venetia_sassy | Wednesday Reading Meme

Books of September

Underline: Greatly enjoyed; highly recommend.
~~Strikethrough~~: Did not like; do not recommend.
#Meh# It was okay; had some good points but I'm not keeping it.

Non-fiction

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation by David A. Price

~~The Princes in the Tower~~ by Alison Weir (Ooh, this pissed me off. It was so slipshod and biased and just so ... sloppy I was ready to declare myself pro-Richard just to spite the author. And I hadn't even cared! Fortunately, the following book was a lot more even-handed and methodical and the author had obviously been annoyed by the Weir book as well, providing some specific refutations.

Royal Blood: Richard III And The Mystery Of The Princes by Bertram Fields

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor (So many fierce and awesome ladies!)

#Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History# by Timothy Wilson-Smith

Mary Tudor: England's First Queen by Anna Whitelock

Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser

#The Queen's Agent : Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I# by John Cooper

The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England by Antonia Fraser (reread)

Fiction - rereads

The Daughter Of Time by Josephine Tey

Georgette Heyer

I would recommend pretty much everything Heyer but I'm underlining some standouts among these.

A Civil Contract
April Lady
Arabella
Black Sheep
Charity Girl
Cotillion
Cousin Kate
False Colours
Frederica
Friday's Child
Lady of Quality
Pistols for Two
Sprig Muslin
Sylvester
The Corinthian
The Foundling
The Grand Sophy
The Nonesuch
The Quiet Gentleman
The Reluctant Widow
The Talisman Ring
The Toll-Gate
The Unknown Ajax
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