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#MayMontage #Queen Great book about Kings and Queens of England before the Tudors.

🎧 Some good history & now I know where some horror authors get their ideas …. I was in the mood for some history & this hot the spot. Great audiobook! A lot of interesting history! If you‘re looking for some nonfiction, this is a good one,

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Breakfast reading. I started this last night, and it is excellent so far. I'm trying to catch up with the Tides of History podcast, and the host recommended one of this author's other books in an episode about summer reading.

I've been watching several of Dan Jones's history documentaries recently, which are very good so I thought I'd check out the first of his books. Great book, I didn't know much about the time period before so it was really interesting and I'm looking forward to reading the followup book, The Hollow Crown.

So I‘m reading this, and there‘s this but about how King John (a la Robin Hood fame) imprisoned his young nephew, Prince Arthur, and I looked up more about it. This paining has really stayed with me. It‘s Prince Arthur with Hubert de Burgh, who guarded the young prince during his imprisonment.

King Phillip II of France and Prince Geoffrey, Henry II‘s son were DEFINITELY gay

I‘ve been a bad Litten during the pandemic, but I‘m back!

I‘m soaking this behemoth in through my ears

#weeklyforecast for me!
I‘m going to continue on with Better Nate than Ever (at bedtime w/ my son!), Vampires in the Lemon Grove (3 out of 8 stories down), and The Plantagenets, and hopefully reread The Great Gatsby, and read Who Will Run the Frog Hospital, as well as the two plays The Pillowman, and Present Laughter (which I am seeing Saturday!)

Hi everyone! I‘ve been MIA all month since I had to read this book then write a critical review of it for the class I‘m taking at my local community college! But now it‘s all done and handed in so I can finally read for fun again and it‘s so good to be back on Litsy! 🥰🥰

For some context on the Richard ll #ShakespeareReadAlong this month, I watched this excellent 2014 documentary series on the Plantagenets, hosted by Dan Jones. Available on YouTube; the fourth & last episode is about Richard ll https://bit.ly/2M4yql6 @GingerAntics

Jones is an engaging storyteller. Now I want to read the tagged book! But it hasn't helped made me get over my fear of the regnal names of British monarchs 😂 #justoneHenryafteranother

Took some inspiration from Litsy and did a #sibswap with @Kathleenkelly . Thanks! I look forward to reading these this summer.

A long but worthwhile account of a lesser-known era in history. As a teacher, I found many of the stories and accounts helpful as I briefly covered this time period in English history. Each chapter is brief and reads fairly easy. Can be digested in tiny bites.

#royalty #riotgrams
Some Plantagenet books 😁

Just drove from Houston to Casper Wyoming to bring my mom back home. The two day drive was the perfect length to start and finish this book. I needed a book that we could both listen to and this one was awesome. It seems that narcissistic tyrants have been around a lot longer than I thought... now I have to make the reverse trip alone and need to find something else that listen to.

Makes GOT's look tame!

Well written and interesting history of the Plantagenet dynasty. Henry I, Eleanor of Aquatain, Richard the Lionheart. Plus their interesting and at times bloodthirsty descendants.

This is the longest audiobook I have listened to so far (usually live in the 8-13 hour range). Halfway there!

This was a fascinating look at a period of English history and the beginning of a dynasty. It's a pretty long book and dense with detail so it takes some commitment to read but it is well worth the effort and time.

I had hoped to join the #slaythatseriesreadathon this weekend but I didn't make enough progress on my current book, which disappears from my Overdrive on Monday like Cinderella's carriage.

I am OBSESSED with this royal dynasty! 🏰👸🏻 #Plantagenet #monarchy #history

All my Overdrive holds came in at the same time (of course!) so I am starting with the longest one and hoping I can get them all read.

