SonjaMarie's Books Read In 2012

[SonjaMarie]

*Means I own or owned the book at time of read. (K) means Kindle edition (pages of which may be longer or shorter then physical copy)

Historical Fiction:
"The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb" by Melanie Benjamin (436pgs, 2012) (7/23)
"The Greatest Knight: The Unsung Story of the Queen's Champion" Book I by Elizabeth Chadwick (539pgs, 2005) (3/8)
"The Scarlet Lion" Book 2 by Elizabeth Chadwick (556pgs, 2010) (5/17)
"To Defy A King" Book 3 by Elizabeth Chadwick (484pgs, 2011) (7/29)* (K)
"Remarkable Creatures" by Tracy Chevalier (344pgs, 2009) (4/21)*
"The Purple Shroud: A Novel of Empress Theodora" by Stella Duffy (394pgs, 2012) (10/22)
"I, Jane: In the Court of Henry VIII" by Diane Haeger (389pgs, 2012) (10/9)
"Her Highness, the Traitor" by Susan Higginbotham (319pgs, 2012) (6/24)*
"Four Sisters, All Queens" by Sherry Jones (450pgs, 2012) (12/27)*
"The Courtesan's Lover" by Gabrielle Kimm (515pgs, 2012) (6/12)
"His Last Duchess" by Gabrielle Kimm (390pgs, 2011) (1/24)
"The Sister Queens" by Sophie Perinot (507pgs, 2012) (4/5)
"The Wild Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Defiant Daughter" by Mary Hart Perry (420pgs, 2012) (8/29)
Total: 13 - Pages: 5743 - 441pgs aver

Historical Fiction Mysteries:
"For the King" by Catherine Delors (336pgs, 2011) (3/6)
"Mistress of Mourning" by Karen Harper (377pgs, 2012) (10/20)*
"The Flower Reader" by Elizabeth Loupas (419pgs, 2012) (5/5)
Total: 3 - Pages: 1132 - 377pgs aver.

Mysteries:
"Murder on the Oceanic: A George Porter Dillman & Genevieve Masefield Mystery #7" by Conrad Allen (281pgs, 2006) (6/25)*
"If Walls Could Talk: A Haunted Renovation Mystery #1" by Juliet Blackwell (316pgs, 2010) (10/14)
"Dead Bolt: A Haunted Renovation Mystery #2" by Juliet Blackwell (278pgs, 2011) (11/26)* (K)
"Murder on the House: A Haunted Renovation Mystery #3" by Juliet Blackwell (275pgs, 2012) (12/22)* (K)
"Dead Secret: Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation #3" by Beverly Connor (389pgs, 2005) (1/24)*
"Dead Past: Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation #4" by Beverly Connor (381pgs, 2007) (2/15)*
"Dead Hunt: Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation #5" by Beverly Connor (372pgs, 2008) (3/20)*
"Scattered Graves: Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation #6" by Beverly Connor (351pgs, 2009) (4/23)*
"Dust to Dust: Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation #7" by Beverly Connor (375pgs, 2009) (9/3)* (K)
"The Night Killer: Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation #8" by Beverly Connor (342pgs, 2010) (9/27)* (K)
"One Grave Less: Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation #9" by Beverly Connor (391pgs, 2010) (10/26)* (K)
"Plunder: A Faye Longchamp Mystery #7" by Mary Anna Evans (296pgs, 2012) (3/22)
"Haunted Ground: Nora Gavin/Cormac Maguire Mystery #1" by Erin Hart (475pgs, 2004) (10/10)
"Lake of Sorrows: Nora Gavin/Cormac Maguire Mystery #2" by Erin Hart (491pgs, 2004) (12/28)*
"31 Bond Street" by Ellen Horan (350pgs, 2011) (2/3)
"Celebrity In Death" by J.D. Robb (390pgs, 2012) (3/3)*
"Delusion In Death" by J.D. Robb (400pgs, 2012) (9/20)* (K)
"Killer on a Hot Tin Roof: Literary Tour Mystery #3" by Livia J. Washburn (250pgs, 2010) (6/18)
Total: 18 - Pages: 6403pgs - 355pgs aver

Miscellaneous Fiction:
"Emma" by Jane Austen (462pgs, 1815) (9/17)* (K)
"Ghost Story: Dresden Files #13" by Jim Butcher (477pgs, 2011) (9/15)*
"Cold Days: Dresden Files #14" by Jim Butcher (600pgs, 2012) (12/27)* (K)
"The Emerald Storm: Ethan Gage Book #5" by William Dietrich (502pgs, 2012) (5/26)* (K)
"Incubus: Fairwick Chronicles #1" by Carol Goodman (466pgs, 2011) (6/5)*
"Water Witch: Fairwick Chronicles #2" by Carol Goodman (339, 2012) (10/26)*
"Deja Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom #4" by Julie Kenner (326pgs, 2008) (5/5)
"The Betsy-Tacy Treasury: Betsy-Tacy, Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill and Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown" by Maud Hart Lovelace
(722pgs, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 2011ed) (2/27)
"The Witching Hour: The Mayfair Witches #1" by Anne Rice (1039pgs, 1990) (9/22)*
"Lasher: The Mayfair Witches #2" by Anne Rice (629pgs, 1993) (10/30)*
"Taltos: The Mayfair Witches #3" by Anne Rice (557pgs, 1994) (12/28)*
"The Tale of Halcyon Crane" by Wendy Webb (326pgs, 2010) (12/12)
Total: 12 - Pages: 6445 - 537pgs aver.

