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May 10
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Sarah
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Henrietta Howard: King's Mistress, Queen's Servant (Hardcover)
by Tracy Borman
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Sarah said:
"Really excellent. I had to have a friend bring this to me from the UK because it's not available in the U.S., at least not that I could find. I would have gotten even more out of it if I knew more about British royal history. Henrietta goes from b...more
Really excellent. I had to have a friend bring this to me from the UK because it's not available in the U.S., at least not that I could find. I would have gotten even more out of it if I knew more about British royal history. Henrietta goes from being the daughter of one of the leading families of Britain, loses her father in a deul, marries an abusive gambler, sinks to living in the slums, sells everything she has to travel to Germany to become part of the court of a woman who might, maybe be Queen of England someday, becomes another princess's servant, then the mistress of that woman's husband, then back to London when the English queen dies ... wow....less
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Sarah
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt (Paperback)
by David McCullough
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Sarah said:
"I always love McCullough, and this is no exception. My favorite, though, is still "John Adams."
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April 12
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Sarah
marked as to-read:
Terror and Consent : The Battle for the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by Philip Bobbitt
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February 24
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Sarah
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A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by Ernest Hemingway
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Sarah said:
"There's not much I can say about Hemingway that someone hasn't already said, and that person probably knows a lot more about literature than I do. But I love his writing and I loved this one.
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Sarah
marked as to-read:
Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying (Paperback)
by James M. Olson
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Sarah
marked as to-read:
The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Paperback)
by Antony Beevor
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Sarah
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Sarah said:
"So I first heard of this book when my grandmother said she wanted to read it (which turned out to be a little disturbing because right there in the first section the author makes a joke about a hypothetical kinky encounter with Italian twins and the ...more
So I first heard of this book when my grandmother said she wanted to read it (which turned out to be a little disturbing because right there in the first section the author makes a joke about a hypothetical kinky encounter with Italian twins and the letter she would write to Penthouse afterwards...somehow, I think my grandmother might be more amused than shocked, but I was still a little disconcerted.) A mere week later, someone gave me the book while on vacation. I read it in a weekend and enjoyed it, mainly because of the author's ability to tell some pretty funny stories and laugh at herself, not because of any profound spiritual lessons one might learn. Good airplane reading, nothing too heavy....less
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Sarah
marked as to-read:
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by Alison Weir
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Sarah
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by Ernest Hemingway
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Sarah
marked as to-read:
Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)
by George Orwell
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