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Jennie’s Reading List for March and April

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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman I’ve been on a pop history kick after the two Jennifer Wright books I recently read, so I picked up this book. It was only after I bought it that I realized ... more >

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Reading List by Jennie for December through February

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Read and reviewed: Game On, Ruth, Midsummer Moon   The Lover’s Knot by Erin Satie This was reviewed by Jane back in 2014. I agree with her point about the nature of the heroine’s memory issue being fuzzy – it actually took me a while to understand that Sophie even had an ... more >

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Reading List by Jennie for April through June

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Also read and reviewed:  Ocean Light and Cadaver & Queen An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew by Annejet Van Der Zijl I can’t remember if this was recommended somewhere or if I just found it while perusing historical biographies on Amazon, but I know I was initially intrigued by ... more >

Reading List by Jennie for July Through September, Part 2

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As I noted in Part 1, I split this into two posts because I wrote longer-than-usual mini-reviews.   City of Thieves by David Benioff I picked this up from an Amazon deal somewhere, intrigued by the subject matter (the Siege of Leningrad has fascinated me since I read Paullina Simons’ ... more >

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Reading List by Jennie for April through June

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I also read and reviewed: A Lady’s Code of Misconduct, Silver Silence, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Pipe Dreams  and Thick As Thieves And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie I got this a little while ago when there were a bunch of Agatha Christie books on sale; several people ... more >

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Reading List by Jennie for January through March

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NOTE: Also read and reviewed Rebecca and Wait for It.   A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn After reading the first book in Raybourn’s Lady Julia Grey mystery series, I saw that the author had another series, the first two books of which were available on NetGalley. Even though I ... more >

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