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I just read The King’s Mistress by Emma Campion. The book jacket claims that she is the world’s foremost scholar on Alice Perrers, the mistress of Edward III mentioned in the title. I’m not quite sure how many scholars of Alice Perrer there are, that she can make the claim. Here’s a review that was posted for . . . → Read More: Never Mind – bad historical fiction So it seems that a mystery that has intrigued me since I was a child will remain unsolved. As I’ve mentioned from time to time, I have always loved history. I don’t know when that love started, but I do know that by the time I was 11, it was well developed. When I was a . . . → Read More: The Mystery of the Swordsman Just finished FDR’s Shadow: Louis Howe, The Force That Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. People enjoy reading about Franklin and Eleanor not only because of their important impact on America, but because of the sometimes mysterious and confusing nature of their relationships with . . . → Read More: FDR’s Shadow I’m re-reading Tom Sawyer right now, and spotted this wonderful description of a health fanatic. Seems very contemporary. His aunt was concerned. She began to try all manner of remedies on him. She was one of those people who are infatuated with patent medicines and all new-fangled methods of producing health or mending it. She was an . . . → Read More: Mark Twain on Medical Fads Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. 1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane . . . → Read More: Ok, 100 books meme I’ve been a big, no a huge John Varley fan, since I first discovered him in the early 80’s. I first read the short story collection Persistence of Vision, and fell in love with his beautiful writing, and his focus on how technology changes societies. But what always made the stories work was societal change was . . . → Read More: Latest Varley When you read a lot of biographies for a single time period, you often find yourself search for a nugget of new information or insight in a sea of familiar stories. Lovely book title, no? |
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