Pride & Prejudice Sequels, Darcy POV's & Mysteries
"The Deception at Lyme (Or, The Peril of Persuasion): A Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery #6" by Carrie Bebris (295pgs, 2011) (4/8)*
Total: 1 - Pages: 295

Nonfiction - Royalty or Connected - Tudors:
"Henry VII (Yale English Monarchs)" by S.B. Chrimes (365pgs, 1972) (11/27)*
"Elizabeth I in Film and Television: A Study of the Major Portrayals" by Bethany Latham (677pgs, 2011) (11/5)* (K)
"Henry VIII and His Afterlives - Literature, Politics, and Art" ed by Mark Rankin, Christopher Highley, and John N. King (266pgs, 2009) (9/5)*
"Blood Will Tell: A Medical Explanation of the Tyranny of Henry VIII" by Kyra Cornelius Kramer (287pgs, 2012) (12/7)* (K)
"The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown" by Claire Ridgway (249pgs, 2012) (8/14)* (K)
"Henry VIII (Yale English Monarchs)" by J.J. Scarisbrick (547pgs, 1970) (12/29)*
"Death and the Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I and the Dark Scandal That Rocked the Throne" by Chris Skidmore (389pgs, 2010) (2/28)*
"Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings" by Alison Weir (314pgs, 2011) (6/5)*
Total: 8 - Pages: 3094 - 386pgs aver.

Nonfiction - Royalty or Connected - Great Britain:
"Henry V (Yale English Monarchs)" by Christopher Allmand (458pgs, 1992) (7/7)*
"Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III" by Flora Fraser (427pgs, 2006) (2/2)*
"Assassination: The Royal Family's 1000 Year Curse - The Murder or Attempted Murder of the Every King or Queen" by David Maislish (496pgs, 2012) (12/18)* (K)
"The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King" by Ian Mortimer (405pgs, 2007) (5/21)*
"Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayham, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy" by Paul Thomas Murphy (551pgs, 2012) (12/20)* (K)
"Edward IV (Yale English Monarchs)" by Charles Derek Ross (467pgs, 1974) (9/30)*
"Richard III (Yale English Monarchs)" by Charles Derek Ross (301pgs, 1981) (10/27)*
"Richard II (Yale English Monarchs)" by Nigel Saul (492pgs, 1997) (4/4)*
"The Court of St. James's" by E.S. Turner (363pgs, 1959) (2/3)*
"Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Unconventional Daughter" by Jehanne Wake (414pgs, 1998orig, 2012ed) (10/3)* (K)
"Henry VI (Yale English Monarchs)" by Bertram Wolffe (398pgs, 1983) (8/25)*
Total: 11 - Pages: 4772pgs - 433pgs aver

Nonfiction - Royalty or Connected:
"Theodora: Empress of Byzantium" by Paolo Cesaretti (345pgs, 2004) (12/16)*
"The Great Survivors: How Monarchy Made It Into the Twenty-First Century" by Peter Conradi (413pgs, 2012) (8/21)* (K)
"Absolute Power: The Real Lives of Europe's Most Infamous Rulers" by Chad Denton (639pgs, 2006) (8/9)* (K)
"From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women 1847 - 1928" by Julia P. Gelardi (423pgs, 2011) (7/8)*
"The Mistresses: Domestic Scandals of 19th Century Monarchs" by Betty Kelen (335pgs, 1966orig, 1993ed) (9/18)*
"Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman" by Robert K. Massie (580pgs, 2011) (1/31)*
"Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires" by Justin C. Vovk (585pgs, 2012) (12/4)* (K)
Total: 7 - Pages: 3320 - 474pgs aver.

