Wednesday Reading Meme

[meganbmoore]

What are you currently reading

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford. I'm only a couple chapters in, and so far weatherford has mostly been stressing that Genghis Khan thought women were really great. Which is good and all, but I'm ready to actually get to the women,

Comments

[amelia_petkova]

I'm not familiar with most of the books in this post but I loved reading "The Secret History of the Mongol Queens"! Not to worry, there's more on the women as the book progresses. I think a lot of the focus on Genghis Khan in the beginning has to do with setting up context, particularly as most of the readers probably don't know beans about the Mongol Empire, other than, "Wasn't that started by some dude named Genghis Khan?" The book's material continues long after his death, so there is a lot of attention paid to both his female and male descendants.

[meganbmoore]

Good to know, I figured it could go either way. And yeah, I tend to forget that most US-ians aren't aware of GH much outside of the name and general rep as something of a marauder.