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TheEllieMo
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

#ABookADay2023

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Lcsmcat
Edward III | W Mark Ormrod
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Pickpick

Edward III is usually either lionized or denigrated, but Ormrod seeks (and I would say succeeds) to show him as fully human. At times amusing, but always readable, the biography is cradle-to-grave, not just the fighting. I have a greater appreciation for how much we have in common with medieval people, and how complex their lives were. Highly recommended!

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Lcsmcat
Edward III | W Mark Ormrod
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Edward III is dying, and I‘m only at 69%? #slowdeath

mrsmarch How much of what is left are the endnotes? 🫢 3y
Lcsmcat @mrsmarch The end notes are at the end of each chapter, which is why I was so surprised. But I‘m further along now and from 74% on is various appendices (with their own end notes!) 3y
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Lcsmcat
Edward III | W Mark Ormrod
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“The whole affair had served to confirm the contemporary belief that closed political systems had a tendency to implode, and that the ultimate effect of faction was simply to produce a paralysis of the state.” (Painting of Alice Perrers with Edward III) So, we have learned nothing politically since 1373, apparently. 🙄

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Lcsmcat
Edward III | W Mark Ormrod
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“Nothing, it seemed, quite became Queen Isabella's performance of queenship like the leaving of it.”

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Lcsmcat
Edward III | W Mark Ormrod
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“And in 1336, on a campaign in the north, Edward managed to break a nacker (the shallow kettledrum used by mounted musicians in medieval armies) belonging to one John Pot, presumably in an over-enthusiastic display of his percussion skills.”
It‘s sentences like this that make this an enjoyable read. @GingerAntics @Graywacke

Graywacke 😂 😂 3y
Graywacke I had to share that around the family (my son is in high school percussion) 3y
GingerAntics 😂🤣😂 3y
Lcsmcat @Graywacke I hope it amused him as it amused me. 3y
Graywacke @Lcsmcat I think he was as charmed as I am by it. 🙂 3y
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Lcsmcat
Edward III | W Mark Ormrod
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A rainy Saturday seems like as good a time as any to start a biography of a monarch who just may be an ancestor. #currentlyreading

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youneverarrived
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I definitely wouldn‘t have bought this if I knew it‘s focus was on the political history of England 🙈 it‘s fact after fact so hard to take all the information in and I wouldn‘t have got through it in print, but I found it relaxing to listen to on my walks. It‘s very dry but informative and it‘s clearly thoroughly researched and thought out. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #nonfiction2021 (free space)

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Wow, that does sound like a lot! 4y
rockpools Isn‘t it funny the things we find relaxing?! 4y
youneverarrived @rockpools yeah, I think it was mostly his voice 😂 4y
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jenniferw88
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It's always a #perfectpleasure to help littens find books for my #regency square on #jennyis30! ( @Cinfhen !!!) #newyearnewyou @Eggs

Eggs 💗📚👏🏻👍🏼 5y
TrishB Only Q9.99 on kindle. This is my least fave historical era and I will be struggling. 5y
Butterfinger Oh no @Trish Have you read any Georgette Heyer? She has humor in her works. It has certainly been awhile, but I am wanting to say to be mindful of discrimination. I can't think of anything specific right now. 5y
Cinfhen Thanks, Jenny!!!!! Keep the recommendations coming 💗😘 5y
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