Nonfiction - Great Britain:
"Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages That Made the Countryside" by Clive Aslet (678pgs, 2010) (11/24)*
"The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century" by John Brewer (698pgs, 1997) (4/20)*
"Victorian Things" by Asa Briggs (415pgs, 1988) (7/31)*
"Britons: Forging the Nation 1707 - 1837" by Linda Colley (384pgs, 1992) (6/17)*
"The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera" by Sandra Hempel (295pgs, 2007) (6/18)*
"Pleasures & Pastimes of Victorian Britain" by Pamela Horn (454pgs, 1999orig, 2012kindle) (12/30)* (K)
"Chronicles of Old London: Exploring England's Historical Capital" by Kevin Jackson (377pgs, 2012) (9/4)* (K)
"Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450 - 1500" by Henrietta Leyser (323pgs, 1996) (5/14)*
"Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and The New Eroticism" by Deborah Lutz (281pgs, 2011) (11/14)*
"The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornagraphy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England" by Steven Marcus (286pgs, 1966) (12/19)*
"The Making of Victorian Sexuality" by Michael Mason (306pgs, 1994) (10/18)*
"That Noble Cabinet: A History of the British Museum" by Edward Miller (369pgs, 1974) (1/29)*
"Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servent" by Jeremy Musson (317pgs, 2010) (6/30)*
"Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England" by Linda Levy Peck (359pgs, 2005) (10/13)*
"Dr. Johnson's London" by Liza Picard (337pgs, 2001) (10/1)*
"Seven Ages of Britain" by Justin Pollard (294pgs, 2005) (2/22)*
"English Society in the Eighteenth Century" by Roy Porter (386pgs, 1983) (3/23)*
"Road to Divorce: England 1530 - 1987" by Lawrence Stone (477pgs, 1990) (5/29)*
"Uncertain Unions & Broken Lives: Intimate & Revealing Accounts of Marriage & Divorce in England" by Lawrence Stone (612pgs, 1995) (8/9)*
"The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830 - 1900" by F.M.L. Thompson (349pgs, 1988) (5/11)*
"The Stories Behind London's Streets Pt #1" by Peter Thurgood (357pgs, 2011) (10/6)* (K)
"City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London" by Judith R. Walkowitz (259pgs, 1992) (6/4)*
"The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work, & Play" by James C. Whorton (370pgs, 2011) (2/19)*
"Their Noble Lordships: How to Tell a Duke From an Earl...And Other Mysteries Solved" by Simon Winchester (274pgs, 1984orig, 2012ed) (7/30)* (K)
"If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home" by Lucy Worsley (535pgs, 2012) (5/15)* (K)
"Magpies, Squirrels & Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World" by Jacqueline Yallop (526pgs, 2011) (6/3)* (K)
Total: 26 - Pages: 10318pgs - 396pgs aver

Nonfiction - French History:
"Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910" by Jeffrey H. Jackson (234pgs, 2010) (1/19)
"Savoring the Past: The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789" by Barbara K. Wheaton (240pgs, 1983) (5/22)*
"How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance" by Marilyn Yalom (370pgs, 2012) (12/19)
Total: 3 - Pages: 844 - 281pgs aver.

Nonfiction - History:
"The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean" by David Abulafia (695pgs, 2011) (8/17)*
"Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire" by Simon Baker (353pgs, 2007) (7/26)* (K)
"The World Encyclopedia of Archaeology" - Chief Consultant - Dr. Aedeen Cremin (372pgs, 2007) (1/25)*
"Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans" by Brian Fagan (272pgs, 2010) (7/1)*
"Near A Thousand Tables: A History of Food" by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (228pgs, 2004) (10/13)*
"The Not-So-Nude Ride of Lady Godiva & Other Morsels of Misinformation From the History Books" by David Haviland (316pgs, 2012) (7/4)
"Archaeology: The Science of Once and Future Things" by Brian Hayden (469pgs, 1993) (5/22)*
"Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire" by Judith Herrin (392pgs, 2008) (7/23)*
"A Voyage Long & Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, & Other Adventures in Early America" by Tony Horwitz (391pgs, 2008) (3/31)*
"The Encyclopedia of Ancient History" by Charlotte Hurdman, Richard Tames, Philip Steele, Fiona MacDonald (498pgs, 2011) (10/13)*
"Ancient Inventions" by Peter James & Nick Thorpe (631pgs, 1994) (2/3)*
"Feast: Why Humans Share Food" by Martin Jones (304pgs, 2007) (3/23)*
"Bizarre History: Strange Happenings, Stupid Misconceptions, Distorted Facts & Uncommon Facts" by Joe Rhatigan (143pgs, 2011) (1/29)
"Stones, Bones, and Ancient Cities" by Lawrence H. Robbins, Ph.D (249pgs, 1990) (9/8)*
"The Mental Floss History of the United States" by Eric Sass w/ Will Pearson & Mangesh Hattikudur (412pgs, 2011) (4/26)
"Food In History" By Reay Tannahill (392pgs, 1973) (1/23)*
Total: 16 - Pages: 6117 - 382pgs aver

Nonfiction - Pompeii/Herculaneum:
"The World of Pompeii" ed by John J. Dobbins and Pedar W. Foss (657pgs, 2007) (7/7)*
Total: 1 - Pages: 657

