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#LiteraryCrew: our next #buddyread title is this nonfiction book by de Courcy - perfect for#NFNovember! Discussion will take place on November 30th.
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#LiteraryCrew : Our next #buddyread title is this nonfiction book by de Courcy—perfect for #NFNovember ! Discussion will take place on November 30th.

All are welcome to join! This is a low key buddy read. I post periodic checkins during the month, along with the discussion questions on the last of the month. Please let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the tag list.

Thanks for the 2025 suggestions! I‘ll get voting ready very soon!

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November‘s #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead is a first: a nonfiction! This is an account of the women who left Britain in search of husbands and adventure in India in the late 19th century.

Read at your own pace. I will post periodic checkins throughout the month. Discussion questions will be posted November 30th. Please let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the tag list!

November‘s #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead is a first: a nonfiction! This is an account of the women who left Britain in search of husbands and adventure in India in the late 19th century.

Read at your own pace. I will post periodic checkins throughout the month. Discussion questions will be posted November 30th. Please let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the tag list!

And don‘t forget to submit title suggestions for next year!

I think I lost the thread a few times; I was hoping for more of an analysis of the events of the French/Indian War, but a lot of this seemed like a retelling of military encounters. Since that didn't interest me as much, I may have missed the other parts, but a large part of the book was just walking through battles.

As a descendant of the Acadians myself, I waited far too long to learn about this pivotal event in history. When I was small, my Cajun family had always told me about how we as a French offshoot came to be in Louisiana, the expulsion from Canada, “le grand dérangement,” but it was so distant in collective memory, it was a sort of legend and was in a tl;dr format. I hadn‘t thought much about it, but I finally decided I‘d like to know the details.

Must read for colonial history.

I feel generally disappointed with American public school history curriculum. I do not remember studying the French and Indian War (aka The Seven Years War in Europe) in any significant way. But this short history shows how the changing alliances and enormous expenses of this conflict formed the foundation for American independence. The pic depicts the amphibious Battle of Quebec.

I started this book several times over the past six years or so. This is truly dense and impressive in terms of all of the information it conveys. I finally stuck it out thanks to a lot of car rides. I learned a great deal that‘s not covered in basic history classes. It gives fair depictions of the founding fathers, flaws and all. It was interesting how the democracy experiment almost crashed and burned or sputtered out on several occasions.