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This has taken me three weeks - it felt like a real chunkster and at times a real slog. As ever with Penman the research is fabulous and the characters including the often forgotten women jumping the page, alive and vibrant. This is the 4th in her quintet about Henry, Elinor and their children and most is based around Richard‘s crusade and it is a little too battley for me! Did enjoy my last chapters and cocktail though

September 10 #IdiumInsights. BreakALeg one of the reasons this saying may have come to light was when David Garrick actually broke his leg when he was performing Richard 111 and continued to act 🎬 until the play was finished. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This is my #doublespin for July @TheAromaofBooks
I enjoyed this. It wasn't entirely true to the facts. But I like history and it was an easy and fast read. Was a bit disgusted with the way women were treated back then. Also how it was all about power. And then those two little boys living all alone in The tower. It makes me wonder if children were mature at a younger age than they're now.
TBR since 6/7/2023; 316 pages.

This was good. It was long, but Eleanor lived a long life. I have read one or two books about her, but it‘s been a while, and I don‘t recall the stories of Thomas a Becket and Richard the Lionheart, which Plaidy included in her book here. (Becket was a friend of Henry‘s and Richard was Eleanor and Henry‘s son.) Cont in comments...

Recent acquisitions 2 of 3:

📖 Katherine: A Novel by Anya Seton
📖 The Second Century: Latter-day Saints in Great Britain Volume I: 1937-1987 by Derek A. Cuthbert
📖 Your Faith Your Life: An Invitation to the Episcopal Church by Jennifer Gamber and Bill Lewellis

#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans

#MayMontage #Queen Great book about Kings and Queens of England before the Tudors.

A dense, informative look at the fumbles of passing the crown of England from the 1420s to the turn of the century. I knew nothing about any of it so it was all interesting to me, but I found it odd at the end to have read 300 pages of fascinating analysis only to have Jones sum it all up as James VI was worthless and doomed the Plantagenet line and the English people to decades of bloody unrest.
#DannyBoy is tired of my coughing disturbing him.

I listened to this book (it was free with my Audible subscription). It‘s no secret that I‘m obsessed with English history. Having already biographies of Henry IV and the Black Prince, how could I resist one of the father and brother respectively. John of Gaunt played a huge roll in his father‘s and nephew‘s reigns. Subsequent English monarchs also owe their existence to him as the Lancastrians, Yorks, and Tudors are all descendants! 👑

#Temptingtitles #withanoccupation

As I read this book, I‘m learning a lot. Like, for instance, Henry VI was an…ineffective king, shall we say.