Nonfiction - Biographies/Autobiographies:
"Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey - The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle" by Lady Fiona Carnarvon, the Countess of Carnarvon (331pgs, 2011) (6/22)
"Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin, and John Everett Millais" by Suzanne Fagence Cooper (258pgs, 2010) (7/27)
"Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef" by Ruth Cowen (342pgs, 2007) (11/24)*
"Star of the Morning: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope" by Kirsten Ellis (416pgs, 2008) (8/27)*
"The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World" by Shelley Emling (227pgs, 2009) (9/20)
"The Kings' Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin" by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith (245pgs, 2012) (7/4)~
"Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor" by Rosina Harrison (358pgs, 1975orig., 2011ed) (2/28)
"Fanny Burney" by Claire Harman (390pgs, 2000) (6/14)*
"Mistress to An Age: A Life of Madame de Staël" by J. Christopher Herold (492pgs, 1958) (5/15)*
"The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frakenstein" by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (331pgs, 2007) (8/14)
"Monsieur d'Eon Is A Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade" by Gary Kates (320pgs, 1995) (3/20)*
"The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy'sMost Courageous & Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici" by Elizabeth Lev (292pgs, 2011) (11/16)
"Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill" by Ralph G. Martin (622pgs, 2007) (8/19)
"The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason" by Iain McCalman (246pgs, 2003) (7/27)*
"Wait for Me! Memoirs" by Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire (360pgs, 2010) (11/29)
"Selected Letters" by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, ed. Isobel Grundy (526pgs, 1997) (4/20)*
"Jane Austen for Dummies" by Joan Klingel Ray, PhD (340pgs, 2006) (8/21)*
"Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages" by Phyllis Rose (275pgs, 1984) (11/14)
"Empress of Pleasure: The Life and Adventures of Teresa Cornelys" by Judith Summers (330pgs, 2004) (1/7)*
"Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved" by Judith Summers (359pgs, 2006) (11/18)*
"Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady" by Kate Summerscale (239pgs, 2012) (7/2)* (K)
"The Secret Life of Aphra Behn" by Janet Todd (467pgs, 1996) (10/21)*
"Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self" by Claire Tomalin (416pgs, 2002) (11/21)*
"Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici" by Miles J. Unger (468pgs, 2009) (8/16)
"Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt" by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II (456pgs, 1989) (6/6)*
"Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters At Home and Abroad" by Jehanne Wake (363pgs, 2010) (4/23)
"England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton" by Kate Williams (395pgs, 2006) (2/25)*
"The Astors 1763 - 1992: Landscape With Millionaires" by Derek Wilson (437pgs, 1993) (8/20)*
Total: 28 - Pages: 10301 - 367pgs aver

Nonfiction - History - Papal/Church Related/Religion:
"The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican" by Benjamin Blech & Roy Doliner (333pgs, 2008) (5/13)*
"The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation" by Jon M. Sweeney (252pgs, 2012) (4/23)
Total: 2 - Pages: 585 - 292pgs aver.

Nonfiction - Miscellaneous:
"Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman" by Elizabeth Abbott (531pgs, 2003orig, 2010ed) (5/30)* (K)
"Sugar: A Bittersweet History" by Elizabeth Abbott (408pgs, 2010) (11/24)
"An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain" by Diane Ackerman (261pgs, 2005) (8/21)*
"The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities" by Nathan Belofsky (222pgs, 2010) (1/27)
"The Pig-Faced Lady of Manchester Square & Other Medical Marvels" by Jan Bondeson (283pgs, 2004) (10/16)*
"At Home: A Short History of Private Life" by Bill Bryson (452pgs, 2010) (6/23)*
"Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code" ed by Dan Burstein (381pgs, 2004) (11/17)*
"Secrets of the Lost Symbol" ed by. Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer (409pgs, 2010) (9/19)*
"Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between The World's Greatest Chocolate Makers" by Deborah Cadbury (344pgs, 2011) (11/29)
"At Day's Close: Night in Times Past" by A. Roger Ekirch (357pgs, 2005) (6/27)* (K)
"Concierge Confidential: The Secrets of Serving Champagne Bitches & Caviar Queens" by Michael Fazio w/Michael Malice (270pgs, 2011) (3/27)
"Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition" by Walter Gratzer (262pgs, 2006) (11/26)*
"Spinning Straw Into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations In A Woman's Life" by Joan Gould (355pgs, 2005) (4/16)*
"Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights" of Jessica Kerwin Jenkins (266pgs, 2010) (10/30)*
"Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert" by Michael Krondl (370pgs, 2011) (12/27)* (K)
"Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky (450pgs, 2002) (11/7)*
"The Children's Blizzard" by David Laskin (273pgs, 2005) (5/9)*
"The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times" by Adrienne Mayor (294pgs, 2001orig, 2011ed) (7/4)*
"The Dragon Seekers: How An Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs & Paved the Way for Darwin" by Christopher McGowan
(221pgs, 2001) (3/20)*
"Time Traveller: In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals From Montana to Mongolia" by Michael Novacek (323pgs, 2002) (6/15)*
"Tawdry Knickers&Other Unfortunate Ways to be Remembered: A Saucy&Spirited History of Ninety Notorious Namesakes" by Alex Novak (223pgs, 2010) (4/1)
"Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game & How It Got That Way" by Philip E. Orbanes (281pgs, 2006) (9/9)*
"A History of Courting" by E.S. Turner (242pgs, 1954) (3/12)*
"The Astonishing History of the Medical Profession (aka Call the Doctor)" by E.S. Turner (247pgs, 1961) (4/19)*
"A Crack In the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906" by Simon Winchester (426pgs, 2006) (9/13)
"Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories" by Simon Winchester (461pgs, 2010) (1/5)
Total: 26 - Pages: 8622 - 331pgs aver

