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benihime99 November 26 2024, 20:01:40 UTC
I finished A River Enchanted, which was not a good read.
I'm really angry with Rebecca in general because she always gives us some delicious crumbs, which could be something if she spend some time researching and building lore.
All of her stories read like fanfic, in that she expects the reader to connect the dots and fill in the blanks.
But her story have no depth, almost no plot.

I'm waiting for my copy of Delilah S. Dawson newest book

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nemo_de_la_meer November 27 2024, 00:08:32 UTC
I found her books absolutely bad. If you want good researched / true to time period stuff Juliet Mariller is the way to go.

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benihime99 November 27 2024, 06:04:40 UTC
Yeah but I'm not attracted to her prose at all

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potter_lover456 November 26 2024, 20:05:00 UTC
Is anyone else getting like 2008-2012 from the cover of Heart Shaped Lies?

Not for the Faint of Heart sounds like fun!

I am still on The Mirror & The Light with about 200 pages to go. I would say I'll be done with Thomas Cromwell then but I did pick up Allison Weir's the Six Wives of Henry VIII and Tracy Borman's Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I because I am all about hyper fixating.

I also grabbed We Love the Nightlife from Rachel Koller Croft. I really loved Stone Cold Fox from her, but I don't want to set my expectations too high and disappoint myself.

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allons_y42 November 26 2024, 20:16:33 UTC
I read all of the Cromwell series a few months ago and I totally get it! Looked up the Allison Weir book and I gotta say I object to the goodreads for Six Wives listing Katherine Howard as an empty-headed wanton. Justice for the most maligned of the wives, who was all of 18 when she was murdered! Highly recommend checking out the podcast Not Just The Tudors-- they had a series on the 6 wives that was incredible and included a great exploration of my girl Katherine H

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potter_lover456 November 26 2024, 20:30:16 UTC
I'm really eating my words because I did not get the hype when the 3rd book came out because it seemed so boring. But I am locked in!

I'll let you know if they besmirch Katherine Howard in the actual biography! The podcast sounds nice, idk if I'm ready for another chunky book at the moment.

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allons_y42 November 26 2024, 20:35:18 UTC
Once things started going pear-shaped for old Cromwell I could not put it down! the dissolution of the monasteries stuff was unexpectedly super interesting too-- I didn't know much about how that process actually worked until I read this book

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ellie_andrews November 26 2024, 20:06:20 UTC
picked this up from the library


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yami_no_hoshi November 26 2024, 20:08:31 UTC
I finished A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes over the weekend. Really liked it. I see that today brings another Greek retelling lol, I’ll add that to my list.

I started the Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue, which I bought in Dublin two years ago. This is actually a timely turnaround for me. I bought Northanger Abbey in Bath in 2010 since it’s set there, and I have yet to read it lol. Same goes for the copy of A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn which I bought in 2017 in New York lol. So I’m catching up with the books I buy “on location,” so to speak. It was eerie to read the opening scene with the main character sitting on a tram while people are coughing around her and people feeling uneasy (it’s about the 1918 flu pandemic), while also sitting on a streetcar thinking the same when people cough!

My library hold for Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur came in and since it was in my backpack, I started it on my commute this morning. A “stars” and sapphic double feature for me (with vastly different ( ... )

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ellie_andrews November 26 2024, 20:16:54 UTC
i really liked The Pull of the Stars! i read it during the pandemic AND i was pregnant. which was a little stressful lol. but still a pretty good book.

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yami_no_hoshi November 26 2024, 20:28:08 UTC
Oh no! Doubly relevant subject matter! 😱
I’m enjoying it so far! (Unsettlingness aside)

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allons_y42 November 26 2024, 20:18:08 UTC
I started Pull of the Stars early in the pandemic and had to put it down because it was TOO prescient for me! might give it another try now though because I love the rest of Emma Donohue's work

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naeara November 26 2024, 20:18:30 UTC

I got a bit burned out on the Greek mythology retellings but hmmm I might read Daughters of Bronze. I need someone to read it first and let me know what they think.

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