Fiona's comments

Fiona's comments from the European Royalty group.

Note: Fiona is no longer a member of this group.

it's been a long time since I've read this book, I'd really like to re-read. I loved the first 4 though that I read them all in about a month. Considering Outlander is the shortest one of the lot - that's quite some feat!

I vote for Outlander too!

Thanks for the recommendation of Alison Weir - she does sound interesting and I've added it to my ever-growing tbr pile.

Fraser seems to be a good choice to start with by the sounds of it. I can't say I'm that interested in the Tudors but I'd like to read about the Stuarts and anyone else.

Is there any other good biographers out there, like Fraser? I can and will read anything but the person writing it has to be up my street. I can't stand some text books/non-fic that sound like they've been written by some bumbling professor that mumbles into their beard. Sociology text books I find are guilty of that, I haven't really read many historical non-fic apart from a couple of biographies.

I'm completely new to this sort of genre - any good non-fic, non-biographies out there?

Name: Fiona
Where you're from: South England, near Portsmouth.
Where you live now: Same dump
Birthday: 25th April 85
Family: None of my own
Job: Seeking, but volunteer in a hospital.
Hobbies: Reading, writing, films, walking, museums and recently started doing cross stitch.
Favorite:
Book: I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
Movie: Inside I'm Dancing (US title: Rory O'Shea)
Song: dunno
Food: smoked salmon!
Smell: smoked salmon
Sport: Yuck
Any websites you want to share: nooo
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!): By the time I got interested in history, school moved onto the boring war... I mean the cold war. So now I want to re-educate myself. Or rather, start educating myself seeing as school failed at that entirely.

Hi, I'm new. I haven't read much on European Royalty yet but it is really one of my new years resoltutions to read some more non-fiction.

The monthly book you are reading - The Kitchen Boy looks really interesting and I've added it to my to-read list. Unfotunately I'm on a book ban thanks to my humungous tbr pile in my bedroom...

But I'm interested in reading more non-fic especially on British and European history, including royalty of course!

I have some Antonia Fraser books to read - Charles II, Marie Antoinette, Cromwell (If HE counts!) and interested in more. So looking through this thread and thought I'll say hi.

I'm thinking of reading Fraser's Charles II next - good choice or no?

Have yet to read anything on European royalty. I'm pretty ignorant. (Shameful) but intend to fix that after I've read my current non-fic.