Nonfiction - Books on Cemeteries, Death, etc
"Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear" by Jan Bondeson (276pgs, 2002) (7/20)*
"Permanent New Yorkers: A Biographical Guide to the Cemeteries of New York" by Judi Culbertson & Tom Randall (401pgs, 1987) (2/12)*
"Chasing Graveyard Ghosts: Investigations of Haunted and Hallowed Ground" by Melba Goodwyn (289pgs, 2011) (8/19)*
"Post Mortem: Solving History's Great Medical Mysteries" by Philip A. Mackowiak, MD (343pgs, 2007) (11/3)*
"Cemetery Walk: A Journey Into the Art, History and Society of the Cemetery and Beyond" by Minda Powers-Douglas (401pgs, 2005) (6/3)* (K)
Total: 5 - Pages: 1710 - 342pgs aver.

Nonfiction - Real Life Murders/Murder Mysteries/Crimes:
"Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists" by Anthony M. Amore & Tom Mashberg (227pgs, 2011) (11/19)
"The Last Days of Cleveland and More True Tales of Crime and Disaster From Cleveland's Past" by John Stark Bellamy II (246pgs, 2010) (6/18)
"Mr. Brigg's Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder" by Kate Colquhoun (304pgs, 2011) (9/2)*
"The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized A City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars" by Paul Collins (273pgs, 2011) (7/8)
"Executioner: The Chronicles of James Berry, Victorian Hangman" by Stewart P. Evans (358pgs, 2004) (8/25)*
"The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled In Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime" by Judith Flanders (484pgs, 2011) (1/19)*
"The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770 - 1868" by V.A.C. Gatrell (627pgs, 1996) (5/12)*
"Infamous Murders and Mysteries - Cold Case Files and Who-Done-Its" by Dr. Robert J. Girod, Sr (489pgs, 2009) (12/10)* (K)
"The Complete Murders of the Black Museum 1835-1985" by Gordon Honeycombe (381pgs, 1992) (11/30)*
"Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris" by David King (351pgs, 2011) (9/7)
"The Axman Came From Hell and Other Southern True Crime Stories" by Keven McQueen (214pgs, 2011) (6/15)
"The First Detective: The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq, Criminal, Spy, and Private Eye" by James Morton (251pgs, 2004) (10/12)
"The Good Old Days: Crime, Murder and Mayhem in Victorian London" by Gilda O'Neill (306pgs, 2006) (4/30)*
"Murder, New England: A Historical Collection of Killer True-Crime Tales" by M. William Phelps (199pgs, 2012) (9/17)
"The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science" by Douglas Starr (259pgs, 2010) (5/24)
Total: 15 - Pages: 4969 - 331pgs aver

Nonfiction - Jack the Ripper
"The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion" by Stewart P. Evans & Keith Skinner (767pgs, 2000) (1/26)*
Total: 1 - Pages: 767

Nonfiction - Books on Ships, Shipwrecks & Ghost Ships:
"Down With the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster" by Steven Biel (251pgs, 1996orig, 2012ed) (5/21)
"Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First Class Passengers and Their World" by Hugh Brewster (373pgs, 2012) (8/15)* (K)
"Treasure Hunt: Shipwreck, Diving, and the Quest for Treasure in an Age of Heroes" by Peter Earle (389pgs, 2011) (7/5)* (K)
"Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of "Shadow Divers" John Chatterton & Richie Kohler" by Brad Matsen (308pgs, 2008) (7/22)*
"Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the Wreck of the Andrea Doria" by Joe Haberstroh (268pgs, 2004) (9/5)*
"The Only Way to Cross" by John Maxtone-Graham (430pgs, 1972orig, 1978ed) (1/8)*
Total: 6 - Pages: 2019 - 336pgs aver

Acting/Hollywood:
"Anything Goes" by John Barrowman with Carole E. Barrowman (239pgs, 2009)* (11/27)* (K)
"Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee" by Noralee Frankel (263pgs, 2010) (3/12)
"Bob Hope: A Tribute" by Raymond Strait (483pgs, 2003) (2/20)*
"My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir" by Dick Van Dyke (293pgs, 2011) (9/17)
"501 Movie Stars" General Editor - Steven Jay Schneider (628pgs, 2007) (10/20)*
"In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran" by John Taylor w/Tom Sykes (416pgs, 2012) (10/29)* (K)
"If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't" by Betty White (261pgs, 2011) (7/26)
Total: 7 - Pages: 2583 - 369pgs aver

