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Tanzanite's Reads - 2009

What have you read in 2009? Post your list here and update it as you go along! (One thread per member, please.)
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Telynor
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Post by Telynor » Tue September 1st, 2009, 1:28 am

[quote=""Tanzanite""]August:

Catherine de Medici - Leonie Frieda (non-fiction)[/quote]

What did you think of this one? I found it to be very enlightening.

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Post by Tanzanite » Tue September 1st, 2009, 4:48 pm

I liked it a lot. At times I got a little weary of reading all the details about the French religious wars, but overall, very interesting and readable.

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Post by Tanzanite » Thu October 1st, 2009, 3:45 pm

September:

The Stolen One by Suzannah Crowley
Sorcerer: Metamorphosis by Jack Whyte
The Love Knot by Vanessa Alexander
The Snow Mountain by Catherine Gavin
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert Massie
The King's Mistress by Emma Campion

Did not finish:
The Courts of Illusion by Rosemary Hawley Jarman

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Post by Tanzanite » Tue December 1st, 2009, 12:24 am

October:

The Beloved (a/k/a The Uncrowned Queen) - Posie Graeme Evans
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
Born of the Sun - Joan Wolf
Lady Macbeth - Susan Fraser King
Dreaming the Hound - Manda Scott

November:

The Time of Singing - Elizabeth Chadwick
Murder Most Royal - Jean Plaidy
The Lady in the Tower- Alison Weir
The She-Wolf - Pamela Bennetts.

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