Nefret's Reading Log...

[Nefret]

I have not finished anything yet. But I was going to start keeping track of what I read this year. And visit the library more often.

So far for January... (currently reading)

1. Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert by Stanley Weintraub
2. Victoria : the young queen by Monica Charlot
3. Victoria's daughters by Jerrold M. Packard

[Nefret]

Going with my needing to read more royal books. This is my latest library haul.

1. Emma, Lady Hamilton by Flora Fraser. (https://catalog.santacruzpl.org/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A0n3vr70.005?servers=1home&index=ti&material_filter=all&language_filter=all&location_filter=all&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=all&query=Emma%2C+Lady+Hamilton+%2F)
2. King James VI of Scotland, I of England by Antonia Fraser. (https://catalog.santacruzpl.org/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A0n3vr70.006?servers=1home&index=ti&material_filter=all&language_filter=all&location_filter=all&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=all&query=King+James+VI+of+Scotland%2C+I+of+England%3B )
3. Love and Louis XIV : the women in the life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser. (https://catalog.santacruzpl.org/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A0n3vr70.006?servers=1home&index=ti&material_filter=all&language_filter=all&location_filter=all&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=all&query=Love+and+Louis+XIV+%3A)

[Susan]

Going with my needing to read more royal books. This is my latest library haul.

1. Emma, Lady Hamilton by Flora Fraser. (https://catalog.santacruzpl.org/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A0n3vr70.005?servers=1home&index=ti&material_filter=all&language_filter=all&location_filter=all&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=all&query=Emma%2C+Lady+Hamilton+%2F)
2. King James VI of Scotland, I of England by Antonia Fraser. (https://catalog.santacruzpl.org/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A0n3vr70.006?servers=1home&index=ti&material_filter=all&language_filter=all&location_filter=all&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=all&query=King+James+VI+of+Scotland%2C+I+of+England%3B )
3. Love and Louis XIV : the women in the life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser. (https://catalog.santacruzpl.org/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A0n3vr70.006?servers=1home&index=ti&material_filter=all&language_filter=all&location_filter=all&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=all&query=Love+and+Louis+XIV+%3A)

Ah, the mother-daughter Fraser collection! I've only read the one about Louis XIV. I didn't know very much about French royals (mostly whatever I learned in World History about Louis XIV and Louis XVI). My trip to Paris this past summer spurred me on to learn more about the French royals.

[Nefret]

Susan- I am trying to read more books by them both. Have a few I own now. :)


First book completed in 2010...

Victoria's daughters by Jerrold M. Packard. It was most interesting.
Learned why they called Queen Victoria 'the Grandmother of Europe'. 40 grandkids? :eek:

[Nefret]

Newest list items...


1. Princesses- The Six Daughters of George III by Flora Fraser
2. Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France by Christine Pevitt Algrant

[Nefret]

French Revolution books...

1. Marie Antoinette- The Journey by Antonia Fraser
2. Marie Antoinette- The Last Queen of France by Evelyne Lever
3. Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel

[Nefret]

Newest library books...

1. The Cradle King: The Life of James VI and I, the First Monarch of a United Great Britain by Alan Stewart

2. The Wars of the Roses: Through the Lives of Five Men and Women of the Fifteenth Century by Desmond Seward

3. England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams

[SonjaMarie]

Nefret: you and I have very similar tastes! I have the book on Emma on my Amazon WL.

SM

[Nefret]

Nefret: you and I have very similar tastes! I have the book on Emma on my Amazon WL.

SM

Yes, I have noticed. I have already read Flora Fraser's book. Which I ended up buying. Just got this one, it looked interesting.

[SonjaMarie]

Yes, I have noticed. I have already read Flora Fraser's book. Which I ended up buying. Just got this one, it looked interesting.

I haven't read a book on her yet. She doesn't seem like a very deep person from what I have read, a bit stupid actually, but an interesting life.

SM

[Nefret]

I haven't read a book on her yet. She doesn't seem like a very deep person from what I have read, a bit stupid actually, but an interesting life.

SM

Let me know what you think. Not sure what made me get the new one from the library. Just curious, perhaps.

[SonjaMarie]

Let me know what you think. Not sure what made me get the new one from the library. Just curious, perhaps.

I don't have a book on her yet. She was covered a little on a book I read about Pompeii, because her husband William Hamilton was interested in Vesuvius and the discoveries from ruins.

SM

[Nefret]

I don't have a book on her yet. She was covered a little on a book I read about Pompeii, because her husband William Hamilton was interested in Vesuvius and the discoveries from ruins.

SM

I am interested in Pompeii. What is this book you read?

This year, I decided to read more biographies. So, I guess that's what is on my list.

[SonjaMarie]

I am interested in Pompeii. What is this book you read?

This year, I decided to read more biographies. So, I guess that's what is on my list.

The books I've read last year about Pompeii are:
"The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found" by Mary Beard $$$
"The Complete Pompeii" by Joanne Berry $$$
"Pompeii: The Living City" by Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence
"Eros In Pompeii: The Secret Rooms of the National Museum of Naples" by Michael Grant, Antonia Mulas (photos), Antonio De Simone and Maria Teresa Merella
"Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery" by Judith Harris $$
"Pompeii: The History, Life and Art of the Buried City" ed. by Marisa Ranieri Panetta (many authors) $$$

If you can get some of them from the library great, otherwise some of them can be expensive to buy (marked with different levels of $). There are more that I'd like to read someday (if I can afford them) on my Amazon WL:
http://amzn.com/w/I7DFCQHBIO9J

SM

[Nefret]

Thanks, SM. That will likely be my next library search.

[Nefret]

February books (currently reading):

A Venetian Affair- A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the Eighteenth Century by Andrea di Robilant
Lucia- A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon by Andrea di Robilant

[Nefret]

Classic reading...

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

[Nefret]

More classics...

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

[boswellbaxter]

Newest library books...

1. The Cradle King: The Life of James VI and I, the First Monarch of a United Great Britain by Alan Stewart

2. The Wars of the Roses: Through the Lives of Five Men and Women of the Fifteenth Century by Desmond Seward

3. England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams


Let me know how The Cradle King and England's Mistress are! I have England's Mistress, I think--it was part of my huge library sale haul from last year.

[Nefret]

Let me know how The Cradle King and England's Mistress are! I have England's Mistress, I think--it was part of my huge library sale haul from last year.

Those have returned to the library long ago. :o Sorry.