Supernatural/Paranormal:
"Haunted Britain & Ireland: Over 100 of the Scariest Places to Visit in the UK & Ireland" by Derek Acorah (290pgs, 2009) (12/28)* (K)
"Ghosthunting Florida" by Dave Lapham (210pgs, 2010) (2/29)
"Ghosts, Apparitions and Poltergeists: An Exploration of the Supernatural Through History" by Brian Righi (200pgs, 2008) (9/11)*
"Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife" by Mary Roach (295pgs, 2005) (6/7)*
Total: 4 - Pages: 995 - 248pgs aver.

Grand Total: 212 - Pages: 81161 - 382pgs aver
(56 BF, 155 Own (37 Kindle), 1 Loan)

[SonjaMarie]

Despite all the sh*t going on, I'm still reading.

January 2012 14
"Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories" by Simon Winchester (461pgs, 2010) (1/5)
"Empress of Pleasure: The Life and Adventures of Teresa Cornelys" by Judith Summers (330pgs, 2004) (1/7)*
"The Only Way to Cross" by John Maxtone-Graham (430pgs, 1972orig, 1978ed) (1/8)*
"The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled In Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime" by Judith Flanders (484pgs, 2011) (1/19)*
"Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910" by Jeffrey H. Jackson (234pgs, 2010) (1/19)
"Food In History" By Reay Tannahill (392pgs, 1973) (1/23)*
"Dead Secret: Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation #3" by Beverly Connor (389pgs, 2005) (1/24)*
"His Last Duchess" by Gabrielle Kimm (390pgs, 2011) (1/24)
"The World Encyclopedia of Archaeology" - Chief Consultant - Dr. Aedeen Cremin (372pgs, 2007) (1/25)*
"The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion" by Stewart P. Evans & Keith Skinner (767pgs, 2000) (1/26)*
"The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities" by Nathan Belofsky (222pgs, 2010) (1/27)
"That Noble Cabinet: A History of the British Museum" by Edward Miller (369pgs, 1974) (1/29)*
"Bizarre History: Strange Happenings, Stupid Misconceptions, Distorted Facts & Uncommon Facts" by Joe Rhatigan (143pgs, 2011) (1/29)
"Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman" by Robert K. Massie (580pgs, 2011) (1/31)*
Pages: 5563 - 397pgs aver (4 BF, 10 Own)

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[SonjaMarie]

February 2012 14
"Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III" by Flora Fraser (427pgs, 2006) (2/2)*
"Ancient Inventions" by Peter James & Nick Thorpe (631pgs, 1994) (2/3)*
"31 Bond Street" by Ellen Horan (350pgs, 2011) (2/3)
"The Court of St. James's" by E.S. Turner (363pgs, 1959) (2/3)*
"Permanent New Yorkers: A Biographical Guide to the Cemeteries of New York" by Judi Culbertson & Tom Randall (401pgs, 1987) (2/12)*
"Dead Past: Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation #4" by Beverly Connor (381pgs, 2007) (2/15)*
"The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work, & Play" by James C. Whorton (370pgs, 2011) (2/19)*
"Bob Hope: A Tribute" by Raymond Strait (483pgs, 2003) (2/20)*
"Seven Ages of Britain" by Justin Pollard (294pgs, 2005) (2/22)*
"England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton" by Kate Williams (395pgs, 2006) (2/25)*
"The Betsy-Tacy Treasury: Betsy-Tacy, Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill and Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown" by Maud Hart Lovelace
(722pgs, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 2011ed) (2/27)
"Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor" by Rosina Harrison (358pgs, 1975orig., 2011ed) (2/28)
"Death and the Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I and the Dark Scandal That Rocked the Throne" by Chris Skidmore (389pgs, 2010) (2/28)*
"Ghosthunting Florida" by Dave Lapham (210pgs, 2010) (2/29)
Pages: 5774 - 412pgs aver (4 BF, 10 Own)

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[SonjaMarie]

