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Cleopatra VII, Daughter of the Nile | Kristiana Gregory

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Having read a biography of Cleopatra VII and watched documentaries and movies, this fictional diary was definitely a let-down. Can‘t tell if it‘s disappointing because I‘m an adult or because I know so much about her life. It was mostly being stuck in Rome waiting for a Roman army to come back with her and her father to Alexandria to quell the peasant and sibling rebellions. The ending part with all the facts was more interesting.

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Deblovestoread

Lily of the Nile | Stephanie Dray

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#BookedinTime

I enjoyed this audio book imagining what happened to the children of Marc Antony and Cleopatra after their deaths. I did find my mind wondering a bit as I listened and it‘s the beginning of a trilogy that I‘m not sure I will continue. 3.5 🌟

@Cuilin @dabbe

Cuilin ✅ 🎉 Some audio books are like that. 2mo

dabbe Your score's on the spreadsheet! 🤩 2mo

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Deblovestoread

Lily of the Nile | Stephanie Dray

Looking forward to the tagged book about the daughter of Cleopatra and Marc Antony. The first in a trilogy.

#BookedinTime @Cuilin @dabbe

dabbe On the spreadsheet! 🤩 3mo

Cuilin I‘m still trying to decide which one I‘m going to read I have a few options. Yours looks good though. 3mo

AnnCrystal 🤩👍💝. 3mo

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LitsyEvents

Cleopatra's Daughter: A Novel | Michelle Moran

#BookedInTime #TimeOfThePharaohs
Thanks to @Mollyanna for suggestion.
All are welcome, choose your own novel, review and tag @Cuilin and @dabbe

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Cuilin

Cleopatra's Daughter: A Novel | Michelle Moran

#BookedInTime #TimeOfThePharaohs

Thanks to @Mollyanna for suggestion.

All are welcome, choose your own novel, review and tag @Cuilin and @dabbe

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rubyslippersreads One of my favorite eras for historical fiction! I‘ll have to figure out what I want to read. 😃 4mo

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Karisimo I‘ve had this one on my TBR forever! Maybe now is the time! I just read Maria by this same author.

Nefertiti: A Novel

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Jess861 Oh I'm definitely going to try and find the time to jump in on this one!! Such an interesting topic and Era! 4mo

julieclair Love this choice! 4mo

Deblovestoread Love this time period. Nefertiti was a good read. Need to see what‘s on my shelf. 4mo

Deblovestoread @Cuilin Is there an October prompt? I must have missed it. 4mo

rwmg Are we counting the Ptolemies and especially Cleopatra VII? 332 BCE would be Alexander the Great\'s conquest of Egypt while Cleopatra VII died in 31 BCE. We don\'t know when Cleopatra Selene, Cleopatra\'s daughter of the tagged book, died but most likely the decade before or after 1 BCE 4mo

Cuilin @rwmg Yes, absolutely. I have one book about Alexander and one on Cleopatra not sure which one I will read, but they all count. 4mo

Cuilin @Deblovestoread so sorry, apparently I forgot to post October‘s prompt. 🤦‍♀️ I thought I did that back in May/June when I posted a few few months in a row, my bad. I guess October is a pick your own. 4mo

Cuilin @julieclair yay!! 4mo

Cuilin @Jess861 thanks, I like this one too. 4mo

Cuilin @Karisimo yes, looks promising 4mo

Cuilin @rubyslippersreads fabulous, I have a few ideas but haven‘t decided yet. 4mo

Mollyanna Yay! So excited. 😀. I have quite a few to choose from, but I‘ll probably start with

The Anubis Slayings

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Cuilin @Mollyanna A murder mystery in ancient Egypt? Sounds fantastic. 4mo

TheBookgeekFrau Cool! The pictured suggestions look really good! 4mo

Cuilin @TheBookgeekFrau Now which one to choose. 🤔 4mo

TheBookgeekFrau @Cuilin 😂😂 Right?! 4mo

julieclair I think a witch trial book will be fun for October, so I will be reading one about the Pendle Witch Trials,

The Daylight Gate

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Cuilin @julieclair sounds fabulous 4mo

Itchyfeetreader I read the Margaret George years ago and loved it. Will it be a reread or something different?! I appreciate the black for October I really want to clear something off my physical pile and am sure there will be options in there ! 4mo

Cuilin @Itchyfeetreader my daughter loved that book too. It‘s been on my TBR for years. 4mo

Karisimo @Cuilin what is the time period for December? 2mo

Cuilin @Karisimo thank you for reminding me. I will post it today and tag you. 🙏 2mo

Karisimo Thanks @Cuilin I was just starting my bookspin list 😊 2mo

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The October Horse: A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra | Colleen McCullough

October #bookspin 🤞🏻

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tpixie Fun!!! 4mo

tpixie I enjoyed for #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead with @Librarybelle

Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Lady Macbeth

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 4mo

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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt | Kara Cooney

This book should be titled, When Women "Ruled" the World instead. While I thought this was going to be about female empowerment/feminism... it's giving much more, "she was in power only bc... "xx" reason." Men were still seen as superior. I thought this was going to be about a time when women were seen as equals.. but the author enjoys pointing out the fact women were never equal - this was all coincidence/luck that brought them into their power.

reading.rainb0w I don't want to give a shit review because I'm annoyed over facts - it's not the authors fault, obviously - but I wish these women were seen in the same respective positive light as the men in that era - perhaps it actually Was the way it's been written, or perhaps it was different, yet we can't see it through that lens as a society today based on our limited perspective of reality/truth. 🤔 #currentlyreading #nonfiction 6mo

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thebacklistbook

Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth | Francine Prose

Just starting in on this one again.

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Andrea313

Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air | Harold Bloom

so-so

Antony and Cleopatra has never been a fave of mine so I hoped to find something new here to spark my interest. Unfortunately, though, it kind of fell flat. There was so much of the text included that I felt like I may as well just read the play, and the author's take on the character felt one-dimensional. Still, Bloom's love of Shakespeare is contagious so it's not a total miss. Definitely pick up the others in this series on Lear and Falstaff!

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