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Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
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Start date
September 1, 2015
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September 30, 2015
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Erin
Sep 04, 2015 rated it liked it
I definitely would have liked this book more if I hadn't read the Disney-princesses-are-ruining-our-lives preface. Sure, the book didn't present many "happy ending" scenarios, but I didn't always appreciate the way certain details were skimmed over. No matter what the story, the 'princess' in the story always seemed to get the benefit of the doubt where the author was concerned. I'm not saying some of that perspective wasn't justified (and sure, it's probably missing from most history books) - b ...more
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Mar 01, 2018 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition