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morgan--reads · 1 year

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Daughters of the Winter Queen - Nancy Goldstone

Summary: A biography of the Winter Queen—Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of King James I of England and Scotland—and her daughters.

Quote: “These women were not ahead of their time—they were their time.”

My rating: 3.75/5.0 Goodreads: 4.07/5.0

Review: Interesting enough to break me out of my non-fiction reading slump, this chatty biography is poorly structured but full of compelling stories. Many more historical figures than the Winter Queen’s daughters receive attention—including her sons—and the time period is an underrated one, full of religious tension and political scheming, but also discovery and progress. All of the family members have lives worthy of attention and Goldstone is great at highlighting the most interesting periods of those lives. The framing using Mary Queen of Scots is nearly useless and the way the book is sectioned off doesn’t make much sense. However, these flaws are easy to push past, as the personalities of the various historical figures shine through and the intrigue of the time period takes hold.

To read: for a darker, more fantastical take on the time period and the Winter Queen’s life try the novel Tyll.

#daughters of the winter queen #nancy goldstone #book review #history #biography #early modern history #winter queen

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whovian223 · 3 months

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5 Great Books Read in 2023

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#Alexander Watson #Connie Willis #Dan Willis #In the Shadows of the Empress #James S.A. Corey #John Pike #Leviathan Falls #Lincoln&039;s Wizard #Nancy Goldstone #Peter Harmsen #Ring of Steel #Shanghai 1937 #The Georgia Alchemist #The Road to Roswell #The Thirty Years War #Tracy Hickman

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 9 months

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The Amazing Readathon Week Two

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jonathanjudge · 4 months

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#lawrence & nancy goldstone

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winterhalters · 2 months

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historical sisters (1/∞)

— Marguerite, Eleanor, Sanchia and Beatrice of Provence

Four sisters who had risen from near obscurity to become the most celebrated and powerful women of their time. Almost nothing of significance that occurred in Western Europe during the period in which they lived was not influenced by the actions of their family. It is impossible to fully understand the underlying political motivations of the thirteenth century without them. — Nancy Goldstone, Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe

#historyedit #marguerite of provence #eleanor of provence #sanchia of provence #beatrice of provence #13th century #mine #*#*hsisters

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tercessketchfield · 1 year

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♕ — The Four Queens

"In fact, this elite gathering represented the triumph of international diplomacy. <…> The architects of this diplomatic coup were neither ambassadors nor statesmen. No king’s counselor had a hand in it, no great knight nor influential baron. It was managed entirely by one family –a family of four sisters who had risen from near obscurity to become the most celebrated and powerful women of their time. Almost nothing of significance that occurred in Western Europe during the period in which they lived was not influenced by the actions of this family. It is impossible to fully understands the underlying political motivations of the thirteenth century without them."

— Nancy Goldstone, Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe

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malglories · 2 years

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do you have any medieval book recs? 👀 whether fiction or non-fiction? thank you!

of course my love! my apologies for how long it took me to answer this! in no particular order:

a vision of light, judith merkle riley*

the once and future king, t.h. white

in a dark wood wandering, hella s. hasse*

katherine, anya seton*

the half-drowned king, linnea hartsuyker*

the maid and the queen, nancy goldstone (nonfic)

the time traveller’s guide to medieval england, ian mortimer (nonfic)*

here be dragons, sharon kay penman*

the summer queen, elizabeth chadwick~

joan of arc, helen castor (nonfic; good as a political history, not good as an examination of joan)

daughter of the forest, juliet marillier (more fantasy, but still has a medieval flavor)*

shadow on the crown, patricia bracewell~

the wreath, sigrid undset~

hild, nicola griffith

the last hours, minette walters~

doomsday book, connie willis~

faves have asteriks, and ones i’ve partially or haven’t yet read have squigglies! enjoy!

#billets doux #anonymous #book recs

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vivelareine · 2 years

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I heard once that Louis Charles looked like Louis XVI a lot, is that true?

It's difficult to answer particularly with Louis Charles, because out of the three children who have several portraits, Louis Charles looks the most varied. Sometimes his portraits look like entirely different children, and that's just sticking to the "confirmed" portraits and not presumed.

I think he looks the most like Marie Antoinette, broadly. Particularly his older Kucharski portrait. I can't find it, but I did the MyHeritage thing on his Kucharski portrait and I struck by how much he looked like her in motion.

Sometimes in profile, IMO he looks like Madame Elisabeth or Louis XVI's father. Depends on the engraving. But he does have large ears like Louis XVI in most portraits, I've noticed.

But overall it's so hard to say, because of how much his portraits differ at times.

Which is why, tangentially, the "omg Louis Charles looks IDENTICAL to [someone related to Fersen]" stuff peddled by Evelyn Farr & Nancy Goldstone is so flimsy and ridiculous to hold up as any sort of tangible evidence. It's like... which Louis Charles are you talking about, since he looks different in so many images? You can compare two different engravings or portraits of Charles and the kid will look different in each.

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So for instance, even just these three engravings of Louis Charles all have different distinct features, i.e, the nose features and shape of the jaw. Larger version.

