📚 Several, but all just a sense of peace and joy and adventure of new finds.
📚 📚 Thriftbooks mostly, or used bookstores/library sales.
📚 📚 📚 tagged. The Favored Queen
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Eggs Thanks for joining in 📚🩷🥰 6mo
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📚 Several, but all just a sense of peace and joy and adventure of new finds.
📚 📚 Thriftbooks mostly, or used bookstores/library sales.
📚 📚 📚 tagged. The Favored Queen
#WondrousWednesday
@Eggs
so-soThere was a short author‘s note at the start that explained that the romance was fictional, though much of the rest of the story is true. I actually found Will‘s life more interesting initially when he worked for the merchant, but then my interest waxed and waned through the rest of it. It seemed like Henry went through his last 5 wives very quickly in this book (and I suppose he really did, but this book seemed to speed that up). Ok for me.
pickThe Lady Elizabeth is a fascinating story of a woman far ahead of her time-a orphaned girl haunted by the shadow of the axe, a girl who must use her wits for her very survival, and a future queen whose dramatic path to the throne shapes her future greatness. It has suspense, tragedy and intrigue that you would expect of this time. It has the strong and vivid characters we long to read about. One of Alison Weir's best novels.
so-soMy first read of Weir‘s fiction, and I sadly wasn‘t impressed. I did enjoy knowing more about Lady Jane Grey, but I found the writing just too modern in many places. Perhaps her later novels are better! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Late gifts from a dear friend. A Green Gate mug and the tagged eBook.
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pickIch bin Anne of Cleves ?
Nice one seating biography about Anne of Cleves.
Informative and enjoyable although the author liked to use "in spite of"
AMONG the relics of Henry VIII‘s daughter Mary is a book of prayers where the page devoted to intercessions for women with child is said to be stained with tears. In the later twentieth century the problem of childlessness attracts considerable attention in the Western world, but no pressure on the would-be mother today can match the peculiar strain on a sixteenth-century queen.
Eric Ives calls Anne Boleyn “the most controversial woman ever to have been queen consort of England,“ and I'm really curious about whether he stands by that. Yes, Anne Boleyn was beheaded, but was she called a Rottweiler on the front page of the Sun?
