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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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The one and only time it might be ok to use first person present tense narration

Lent by Jo Walton

June 21, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I was hesitant to pick this up because it’s written in first person, present tense; I’m not much of a fan of either of those. It didn’t surprise me that I was having a hard time getting into the story. I don’t know what happened, but when I picked it up again the next day, I couldn’t put it down. Jo Walton might be a bit of a miracle worker for that. Lent is basically a fictionalized version of 1492-1498 Florence, Italy. The city was […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, History, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Girolamo Savanarola, jo walton, Lent, Medici, Pico della Mirandola, Renaissance Italy, Speculative Fiction

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:43 · Genres: Fantasy, History, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Girolamo Savanarola, jo walton, Lent, Medici, Pico della Mirandola, Renaissance Italy, Speculative Fiction ·
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