Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
#Cleopatra
review
K.Wielechowski
post image
Pickpick

I found this book about the six women rulers of Egypt very interesting, although at some times it felt a little tilted rather than neutral fact.
It, of course, covered the more well-known women like Nefertiti, Hatshepsut, and Cleopatra, but I really enjoyed learning about the lesser known women rulers: Merneith, Neferusobek, and Tawisret.

TheBookHippie I liked this one. 1w
11 likes1 stack add1 comment
review
Skeeterisme
post image
Pickpick

Love it

review
sdbruening
This post contains spoilers
show me
Panpan

Having read a biography of Cleopatra VII and watched documentaries and movies, this fictional diary was definitely a let-down. Can‘t tell if it‘s disappointing because I‘m an adult or because I know so much about her life. It was mostly being stuck in Rome waiting for a Roman army to come back with her and her father to Alexandria to quell the peasant and sibling rebellions. The ending part with all the facts was more interesting.

review
Deblovestoread
Lily of the Nile | Stephanie Dray
post image
Pickpick

#BookedinTime

I enjoyed this audio book imagining what happened to the children of Marc Antony and Cleopatra after their deaths. I did find my mind wondering a bit as I listened and it‘s the beginning of a trilogy that I‘m not sure I will continue. 3.5 🌟

@Cuilin @dabbe

Cuilin ✅ 🎉 Some audio books are like that. 4mo
dabbe Your score's on the spreadsheet! 🤩 4mo
56 likes1 stack add2 comments
blurb
Deblovestoread
Lily of the Nile | Stephanie Dray
post image

Looking forward to the tagged book about the daughter of Cleopatra and Marc Antony. The first in a trilogy.

#BookedinTime @Cuilin @dabbe

dabbe On the spreadsheet! 🤩 5mo
Cuilin I‘m still trying to decide which one I‘m going to read I have a few options. Yours looks good though. 5mo
AnnCrystal 🤩👍💝. 5mo
45 likes1 stack add3 comments
blurb
LitsyEvents
post image

#BookedInTime #TimeOfThePharaohs
Thanks to @Mollyanna for suggestion.
All are welcome, choose your own novel, review and tag @Cuilin and @dabbe

blurb
Cuilin
post image

#BookedInTime #TimeOfThePharaohs

Thanks to @Mollyanna for suggestion.

All are welcome, choose your own novel, review and tag @Cuilin and @dabbe

rubyslippersreads One of my favorite eras for historical fiction! I‘ll have to figure out what I want to read. 😃 6mo
See All 27 Comments
Karisimo I‘ve had this one on my TBR forever! Maybe now is the time! I just read Maria by this same author. 6mo
Jess861 Oh I'm definitely going to try and find the time to jump in on this one!! Such an interesting topic and Era! 6mo
julieclair Love this choice! 6mo
Deblovestoread Love this time period. Nefertiti was a good read. Need to see what‘s on my shelf. 6mo
Deblovestoread @Cuilin Is there an October prompt? I must have missed it. 6mo
rwmg Are we counting the Ptolemies and especially Cleopatra VII? 332 BCE would be Alexander the Great\'s conquest of Egypt while Cleopatra VII died in 31 BCE. We don\'t know when Cleopatra Selene, Cleopatra\'s daughter of the tagged book, died but most likely the decade before or after 1 BCE 6mo
Cuilin @rwmg Yes, absolutely. I have one book about Alexander and one on Cleopatra not sure which one I will read, but they all count. 6mo
Cuilin @Deblovestoread so sorry, apparently I forgot to post October‘s prompt. 🤦‍♀️ I thought I did that back in May/June when I posted a few few months in a row, my bad. I guess October is a pick your own. 6mo
Cuilin @Jess861 thanks, I like this one too. 6mo
Cuilin @Karisimo yes, looks promising 6mo
Cuilin @rubyslippersreads fabulous, I have a few ideas but haven‘t decided yet. 6mo
Mollyanna Yay! So excited. 😀. I have quite a few to choose from, but I‘ll probably start with 6mo
Cuilin @Mollyanna A murder mystery in ancient Egypt? Sounds fantastic. 6mo
TheBookgeekFrau Cool! The pictured suggestions look really good! 6mo
Cuilin @TheBookgeekFrau Now which one to choose. 🤔 6mo
TheBookgeekFrau @Cuilin 😂😂 Right?! 6mo
julieclair I think a witch trial book will be fun for October, so I will be reading one about the Pendle Witch Trials, 6mo
Cuilin @julieclair sounds fabulous 6mo
Itchyfeetreader I read the Margaret George years ago and loved it. Will it be a reread or something different?! I appreciate the black for October I really want to clear something off my physical pile and am sure there will be options in there ! 6mo
Cuilin @Itchyfeetreader my daughter loved that book too. It‘s been on my TBR for years. 6mo
Karisimo @Cuilin what is the time period for December? 5mo
Cuilin @Karisimo thank you for reminding me. I will post it today and tag you. 🙏 5mo
Karisimo Thanks @Cuilin I was just starting my bookspin list 😊 5mo
38 likes27 comments
blurb
mrsmarch
post image

October #bookspin 🤞🏻

18 likes3 comments
blurb
reading.rainb0w
post image

This book should be titled, When Women "Ruled" the World instead. While I thought this was going to be about female empowerment/feminism... it's giving much more, "she was in power only bc... "xx" reason." Men were still seen as superior. I thought this was going to be about a time when women were seen as equals.. but the author enjoys pointing out the fact women were never equal - this was all coincidence/luck that brought them into their power.

reading.rainb0w I don't want to give a shit review because I'm annoyed over facts - it's not the authors fault, obviously - but I wish these women were seen in the same respective positive light as the men in that era - perhaps it actually Was the way it's been written, or perhaps it was different, yet we can't see it through that lens as a society today based on our limited perspective of reality/truth. 🤔 #currentlyreading #nonfiction 8mo
9 likes1 comment
blurb
thebacklistbook

Just starting in on this one again.