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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

Cuilin @dabbe @desha @rachel52 @rubyslippersreads @chaoticmissadventures @barkingmadread
@megnews @sblbooks
@thebookgeekfrau @bookwormjillk @spellboundReader @deblovestoread @jenniferw88
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Cuilin @mollyanna @jess861 @kspenmoll @ncsufoxes @Bluebird @julieclair @majkia @karisimo
@tdrosebud @rwmg @pathfindernicole @debinhawaii @alldebooks @covertocover
@itchyfeetreader @thegreensofa @ann_reads @rookpools @lizpixie @amiable @Desha @Sapphire @deblovestoread @bookwormjillk @Mitch @SamAnne @alldebooks @lil1inblue @LitsyEvents 3mo

rubyslippersreads One of my favorite eras for historical fiction! I‘ll have to figure out what I want to read. 😃 3mo

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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! 3mo

julieclair Love this choice! 3mo

Deblovestoread Love this time period. Nefertiti was a good read. Need to see what‘s on my shelf. 3mo

Deblovestoread @Cuilin Is there an October prompt? I must have missed it. 3mo

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 3mo

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. 3mo

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. 3mo

Cuilin @julieclair yay!! 3mo

Cuilin @Jess861 thanks, I like this one too. 3mo

Cuilin @Karisimo yes, looks promising 3mo

Cuilin @rubyslippersreads fabulous, I have a few ideas but haven‘t decided yet. 3mo

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. 3mo

TheBookgeekFrau Cool! The pictured suggestions look really good! 3mo

Cuilin @TheBookgeekFrau Now which one to choose. 🤔 3mo

TheBookgeekFrau @Cuilin 😂😂 Right?! 3mo

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 3mo

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 ! 3mo

Cuilin @Itchyfeetreader my daughter loved that book too. It‘s been on my TBR for years. 3mo

Karisimo @Cuilin what is the time period for December? 1mo

Cuilin @Karisimo thank you for reminding me. I will post it today and tag you. 🙏 1mo

Karisimo Thanks @Cuilin I was just starting my bookspin list 😊 1mo

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Rome753

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor | Anthony Everitt

Reading while listening to music. I don't always have music playing while reading. If I do, I usually like listening to either jazz or classical music.
What do you usually do? Do you like listening to music while reading?
#cats #catsandbooks #readingcats ##TuxedoCats #booksandmusic #readingandmusic

AnnCrystal ✨📚🎶🐈💫. Reading while listening to music is always grand 😎👍. 4mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I like silence, but of course I rarely get it! 4mo

Bookwomble I have to have music playing while reading 😊 4mo

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rwmg Not often, but if I do have music on it has to be instrumental or sung in a language I don't know so that my attention isn't split between the words on the page and the lyrics. 4mo

Rome753 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks It can be tough! 4mo

Rome753 @rwmg I know what you mean. 4mo

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 4mo

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Cuilin

The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus | Cassius Dio

@dabbe @desha @rachel52 @rubyslippersreads @chaoticmissadventures @barkingmadread
@megnews @sblbooks @thebookgeekfrau @bookwormjillk @deblovestoread @jenniferw88
@mollyanna @jess861 @kspenmoll @ncsufoxes @Bluebird @julieclair @majkia @karisimo
@tdrosebud @rwmg @pathfindernicole @willaful @debinhawaii @alldebooks @covertocover
@itchyfeetreader @thegreensofa @caitlin_sheridan @ann_reads @rookpools @lizpixie

TheBookgeekFrau Many - Cleopatra, Caesar (Julius and Augustus) Marc Antony, Cicero, Greek and Roman Gods, etc and so on 😂 1y

dabbe Heck ya! Claudius, Augustus, Livia, Antony, Cleopatra, Germanicus, Caligula ... I could go on and on. Same as you, @TheBookgeekFrau! 😍 1y

rwmg The Emperor Caligula puts in some appearances. His sisters Livilla and Agrippina get walk-on parts. (edited) 1y

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Bookwormjillk I‘m honestly not sure 🤣 1y

TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe It's like a star-studded night in Hollywood 🤣 1y

dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau 🤩⭐️🤩 1y

AnnR The book refers to Emperor Caesar. The timeframe of the story is well after the reign of the first emperor Caesar Augustus. Later on, the term 'Caesar' was used as an imperial title and not particularly a personal name. 1y

jenniferw88 Domitian Caesar - Younger son of the Emperor.
Titus Caesar - Elder son of the Emperor.
Vespasian Augustus - Emperor of Rome 1y

Cuilin @Ann_Reads lots of Caesars. 1y

Cuilin @jenniferw88 more Caesars 1y

AnnR @jenniferw88 @Cuilin Thanks for the information. I think the author of Tiger, Tiger purposely made the Emperor's identity vague, as this was a fictionalized account. I was confused at first though, thinking it was the first Caesar Augustus but the general time period doesn't match. (edited) 1y

Bluebird Nope, mine had none (or at least none that I recognized!) 1y

Deblovestoread Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Brutus, Herod are the ones I remember most. 1y

thegreensofa The multiple authors in my book (short stories) all took real characters and some unknown relatives, filling in the blanks with their own imagination. They tried to keep true but admitted to jazzing things up just slightly to get some points of their stories across. I think it was forgivable. Sadly, no one is left from Pompeii to differ. 1y

AnnR @Cuilin For future tagging, I changed my profile name to AnnR. Thank you. 1y

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sisilia

Augustus | John Williams

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5 glorious ⭐️!!! Wow! I love this epistolary format, and I admire John Williams for weaving different POVs and timelines effortlessly. It‘s so lively and refreshing I could almost see all the hand gestures 🤌

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Deblovestoread

Augustus | John Williams

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#BookedinTime I am fascinated by this time period and enjoyed this audio version of Augustus told through letters and diary entries of family, friends, enemies and the man himself. That being said the cast of characters was hard to get a handle on in the beginning and the entries were not linear which added to my confusion. Of course, this might be a me problem and not the books.

Cuilin

Cuilin Roman Civilization ✅🎉 I read Wolf Den (I have a copy of Augustus, if I‘ve time I‘ll read it this month). 1y

ChaoticMissAdventures I am hoping to read this one also! I am just waiting on the library, glad you enjoyed it. 1y

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sisilia

Augustus | John Williams

Starting this for book club meeting this weekend. I have been procrastinating because this is my last John Williams. I‘m a big fan of Stoner and Butcher‘s Crossing, and I‘m sure Augustus won‘t disappoint

Ruthiella I‘ve heard good things! I‘ve only read Stoner but definitely want to read his other books. 1y

Tamra Me too, big Williams fan. 💙 I wish he had written more. (edited) 1y

sisilia @Ruthiella @Tamra It‘s sooo good! I like that he told the stories via journals, letters etc. What a brilliant approach! 1y

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Hamlet There‘s one more by John Williams! It‘s his first novel: Nothing But the Night. I have it in a NYRB edition. 1y

sisilia @Hamlet I read that and didn‘t like it. Williams didn‘t like it either and disowned it🤪 1y

Hamlet @sisilia Thanks for the info! I just grabbed it off a shelf when I saw his name. 1y

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Deblovestoread

Augustus | John Williams

Final decision for our next #BookedinTime topic. Looking forward to the audio book,

Cuilin

Cuilin I have a copy of this too. I‘ll see if I can get to it. I‘ve narrowed down some choices. 1y

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AshleyHoss820

Augustus | Allan Massie

August is approaching and it feels unreal! Here‘s my #Bookspin for the month!

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 1y

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Twainy

Augustus | John Williams

The best of November. It didn‘t feel like an awesome reading month but when I sat down to choose my favorites I found it really difficult to choose!

30 audiobooks with hardcover/kindle companions. Here are 12 I‘d read or listen to again.

This is SO unusual but I finished 3 TV seasons/series this month. I loved The Sandman, Wednesday & 1899.

Did anyone watch any remarkable TV?

Meshell1313 1899 was FANTASTIC! 2y

Twainy @Meshell1313 YESSS! Director also did … Dark 😈 2y

Meshell1313 @Twainy yup! As soon I saw the Captain I had to look it up! Another fav! 2y

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