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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman

February 24, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 6 Comments

What a ride! Big thanks to badkittyuno for putting this gem on my radar. Or, in the parlance of this book, allowing me to seek of the poisons of this tome via unicorn horn. We, as humans, have done some pretty vile things to ourselves and others since…pretty much the dawn of time. The Royal Art of Poison illustrates-in graphic detail- the poisonous things that people (mostly royalty, but the common man is capable of critical nastiness as well) have been doing intentionally and accidentally to […]

Filed Under: Health, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, assasination, autopsy, crime, disease, Eleanor Herman, health, jacobian england, medicine, Middle Ages, murder, non fiction, poison, putin's russia, Renaissance, superstition

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:20 · Genres: Health, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, assasination, autopsy, crime, disease, Eleanor Herman, health, jacobian england, medicine, Middle Ages, murder, non fiction, poison, putin's russia, Renaissance, superstition ·
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Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren’t choices at all.

April 8, 2016 by TylerDFC Leave a Comment

Few writers can gut punch readers with an ending the way Stephen King can. Written in the first person, 11/22/63 is ominous from the start. But why it is so ominous takes over 850 pages to understand. For all his flaws with endings, the final lines are usually cutting. Take another story told in first person, The Green Mile. It’s only at the end, the very end, that the true cost of the story is revealed with that haunting final line “We each owe a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: 11/22/63, assasination, CBR8, horror, jake epping, john f kennedy, lee harvey oswald, sadie dunhill, Stephen King, Suspense, TylerDFC

TylerDFC's CBR8 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: 11/22/63, assasination, CBR8, horror, jake epping, john f kennedy, lee harvey oswald, sadie dunhill, Stephen King, Suspense, TylerDFC ·
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