This only looks like a #chunkster because it's hardback but still a large book this family. #splashintosummerreads

#ruletheworld #JuneTunz
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This lot definitely wanted to rule the world 😀

I have read this book, but I figured it was appropriate for this prompt since the British did their best to #RuleTheWorld. #JuneTunz

4/5⭐️. Good historical read for anyone interested in the family that was usurped by the Tutors.
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I thoroughly enjoyed the writing style and the work as a whole.

This book is so completely DOPE😎 on Age of Glory (almost done) history at its finest ❤️loving it!

Some of my #doorstoppers for #riotgrams. Anyone who has read the Outlander series knows how much these books fit this category 😁

After many months of perseverance, I finished Dan Jones' excellent history of medieval tyrant kings. I wonder what I could read next that would have similar themes.... The news?

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The Plantagenet dynasty featured some of England's most famous kings (Richard the Lionheart), some of her most infamous (Edward II), and even a few great queens (Eleanor of Aquitaine). In this book, Jones shows how their legacy helped shape England into the country it is today in readable fashion, though the book does get kind of dry in some places.

Happy New Year, everybody! Here are my bookish stats for December. Obviously much lower than the numbers from previous months, but that's to be expected because of the holidays; kind of hard to keep up with both reading AND social media when there's family around ^^;. Anyway I'll be doing a much larger stat post for my 2016 reading once I'm done crunching the numbers on my Excel file, condensed down to extra-tasty pie charts ;D.

I was already three-fourths of the way through this hefty thing when I realized that I hadn't mentioned anything about it online. Oops! Then again, holiday season can make one forget things - especially when my sister is home and she hands me an entire box of Middle-Eastern pastries all for myself XD.

Listening to this while waiting until 7:10 when I can leave work and parent teacher confernences... tick Tock with English royalty.

Found out that through Amazon prime can access some free audiobooks through audible.com. Not a huge selection but a few good ones and some serial channels too... Giving this one a shot to feed my English royalty obsession but finding it hard to concentrate on it at work :( but free is good and will try again in the car.

Listening to this on #audible. There's still 19+ hours to go but it's such a good story! 🗡🛡👑

"Rather than wait for her husband's knights, she placed her faith in her own resourcefulness."

Catching up on reviews. I found this to be both informative and entertaining, showing both the personalities of the royal family and how the monarchy developed as an institution. I enjoyed hearing both about the better kings whom we've heard of and the worse kings whom...there were reasons why I didn't know much about them. Clive Chafer's narration, calm with a wry touch, is well-suited to the book.

I've also reread 8 books this year. I'm close to my totals from last year--25 new books and 7 rereads. I know this isn't a lot for many Litsy denizens, but these totals reflect some positive life changes that I made this year, so I'm quite pleased.

As my go-to audiobook, I've mostly been reading this one the most while out and about today. Currently amused by the fact that Henry III naming his first son Edward was considered an archaic deviation from the acceptable names for Plantagenet heirs: Henry, William, Richard, John, or maybe Geoffrey.

Of course, now England is in civil war again, so there are bigger problems than what he named the kid.

#24in48 It is teatime. Meanwhile, Henry III surrounds himself with all the wrong people.

"Later, another legend of the Lionheart sprung up, to the effect that the king spent his final days on earth having sex with local youths. It is unlikely that this was true, for Richard was dying of gangrene." ?

In Henry II's time, punishments for all crimes were mutilation, exile, and death. People were tried by water, in the same way we associate with witch trials.

On first reading, I was glad that we had moved past those forms of punishment.

But we haven't. Not at all. 😢

You know your mind is on the Raven Cycle when you keep waiting for Glendower to come up in this book. It's possible. But the lives of these monarchs are plenty interesting all the same. I'm up to Eleanor of Aquitaine and enjoying her badassery.

I got these two books by Dan Jones recently -- a local bookstore is going out of business (don't you hate when that happens 😢😩) --and so now they're part of my royal history section. Thinking I may read The Wars of the Roses first, even though that era is after the Plantagenets. Hmmm...

If you love anything Game of Thrones, you will love this book. The narration reads like historical fiction - interesting, exciting, never dry. Basically history if it were candy.