The Friday Five for 3 May 2019
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Is there a particular historical period or event, anywhere in the world, that fascinates you?
I guess since I've read so many books from the era, 1800s England.
Would you like to visit that time, or live in it permanently, or does the whole idea make you want to run screaming?
I'd like to visit, and experience wearing corsets, not bathing much, and all that fun stuff. Also, see what they would do with my hair.
What's the best piece of historical writing, nonfiction or fiction, you've ever read?
Rhett Butler's People. It's a retelling of Gone With the Wind from Rhett's perspective, but starts from when he was a child. All the characters and the history added so much more to the story. I actually listened to it on audiobook, and the narrator was fantastic.
The Marriage Bureau by Penrose Halson, about matchmakers in wartime London, was great.
What's the worst?
These weren't terrible, but could have been better:
The Lilac Girls
The Atomic City Girls
The German Girl
(sheesh, along with Radium Girls, you'd think I was choosing books by titles that have "girl" in it)
Is there a historical site you would love to visit?
I'm going to Italy in about a month, so I get to see a ton of them! I think I'm most excited for Rome and Pompeii.
Is there a particular historical period or event, anywhere in the world, that fascinates you?
I guess since I've read so many books from the era, 1800s England.
Would you like to visit that time, or live in it permanently, or does the whole idea make you want to run screaming?
I'd like to visit, and experience wearing corsets, not bathing much, and all that fun stuff. Also, see what they would do with my hair.
What's the best piece of historical writing, nonfiction or fiction, you've ever read?
Rhett Butler's People. It's a retelling of Gone With the Wind from Rhett's perspective, but starts from when he was a child. All the characters and the history added so much more to the story. I actually listened to it on audiobook, and the narrator was fantastic.
The Marriage Bureau by Penrose Halson, about matchmakers in wartime London, was great.
What's the worst?
These weren't terrible, but could have been better:
The Lilac Girls
The Atomic City Girls
The German Girl
(sheesh, along with Radium Girls, you'd think I was choosing books by titles that have "girl" in it)
Is there a historical site you would love to visit?
I'm going to Italy in about a month, so I get to see a ton of them! I think I'm most excited for Rome and Pompeii.
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Date: 2019-05-04 10:04 pm (UTC)Making fortunes in the navy is a part of all the Austen novels. Aside from that, I don't know much. I do remember being in England, and being entertained by the fact that England and France (and others) basically spent 1500 years invading each other. Or something to that effect. Edinburgh was built on a hill, behind a wall, pretty much for defensive purposes.