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zanthewitch
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 Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:46 am Post subject: Zan's gone Tudor Crazy |
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I'm currently reading everything I can find on the Tudors - mostly Henry VII - and his wives. Everyone from Antonia Frazer to Phillipa Gregory, some fact some fiction.
I'm also reading The Kite Runner
and my TBR pile includes Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Eclectic tastes eh!!
ZaN
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eightlegs
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Eclectic is best in my opinion. I've read quite a few tudor ones, including Antonia Fraser, Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, and thoroughly enjoy them. Reading does tend to go in phases sometimes, though saying that, couldn't say what my current phase might be!
I'm planning to read Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks next as it's on loan from a friend, I'm currently reading On the Edge by Richard Hammond, about his life before and after the accident. |
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Daniela-26
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I loved reading the Philippa Gregory Tudor novels. I was always rubbish at history so i felt like Iwas learning as I read...not to mention that I also became addicted!
Eclectic is a good way to be I think ~ it leaves you open to so much that's out there and at least you don't get stuck in a rut!
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zanthewitch
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I'll be interested to know what you think of this. I love his presenting style. Being in a house of petrol heads I have to watch a LOT of Top Gear etc!!
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zanthewitch
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I'm working though a pile of Jean Plaidy at the moment.
Currently The Virgin Widow.
I find her style simplistic (not very descriptive) but enjoyable when I don't want to tax my exhausted brain!
If I want taxing I'll go for a Stephen King - we all know he can use 3 pages to describe a pair of worn out shoes.... 
It's right what you say about History - I am enjoying more now I don't need to get good grades....lol.
I never thought a lot about Katherine of Aragon - but I feel so sad for her life once she left Spain. How dreadfully women were treated in those times, even Royal Princesses. Sent from her home & family, married to an ailing prince, widowed, kept in poverty at Henry VII's hands. Ignored by her father, then married to Henry VIII - who passed her over for Anne Boleyn. I'm sure they never taught us this at school !!! We learned by rote the 6 wives names - the years Henry ruled - who succeeded him and why. But we were never taught to look at any of these figures as 'people' will lives, flesh and feelings.
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heathera
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I never thought a lot about Katherine of Aragon - but I feel so sad for her life once she left Spain. How dreadfully women were treated in those times, even Royal Princesses. Sent from her home & family, married to an ailing prince, widowed, kept in poverty at Henry VII's hands. Ignored by her father, then married to Henry VIII - who passed her over for Anne Boleyn. I'm sure they never taught us this at school !!! We learned by rote the 6 wives names - the years Henry ruled - who succeeded him and why. But we were never taught to look at any of these figures as 'people' will lives, flesh and feelings.
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This is very true. I still to this day don't much know very much about Henry VIII's wives.
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