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so-soYeah, I'm a bit meh on this Dumas book. I'm reading it for Twitch for Black History Month (Canada) because it's one of his shortest works. The trouble with this book is that it's a slow burn, with 13 long chapters of build up to all the action in the last 7 chapters. It's hard to get invested in the tragedy of Lucien and Louis. My viewers are enjoying it, surprisingly enough. It's the forgotten basis for a pile of SFF stories, too.
pickA well written and researched book on the life and times is Alex Dumas. There is a lot of history in here.
@iread2much I‘ve been looking forward to reading one of your favorite books for quite some time now. Thank you for this gift and for being a wonderful friend!
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But France did not have a normal government: it had a collection of caffeinated intellectuals conducting passionate nonstop shouting matches in the former royal riding school of the Tuileries palace.
This biography of Alex Dumas, the father of Alexandre Dumas, is anything but dry history. Reading about the son of a black slave who rises to prominence in the late eighteenth century is already engaging, and Reiss tells the story with a contemporary flair. Dumas‘s “new digs” are behind the Louvre and then there‘s this great beginning to a sentence: “Sexual adventure was trendy in 1784.”
pickWe‘ve had so much fun these past few days but we‘re both tuckered out lol 😂 it‘s a good kind of tired
Book haul from Goodwill after I dropped off donations there! I‘ve been wanting to read the bio of Alex Dumas (the Black Count) for a long time!! But right now am reading thru the grilling cookbook for new ideas (such a 1990s cover 😂) — we recently got a grill/smoker.
Read this one again and liked it just as much as on the first reading. 😊
Today you get a bonus #Recommendsday. Not a black author, so it won‘t count for the #BlackPublishingPower
This nonfiction book is about the man behind the Count of Monte Cristo, General Alex Dumas. Did you know Alexander Dumas‘s father was a famous general AND the son of a black slave who rose to become a famous general and who was the inspiration for many of his son‘s swashbuckling adventures novels.
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