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[got me] to a nunnery!

Matrix by Lauren Groff

Heloise & Abelard: A New Biography by James Burge

The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici by Elizabeth Lev

Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love by Myriam Cyr

July 5, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

I thought I was going to need some time to recover from the exquisite The Everlasting, but really it flung me head-first into a literal rabbit-hole. A warren. An abbey. A nunnery, if you will. Also- The Atlantic just posted a list of books that were done dirty by pandemic releases, and OF COURE The Everlasting resides within those vaulted halls. I was immediately drawn to Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici after she was mentioned several times in The Everlasting. A distant relative of her spots her likeness in the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Religion Tagged With: 12th century, 15th century, 16th century, 17th Century, andtheIToldYouSos, borgia, Catholicism, cloistered life, Crusades, Dark Ages, eleanor of aquitaine, Elizabeth Lev, England, forbidden love, France, heloise and abelard, hisotry, historical fiction, Italy, James Burge, lauren groff, Love, love letters, Marie de France, medeival europe, Medici, Middle Ages, miramax, monks, my library. audio. ;etters, Myriam Cyr, mysticism, nuns, paris, Philosophy, Portugal, Religion, Renaissance, renaissance europe, Rome, viragoes

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:36 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: 12th century, 15th century, 16th century, 17th Century, andtheIToldYouSos, borgia, Catholicism, cloistered life, Crusades, Dark Ages, eleanor of aquitaine, Elizabeth Lev, England, forbidden love, France, heloise and abelard, hisotry, historical fiction, Italy, James Burge, lauren groff, Love, love letters, Marie de France, medeival europe, Medici, Middle Ages, miramax, monks, my library. audio. ;etters, Myriam Cyr, mysticism, nuns, paris, Philosophy, Portugal, Religion, Renaissance, renaissance europe, Rome, viragoes ·
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In the 17th century, birds were appreciated for their beauty, and also their tastiness

Pasta for Nightingales: A 17th-Century Handbook of Bird-Care and Folklore by Giovanni Pietro Olina

March 6, 2021 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

The common hoopoe gets drunk on fermented grapes; goldfinches suffer from epilepsy; to properly keep francolins, you must keep a small crate or case within the aviary for the birds to nestle down in. These are just a few of the handy tips that Giovani Pietro Olina offers in his 17th-century handbook on bird care, Pasta for Nightingales. This charming little tome is an English translation of a book written in 1622, called Uccelliera, which is Italian for The Aviary. The title of the English […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: 17th Century, art, bird care, CBR13, folklore, Giovanni Pietro Olina, KimMiE", ornithology

KimMiE"'s CBR13 Review No:10 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: 17th Century, art, bird care, CBR13, folklore, Giovanni Pietro Olina, KimMiE", ornithology ·
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Libris Mediocris

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

April 8, 2020 by kimberleybear 5 Comments

*Sigh.* Folks. Before we get into this, the customary preamble. These things may seem unrelated at first, but hopefully they’ll make sense shortly enough. There’s a tossed-off line in Stella Gibbons’ excellent Cold Comfort Farm (the movie is also a scream if you haven’t seen it) where one of the characters, an irritating self-satisfied clod of a fellow, is working on a thesis which holds that all of the Brontes’ novels were actually written by their brother Branwell. The little-known film Titanic came out the winter after […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 17th Century, bubonic plague, England, Geraldine Brooks, historical fiction

kimberleybear's CBR12 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 17th Century, bubonic plague, England, Geraldine Brooks, historical fiction ·
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A historical romance with Highlanders and the Gunpowder plot. Yup, that one.

November 17, 2014 by Malin 7 Comments

It will come as no surprise to anyone who actually bothers to read my blog, or check out my Cannonball progress, that I read a LOT. So much so that, fingers crossed, while I severely doubt I will be able to complete the triple Cannonball this year (it nearly killed all my joy of reading last year), if I actually manage to complete my current backlog of reviews and keep going, I will at least have completed more than two and a half the requirement, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: #CBR6, 17th Century, Bad Boys of the Highlands, Highland Romance, historical romance, Malin, Victoria Roberts

Malin's CBR6 Review No:116 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: #CBR6, 17th Century, Bad Boys of the Highlands, Highland Romance, historical romance, Malin, Victoria Roberts ·
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  • Merryn on Trigger warning. Also, spoilers.Persuasion is my favourite. The most recent adaptation is not very accurate in tone or characterisation, and I wouldn't recommend to a new Austen reader....
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