Samantha's comments (member since Jan 02, 2009)

Samantha's comments from the European Royalty group.

Let's do Katherine!!!

Yay for Outlander!!! I have never read it but I own it, it's been calling to me on my bookshelf for two years!! I can't shut it up. I'm even more excited since I hear it's got its share of steamy romance. I love a good bodice-ripping time travel story. Hehehe

For me it is a tie between Katherine and Outlander. Either one would be great!!

Name::: Samantha
Where you're from::: Houston, TX
Where you live now::: Dallas, TX
Birthday::: 3/13/85
Family::: Only child from a single parent with a boyfriend of four years and one crazy cat
Job::: Secretary
Hobbies::: escapism of all kinds.
Favorite Book::: too many! I'll say the Autobiography of Henry XIII by Margaret George
Movie::: Harold and Maude
Song::: A Case of You by Joni Mitchell
Food::: Sushi, or Mexican of any kind
Smell::: Frankincense, Lilacs and Fresh Tortillas
Sport::: hahahaha
Any websites you want to share::: www.icanhascheezburger.com is hilarious
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!)::: I wanted to find stories about women and men in history that I liked to related to. I always hated history class in school because it was all dates and wars and nothing personal, revealing or even exciting in the least bit. Historical fiction puts a face on history and gives you the opportunity to make an emotional investment in the things that have shaped the world as we know it. Because we use fiction to understand all humans everywhere, we use Historical fiction to understand where we all came from. *phew*

Anyone seen Helen Mirren as Elizabeth in the two part HBO special? Truly my favorite (and most accurate) portrayal of her I've ever seen on film. She's not drop dead gorgeous like Cate Blanchett, she's not a true crone like Judi Dench, She's not put on some sort of mythic pedestal.

As for the Tudors, what a crock of sh*t. Pardon my saying, but it upsets me that our beloved Tudors are being glorified and sugar coated and made-for-TV like that. Give me a dirty fat pus stinking womanizing paranoid Henry any day and I'd still love him for it!!

I nominate Diana Gabaldon's Outlander as well. I have it and am dying to crack it open, it would be fun if we could do a discussion about it. Not sure if it counts as royalty fiction but i hear its fantastic all the same. Also, has anyone thought about Anya Seton's historical novels about some of the English Royalty like "Katherine". I love the time period in European History of the 13th and 14 century, before the Rennaissance.