Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth | 
panI had such high hopes for this book! I read historical fiction because I love how it pulls me in, and I just didn't get it from Fates and Traitors. I'm not sure if it was her writing style or the story itself, but I just found it boring and underwhelming. 😕
This book has been on my TBR list since I bought it at The Well-Read Moose in Coeur d' Alene about a year ago. I'm so excited to finally read it! And can we appreciate the cover for just a second 😍
#BookNLunch! #ThePoconoBookClub edition ???????!!! We had a good-sized group for today. Accompaniment this warm and sunny day was: a grilled asiago-gruyére-cheddar sandwich, baked cheddar-parmesan-asiago mac 'n cheese with bacon and bread crumbs, and Earl Grey tea. MMmmm ?! Happy reads & happy eats! ??? (The soup in the background was eggplant tomato with parmesan. It was said to be delicious! ?)
#BookNDinner! Accompaniment this cool and moist full moon night: angus burgers, TATER TOTS, steakhouse green beans, and Vanilla Coke. MMMmmm 😋! This has been another presentation of: #MrBookBookBabeKitchen. Happy reads & happy eats 😎👌🏻! #mrbooktotpics
Next up! This one is for the Read Harder Challenge. Because of the cover. Isn't it gorgeous?!
I accidentally knocked her table sign over and she laughed and said that now I have to get her book. No problem (it was on my list anyway). 😄📚
pickWow this book was so good. It's interesting how you know how the story ends but you still get so caught up in everything.
Let the holiday festivities begin...📚🎄 #bookhaul #holidaybreak #toread
pickI enjoyed this book, but it took forever to read it for some reason.
pickAnother between 3 and 3.5 stars. 🌟🌟🌟 This was an interesting story about John Wilkes Booth - assassin of President Lincoln - told from the perspective of the women in his life. I liked the story structure- the perspectives but some of this was drawn out and boring. The end is very good - the story of how Booth destroyed his family because of the shame he brought to their name.
The #librarystack #bookstack as of today. Hoping to get to GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT next week. Happy Friday!
For some reason this book has been a slow read. It's good though! I like the changing perspectives over time. #booth #historicalfiction #abrahamlincoln
Once I'm done Swimming Lessons, I'll be reading Fates and Traitors.
so-soA fictional retelling of John Wilkes booth through the eyes of the 4 woman that cared for him most.
This book kept going from exciting to boring and for me didn't really pick up consistently until Mary's chapter which is almost halfway into the book. I found that once the assassination was in motion I couldn't put the book down. Also the after effects of what Wilkes did on his family and these woman were particularly interesting.
3⭐️'s
"'My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself'"..."'because it is an enemy to thee.'"
pickThe story of John Wilkes Booth and the assassination of president Lincoln as told from the perspective of the women in Wilkes's life. I read it. I enjoyed it. Made me realize how little I knew about Booth's family and background (and it was interesting in and of itself). And I like the cover. That's all I've got! 😳
Dinner date with @WanderingBookaneer -- yummy pasta with shrimp, cold beer, good book, and great company! #bookndinner
Sometimes you read something that's surprisingly relevant to what's happening in real life.
so-soRomanticized view of the murderer behind Abraham Lincoln's death. I did like his mother's perspective.
pickOutstanding historical fiction told from the point of view of voices and perspectives that were new to me.
pickYou won't learn anything new about the Lincoln assassination if you've read up on it before, but this puts the people and events surrounding John Wilkes Booth and the assassination into a novel format and creates the story for you, which was pretty neat. The one thing I really loved was reading about Lucy Hale, who was the senator's daughter secretly engaged to Booth at the time of the assassination, as I didn't really know much about her before.
Ughhhhhh. I haven't finished a book in a week and a half now and I'm only 200 pages into this one. I'm enjoying it but it's taking forever. Now I'm trying to get some reading in, but my mom is at the Nationals game and wants me to watch for her on TV and is harassing me via text to find her. Mothers.
I used to live a couple miles from the Surratt house in Maryland (not the boarding house in DC) and the story they tell there is that Mary Surratt was 100% innocent and had no knowledge of the plans to assassinate Lincoln. After I got older and started doing my own research, it's a little hard to believe she had NO knowledge of it, so I don't buy their argument. I'm always so interested to read other takes on Surratt's (non)involvement.
Picked this up at the library yesterday! I have a small fascination with the Lincoln assassination and try to read most things about it and the people involved, so this novel about John Wilkes Booth should be interesting! Temporarily putting Heir of Fire on hold this morning so I can kick off #HelloOctober with this one.
Just had a birthday. I guess I'm pretty easy to shop for 😁 So excited for all of these!
pickLove this book about John Wilkes Booth's life. Although a work of fiction, Chiaverini has done a ton of research to provide readers with an accurate depiction of the man who killed Abraham Lincoln. Chiaverini focuses on four women close to Booth: his sister Asia, his mother, his fiancée, and the woman who owned the tavern where the plot to assassinate Lincoln was hatched.