March 2012 13
"Celebrity In Death" by J.D. Robb (390pgs, 2012) (3/3)*
"For the King" by Catherine Delors (336pgs, 2011) (3/6)
"The Greatest Knight: The Unsung Story of the Queen's Champion" by Elizabeth Chadwick (539pgs, 2005) (3/8)
"Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee" by Noralee Frankel (263pgs, 2010) (3/12)
"A History of Courting" by E.S. Turner (242pgs, 1954) (3/12)*
"Dead Hunt: Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation #5" by Beverly Connor (372pgs, 2008) (3/20)*
"Monsieur d'Eon Is A Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade" by Gary Kates (320pgs, 1995) (3/20)*
"The Dragon Seekers: How An Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs & Paved the Way for Darwin" by Christopher McGowan
(221pgs, 2001) (3/20)*
"Plunder: A Faye Longchamp Mystery #7" by Mary Anna Evans (296pgs, 2012) (3/22)
"English Society in the Eighteenth Century" by Roy Porter (386pgs, 1983) (3/23)*
"Feast: Why Humans Share Food" by Martin Jones (304pgs, 2007) (3/23)*
"Concierge Confidential: The Secrets of Serving Champagne Bitches & Caviar Queens" by Michael Fazio w/Michael Malice (270pgs, 2011) (3/27)
"A Voyage Long & Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, & Other Adventures in Early America" by Tony Horwitz (391pgs, 2008) (3/31)*
Pages: 4330 - 333pgs aver (5 BF, 8 Own)

[SonjaMarie]

April 2012 14
"Tawdry Knickers&Other Unfortunate Ways to be Remembered: A Saucy&Spirited History of Ninety Notorious Namesakes" by Alex Novak (223pgs, 2010) (4/1)
"Richard II (Yale English Monarchs)" by Nigel Saul (492pgs, 1997) (4/4)*
"The Sister Queens" by Sophie Perinot (507pgs, 2012) (4/5)
"The Deception at Lyme (Or, The Peril of Persuasion): A Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery #6" by Carrie Bebris (295pgs, 2011) (4/8)*
"Spinning Straw Into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations In A Woman's Life" by Joan Gould (355pgs, 2005) (4/16)*
"The Astonishing History of the Medical Profession (aka Call the Doctor)" by E.S. Turner (247pgs, 1961) (4/19)*
"Selected Letters" by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, ed. Isobel Grundy (526pgs, 1997) (4/20)*
"The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century" by John Brewer (698pgs, 1997) (4/20)*
"Remarkable Creatures" by Tracy Chevalier (344pgs, 2009) (4/21)*
"The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation" by Jon M. Sweeney (252pgs, 2012) (4/23)
"Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters At Home and Abroad" by Jehanne Wake (363pgs, 2010) (4/23)
"Scattered Graves: Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation #6" by Beverly Connor (351pgs, 2009) (4/23)*
"The Mental Floss History of the United States" by Eric Sass w/ Will Pearson & Mangesh Hattikudur (412pgs, 2011) (4/26)
"The Good Old Days: Crime, Murder and Mayhem in Victorian London" by Gilda O'Neill (306pgs, 2006) (4/30)*
Pages: 5381 - 384pgs aver (5 BF, 9 Own)

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[SonjaMarie]

May 2012 18
"Deja Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom #4" by Julie Kenner (326pgs, 2008) (5/5)
"The Flower Reader" by Elizabeth Loupas (419pgs, 2012) (5/5)
"The Children's Blizzard" by David Laskin (273pgs, 2005) (5/9)*
"The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830 - 1900" by F.M.L. Thompson (349pgs, 1988) (5/11)*
"The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770 - 1868" by V.A.C. Gatrell (627pgs, 1996) (5/12)*
"The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican" by Benjamin Blech & Roy Doliner (333pgs, 2008) (5/13)*
"Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450 - 1500" by Henrietta Leyser (323pgs, 1996) (5/14)*
"If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home" by Lucy Worsley (535pgs, 2012) (5/15)* (K)
"Mistress to An Age: A Life of Madame de Staël" by J. Christopher Herold (492pgs, 1958) (5/15)*
"The Scarlet Lion" Book 2 by Elizabeth Chadwick (556pgs, 2010) (5/17)
"Down With the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster" by Steven Biel (251pgs, 1996orig, 2012ed) (5/21)
"The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King" by Ian Mortimer (405pgs, 2007) (5/21)*
"Savoring the Past: The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789" by Barbara K. Wheaton (240pgs, 1983) (5/22)*
"Archaeology: The Science of Once and Future Things" by Brian Hayden (469pgs, 1993) (5/22)*
"The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science" by Douglas Starr (259pgs, 2010) (5/24)
"The Emerald Storm: Ethan Gage Book #5" by William Dietrich (502pgs, 2012) (5/26)* (K)
"Road to Divorce: England 1530 - 1987" by Lawrence Stone (477pgs, 1990) (5/29)*
"Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman" by Elizabeth Abbott (531pgs, 2003orig, 2010ed) (5/30)* (K)
Pages: 7367 - 409pgs aver. (5 BF, 13 Own (3 Kindle))

SM

[rockygirl]

Are the Betsy and Tacy books as wonderful as an adult as they were as a child?

[SonjaMarie]

Originally Posted by rockygirl

Are the Betsy and Tacy books as wonderful as an adult as they were as a child?

There's a story behind it. When I was under 10 years old, I won a book from Scholastic books and I chose "Betsy, Tacy and Tib", I loved it. But I didn't know it was the 2nd book or that there were move of them.

