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Catherine 👑 has been my obsession this year so excited to read this!! The purple necklace 💜😘

Wrapped gifts for my little readers 😘😘😘

Snacks for spring break!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

@Karisa your note made me cry. 🥰😍😘

This was so much fun! I love it all!!

Thanks @KateReadsYA

#LitsyFoundFamilySwap

I‘ve been watching in Russian Ekaterina II on Amazon Prime which reminded me to read these two books and get the others I‘ve wanted. She both fascinates me and makes me love her spirit 🫣😅
She politically did a lot, but of course that‘s not what people focus on, because of course.

#hygeehour nerd me 😂♥️

Fun tea towel found at the dollar store!

Coffee instead of cocoa 😳

No school again tomorrow ❄️🥶 too cold and icy.

#wintergames #teamreindeergames 6 pts

A cute royal romance - completely ridiculous but loveable. On Prime.

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I was hopeful this would be an exciting story from Catherine the Great 's POV. It has good reviews, but it left me empty. Even her role in the coup lacked drama and excitement, focusing instead on the importance of the clothes she wore. Silly me bought the whole series at once. Let's see if The Winter Palace changes my mind on this writing style. Fingers crossed. 😮‍💨

Robert K. Massie always brings out the human side in his biographies. That personal touch makes all the difference because it makes historical figures feel like people who lived lives rather than statues who did great or terrible or mediocre things.

I had a bit of a hard time concentrating on this one but I am unsure if it was me or the book.
I was very interested after watching Hulus The Great to see how much was true there (not much) and to see how Austria's Marie Theresa overlapped after reading a fantastic book on her earlier this year. The relationship with MT's son and Catherine was interesting, a long with all of her relationships I enjoyed learning about her fight for 👇👇👇

I am determined to get to the tagged book this month, it has been on my shelf for a couple of years now.

#bookspinbingo clean board for August!
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#bookmoods #royalty #silence #inthemountains #setinthe60s
I've neglected this challenge after a burst of enthusiastic posting at the beginning of the month but its been a busy few weeks. So in no particular order I've gone thru my back list to reference Catherine The Great, Alan Turing (murmur is nearly slience), a ghost story in the himalayas, and a 60s folk rock group. Hopefully I'll finish June with a burst of posts !!!

More dangerous reading....

#MonthofReadingDeferral

#aboutarealorfictionalroyal #booked2022
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Oleg is an aspiring screenwriter who produces a script abt Catherine The Great, mocked by his g/f for the detail, it finds favour inbthe 80s with the soviet film Committee but he is sacked mid prodn. Skip to the 90s and a new raunchy TV series begins in which he consults. As well as the story of Catherine this story goes into post war + post wall Russia.