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A Gut-Churning Good Time

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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The Parisians Used to Poison Each Other With Menstrual Blood, and Other Weird Facts

January 30, 2018 by Kitkat 2 Comments

Nicolas de la Reynie has the distinction of being Paris’s first police chief, a position he stepped into during the reign of King Louis XIV.  Paris was a nasty cesspool full of criminals at the time, and de la Reynie turned things around by putting lamps up everywhere (which is how Paris came to be known as “the City of Light”). But not everything in Paris could be cured with a well-placed lamp.  During de la Reynie’s tenure, people in Paris were getting poisoned left […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Holly Tucker, King Louis XIV, paris, poison

Post by Kitkat · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Holly Tucker, King Louis XIV, paris, poison ·
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Pick Your Poison!

October 30, 2017 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

Pick Your Poison – A Short Story Anthology edited by Emma Nelson and Hannah Smith (2017) – Just in time for Halloween comes a short story collection with a clever theme: toxins.  Whether venomous snakes, raw almonds, quiet magic, or death by any of the other twenty-five poisonous tales in this collection, there’s a fitting demise for everyone. As with most anthologies I review, I’ll pick out several of the sterling tales that caught my squeamish attention.   But all the stories are clever, well-written, and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Short Stories, Suspense Tagged With: Anthology, Emma Nelson, Hannah Smith, poison

Post by sabian30 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Short Stories, Suspense · Tags: Anthology, Emma Nelson, Hannah Smith, poison ·
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We’ll always be troubled by how things are—that’s how it stands with the difficult gift of consciousness.

June 30, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

By the time this came off the wait-list at the library, I had completely forgotten why my friend had recommended it to me, other than the obvious, which is that I love me some Ian McEwan. And what’s interesting to report now that I’ve read Nutshell is that I may have grown out of my McEwan faze, because this checked a LOT of my boxes but ultimately didn’t blow me out of the water. Which is not to say that this isn’t a beautiful book, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #food, baby, birth, fetus, Hamlet, ian mcewan, in utero, London, mcewan, murder, plotting, poison, wine

Post by borisanne · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #food, baby, birth, fetus, Hamlet, ian mcewan, in utero, London, mcewan, murder, plotting, poison, wine ·
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Politics and Poison, Oh My!

January 4, 2017 by Ale 2 Comments

A big shout-out to Aviva for sending this book my way during book exchange! This was a thoroughly enjoyable read. Francesca Giordano is a woman who needs a job after her father is brutally murdered in the street (don’t worry, you find this out in the first chapter), and she gets herself employed with the very prestigious, inherently corrupt Borgia family. Her employment soon has her on a wild ride through the world of Rome’s political and theological corruption as she follows Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1400s, Borgias, historical fiction, poison, Rome, sara poole, strong female protagonist

Post by Ale · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1400s, Borgias, historical fiction, poison, Rome, sara poole, strong female protagonist ·
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