I found that out years later but I was already an adult and decided not to read them. Then the service I use, Booksfree, got the book that had the first four stories, I decided to rent it, and I really enjoyed them! I hope the other books will be put in anthologies as well.

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[SonjaMarie]

June 2012 21
"Cemetery Walk: A Journey Into the Art, History and Society of the Cemetery and Beyond" by Minda Powers-Douglas (401pgs, 2005) (6/3)* (K)
"Magpies, Squirrels & Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World" by Jacqueline Yallop (526pgs, 2011) (6/3)* (K)
"City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London" by Judith R. Walkowitz (259pgs, 1992) (6/4)*
"Incubus: Fairwick Chronicles #1" by Carol Goodman (466pgs, 2011) (6/5)*
"Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings" by Alison Weir (314pgs, 2011) (6/5)*
"Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt" by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II (456pgs, 1989) (6/6)*
"Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife" by Mary Roach (295pgs, 2005) (6/7)*
"The Courtesan's Lover" by Gabrielle Kimm (515pgs, 2012) (6/12)
"Fanny Burney" by Claire Harman (390pgs, 2000) (6/14)*
"Time Traveller: In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals From Montana to Mongolia" by Michael Novacek (323pgs, 2002) (6/15)*
"The Axman Came From Hell and Other Southern True Crime Stories" by Keven McQueen (214pgs, 2011) (6/15)
"Britons: Forging the Nation 1707 - 1837" by Linda Colley (384pgs, 1992) (6/17)*
"The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera" by Sandra Hempel (295pgs, 2007) (6/18)*
"The Last Days of Cleveland and More True Tales of Crime and Disaster From Cleveland's Past" by John Stark Bellamy II (246pgs, 2010) (6/18)
"Killer on a Hot Tin Roof: Literary Tour Mystery #3" by Livia J. Washburn (250pgs, 2010) (6/18)
"At Home: A Short History of Private Life" by Bill Bryson (452pgs, 2010) (6/23)*
"Her Highness, the Traitor" by Susan Higginbotham (318pgs, 2012) (6/24)*
"Murder on the Oceanic: A George Porter Dillman & Genevieve Masefield Mystery #7" by Conrad Allen (281pgs, 2006) (6/25)*
"At Day's Close: Night in Times Past" by A. Roger Ekirch (357pgs, 2005) (6/27)* (K)
"Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servent" by Jeremy Musson (317pgs, 2010) (6/30)*
Pages: 7391 - 351pgs aver. (5 BF, 16 Own (3 Kindle))

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[SonjaMarie]

July 2012 21
"Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans" by Brian Fagan (272pgs, 2010) (7/1)*
"Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady" by Kate Summerscale (239pgs, 2012) (7/2)* (K)
"The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times" by Adrienne Mayor (294pgs, 2001orig, 2011ed) (7/4)*
"The Kings' Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin" by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith (245pgs, 2012) (7/4)~
"The Not-So-Nude Ride of Lady Godiva & Other Morsels of Misinformation From the History Books" by David Haviland (316pgs, 2012) (7/4)
"Treasure Hunt: Shipwreck, Diving, and the Quest for Treasure in an Age of Heroes" by Peter Earle (389pgs, 2011) (7/5)* (K)
"The World of Pompeii" ed by John J. Dobbins and Pedar W. Foss (657pgs, 2007) (7/7)*
"Henry V (Yale English Monarchs)" by Christopher Allmand (458pgs, 1992) (7/7)*
"The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized A City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars" by Paul Collins (273pgs, 2011) (7/8)
"From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women 1847 - 1928" by Julia P. Gelardi (423pgs, 2011) (7/8)*
"Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear" by Jan Bondeson (276pgs, 2002) (7/20)*
"Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of "Shadow Divers" John Chatterton & Richie Kohler" by Brad Matsen (308pgs, 2008) (7/22)*
"The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb" by Melanie Benjamin (436pgs, 2012) (7/23)
"Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire" by Judith Herrin (392pgs, 2008) (7/23)*
"Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire" by Simon Baker (353pgs, 2007) (7/26)* (K)
"If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't)" by Betty White (261pgs, 2011) (7/26)
"The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason" by Iain McCalman (246pgs, 2003) (7/27)*
"Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin, and John Everett Millais" by Suzanne Fagence Cooper (258pgs, 2010) (7/27)
"To Defy A King" Book 3 by Elizabeth Chadwick (484pgs, 2011) (7/29)* (K)
"Their Noble Lordships: How to Tell a Duke From an Earl...And Other Mysteries Solved" by Simon Winchester (274pgs, 1984orig, 2012ed) (7/30)* (K)
"Victorian Things" by Asa Briggs (415pgs, 1988) (7/31)*
Pages: 7239 - 344pgs aver (5 BF, 15 Own (5 Kindle), 1 Loan)