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Marie Antoinette: The Journey

An Empathetic Look Into a Misunderstood Monarch Author: Antonia Fraser Historically, Marie Antoinette is known as a vicious, yet fashionable queen, with her two-foot-high powdered pouf and miniature recreated village in the Trianon. Famous for stating “let them eat cake” when confronted with the poverty and starvation of French peasants, she was also known for her perversions and anti-France political machinations. But was Marie Antoinette as evil and extravagant as history has painted her, or was she in truth the victim of propaganda and discrimination? Antonia Fraser takes on Marie Antoinette’s life, from infancy to her execution, in this 500+ [...]

Frances Carden2024-07-27T13:47:52-07:00July 27th, 2024|Tags: biography, book review, France, French Revolution, history, Marie Antoinette, read, reading|

Golden Couple, The

Deadly Secrets Authors: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen Marissa and Matthew Bishop have an outwardly perfect life; after all, they’re both attractive and wealthy, the seeming golden couple with nothing but good luck and luxury in their future. Underneath that polished surface, however, there are issues. It began as a drifting and ended in an unexpected betrayal. Marissa, more than anyone, knows that drastic measures are needed to save this marriage, and so she seeks out the unorthodox, blockbuster therapist, known for losing her license because of her extreme methods. This therapist, Avery Chambers, is also known for her success, and [...]

Frances Carden2024-07-22T16:08:37-07:00July 22nd, 2024|Tags: book review, botm, read, reading, thriller|

Flint the King

Version 1.0.0 One of the Best Dragonlance Adventures Authors: Mark Kirchoff & Douglas Niles It’s five years before the companions’ reunion, that fateful meeting in Otik’s tavern that sparks a shattering war between good and evil. Each of the companions, during this time, is off on their own adventures, and each is starting to see pieces of the evil to come. For Flint, he is returning to Hillhome. But he doesn’t get the warm welcome he expected. Instead, he finds his family grieving, his brother dead, his alcoholic nephew running amok, and mountain dwarves having breached a centuries old [...]

Frances Carden2024-07-21T18:21:10-07:00July 21st, 2024|Tags: book review, dragonlance, fantasy, read, reading|