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so-so#atozultimatechallenge #b #booktitle #c #colourinthetitle #r #authorsurname @AudiobookingWithLeah
#52bookclub25 #exploressocialclass (changed prompt from includes a heist to this as it's a better fit).
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so-soYeah, I'm a bit meh on this Dumas book. I'm reading it for Twitch for Black History Month (Canada) because it's one of his shortest works. The trouble with this book is that it's a slow burn, with 13 long chapters of build up to all the action in the last 7 chapters. It's hard to get invested in the tragedy of Lucien and Louis. My viewers are enjoying it, surprisingly enough. It's the forgotten basis for a pile of SFF stories, too.
pickA well written and researched book on the life and times is Alex Dumas. There is a lot of history in here.
@iread2much I‘ve been looking forward to reading one of your favorite books for quite some time now. Thank you for this gift and for being a wonderful friend!
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But France did not have a normal government: it had a collection of caffeinated intellectuals conducting passionate nonstop shouting matches in the former royal riding school of the Tuileries palace.
This biography of Alex Dumas, the father of Alexandre Dumas, is anything but dry history. Reading about the son of a black slave who rises to prominence in the late eighteenth century is already engaging, and Reiss tells the story with a contemporary flair. Dumas‘s “new digs” are behind the Louvre and then there‘s this great beginning to a sentence: “Sexual adventure was trendy in 1784.”
