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March 2009 - What are you reading?
- sweetpotatoboy
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Just started reading Queen of Shadows: A Novel of Isabella, Wife of Edward II by Edith Felber.
Edit: Stopped at page 25 and don't plan on finishing it. Too romancy and tabloid-ish for me.
Edit: Stopped at page 25 and don't plan on finishing it. Too romancy and tabloid-ish for me.
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- boswellbaxter
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[quote=""Leyland""]Just started reading Queen of Shadows: A Novel of Isabella, Wife of Edward II by Edith Felber.
Edit: Stopped at page 25 and don't plan on finishing it. Too romancy and tabloid-ish for me.[/quote]
I was wondering what you'd think of that one. The inaccuracies in it are myriad (even in the author's note), and the ending is so anticlimatic I still can't believe it got past the editor.
Edit: Stopped at page 25 and don't plan on finishing it. Too romancy and tabloid-ish for me.[/quote]
I was wondering what you'd think of that one. The inaccuracies in it are myriad (even in the author's note), and the ending is so anticlimatic I still can't believe it got past the editor.
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[quote=""boswellbaxter""]I was wondering what you'd think of that one. The inaccuracies in it are myriad (even in the author's note), and the ending is so anticlimatic I still can't believe it got past the editor.[/quote]
I thought about reading that one eventually but thankfully decided not to!
SM
I thought about reading that one eventually but thankfully decided not to!
SM
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[quote=""SonjaMarie""]I thought about reading that one eventually but thankfully decided not to!
SM[/quote]
There were some good moments, mainly between Isabella and Despenser, but not enough to save it.
SM[/quote]
There were some good moments, mainly between Isabella and Despenser, but not enough to save it.
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I'm reading Drood by Dan Simmons (narrated by Wilkie Collins about Charles Dickens).
Susan Higginbotham
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