Joan of Arc: A History | 
pickWell-written history, touch of snark to keep it snappy. Extra scene-setting for full background on warring factions (Joan only shows up halfway through the book!). Symbols. Gossip. Momentum & miracles. Joan leads the battles, God gets the credit. Even back then, calls of “slut” & “blasphemous whore.” But rocks & slurs & arrows be dammed, battle Joan rises again. In men‘s hose & doublets! Trial, pyre, rehabilitation. Charisma & force of will. 2015
4 hours into an 11 hour audiobook, no Joan yet. The history of the hot mess France had become is great & well told; it would probably zip along in print. For me, it just isn't working as an audiobook.
so-soNot my fave Joan of Arc book, but it was good. This definitely covers a lot of history. I liked the epilogue, sort of the after, or what happened next.
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This prompt is conjuring up all kinds of images in my mind ... it led to me to thinking of Joan of Arc
#JuneTunz #Gold Here are two books from my stacks that have lots of sparkly, glitzy gold on their covers. Norse Mythology I loved (both the audio read by Gaiman and the print book) and Joan of Arc is in my #TBR stack. I bought it at the thrift store several weeks, partially because I was drawn to the shiny gold cover. 😆💛📚
pickA brilliant and moving work of political history, which brought to life the complex landscape of Joan's world before introducing us to her, thereby showing us how extraordinary she really was. I could hardly put it down.
Despite a cast of characters that's more complicated than a soap opera, this is an awesome read.
