Pros: Plenty of little details of Tudor life and customs. Cons: The reader soon becomes bogged down in a long series of trivalities.
I decided to track this one down after watching a two part presentation on PBS, based on this bestseller. With the addition of David Starkey's narration, the use of live-action actors in period settings, and plenty of glamour shots, I figured the book ...
Pros: Starkey does a great job of defining each wife's personality. Cons: None. Except that it ended. I wanted more!
Preamble Sometimes, I get shocked when people I've known for years all of a sudden are surprised when they learn something very ordinary about me. Just the other day, I was walking out with a friend of mine and I mentioned to her that I was just ...
Pros: A darned good read if you’re interested in this sort of stuff! Cons: Worse than shopping for socks at Wal-Mart if English history is not your bag.
First let me explain why I bought this book in the first place. My wife was browsing through the biography section of “Chapters” (Canadian book chain) and picked up a paperback copy of “Six Wives” which was priced at $24.95 Canadian. I ...
Pros: was a very good read and was packed with information Cons: wasn't divided into sections very well
Overall, this was a really good boo. It was packed with information on Henry VIII and his six wives. I've read both Alison Weir's and Antonia Fraser's biography on them, and I liked both of those a lot. However, out of the three books, I think that this ...
Paperback, Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief How can students with widely varied levels of literary experience learn to write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama -- over the course of...
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