.

( some spoilers for the book )

more than 95% of what i read is fiction, mostly mysteries & sci-fi, the non-fiction included behind the scenes of tv shows & movies as well as biographies. not sure if that includes my textbooks from school. some of those might have been fictitious, or at least somewhat confused. i find that i prefer some mix of fiction in with the fact, historical ( Read more... )

i won't write about all the books i read this year, but felt the need to write about this one.

this is a vampire book, which i never read, but if you took the vampire theme out of it & made it about a search for atlantis or something it would be just as good IMHO. 900 pages was a bit much though even at half that length it would've been fine or even ( Read more... )