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bibliophileiz · 1 year

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Ranking the Books I read in 2022

I feel really good about my bottom two and top four, but some of the middle ones may be more smushed. Also if my Goodreads stars don't always seem to line up with my rankings, it's because I reserve the right to change my mind at any time.

26. The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay. Date reviewed: Jan. 25, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 3 (apparently i averaged it bc i thought the writing was good, though now i can't remember why) 1-sentence review: Every time I read a thriller, I'm like Jason Bateman pulling the bag labelled dead dove out the freezer, looking at it, and going, "I don't know what I expected."

25. Royal Diaries: Isabel: Jewel of Castilla by Carolyn Meyer Date reviewed: Jan. 11, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 3, but 2.5 were for Beatriz de Bombadilla 1-sentence reivew: Isabel is insufferable and I want a biography about Beatriz de Bombadilla.

24. Love, Hate, and Clickbait by Liz Bowery Date reviewed: Nov. 9, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 3 1-sentence review: The characters are terrible but it's still a good way to pass election night.

23. A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske Date reviewed: June 2, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 3 1-sentence review: Main couple great, sex scnes are steamy, plot reasonably creative, but overall moves slowly and most of the side characters are terrible.

22. Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard by Tom Felton Date reviewed: Nov. 8, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 3 1-sentence review: Hollywood is TOXIC and I hope Tom's living his best life in England with his brothers and his dog.

21: The Woman Who Would Be King by Kara Cooney Date reviewed: March 1, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 3 1-sentence review: Hatshepsut was a boss, but Cooney's writing style could be livelier.

20. Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero by Michael Hingson Date reviewed: Sept. 27, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 4 (was probably generous) 1-sentence review: Super interesting memoir that taught me way more about blindness and guide dogs than about 9/11 (which is fine).

19. Husband Material by Alexis Hall Date reviewed: Aug. 16, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 3 1-sentence review: Same hilarity, more emotional maturity, but Luc and Oliver didn't seem happy with each other's friends and somewhat traitorously (because I know this is the exact OPPOSITE of the point of the book) I kind of wish they'd gotten married.

18. Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey Date reviewed: April 20, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 3 1-sentence review: We stan one leading lady. (Dude was ... fine I guess.)

17. Graphic Classics Romeo and Julie by Gareth Hinds Date reviewed: Oct. 25, 2022 Goodread stars I gave it: 4 1-sentence review: Turns out graphic novels are a good way to read Shakespeare plays.

16: Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone Date reviewed: March 15, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 3 1-sentence review: Goldstone's historical writing is great as always, but she should have written about French queen Blanche of Castile instead.

15. Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall Date reviewed: April 25, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 4 1-sentence review: Here's to the book that made me silent-laugh so hard in a restaurant that I had to put my mask back on to keep the other customers from staring at me.

14. If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy Date reviewed: April 22, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 4 1-sentence review: Adored everything except the love interest, who seemed to have misplaced his personality.

13. To Marry and to Meddle by Martha Waters (audio book) Date reviewed: May 5, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 4 1-sentence review: My favorite so far of the Regency Vows series and I didn't even get embarassed listening to an actor read the sex scenes aloud. (admittedly i was alone in my car, but still)

12. Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake Date reviewed: June 21, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 4 1-sentence review: A lovely little w/w romance with great supporting characters and a fantastic sister-subplot that was arguably as engaging as the love story.

11. Lore Olympus Volume 1 by Rachel Smythe Date reviewed: Jan. 24, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 3 1-sentence review: Greek mythology and breathtaking artwork -- what's not to love?

10. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Date reviewed: Aug. 10, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 4 1-sentence reivew: If you're like me and you love dark, eerie fairy tales, then this is the book for you.

9. The Bodyguard by Katherine Center Date reviewed: July 27, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 3 1-sentence reivew: I liked Wilbur and corgi-breeding stalker better than I liked Robby, which I think is what God and Katherine Center intended.

8. I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston Date reviewed: Sept. 16, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 4 1-sentence review: What starts out as a seeming scathing take-down of certain John Green novels with shades of gay Mean Girls thrown in turns into something completely unexpected and wonderful and warm and welcoming.

7. Royal Diaries: Cleopatra: Daughter of the Nile by Kristiana Gregory Date reviewed: Jan. 19, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 4 1-sentence review: Yes, I am being indulgent ranking this so high, but she has a pet leopard and insults Roman officials in their own language.

6. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell Date reviewed: Sept. 23, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 4 1-sentence review: A thoughtful and engaging take on how language shapes cultures within communities, with sometimes insidious intent.

5. Book Lovers by Emily Henry Date reviewed: July 23, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 4 1-sentence review: Hallmark villains in love with NYC to the point of delusion make the best protagonists.

4. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna Date reviewed: Sept. 23, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 4 1-sentence review: Reading this is like walking into a sunlit room on a Sunday morning. (Note: I actually switched this to rank above Book Lovers, which is a VERY big deal for me because I love Emily Henry.)

3. Signal Moon by Kate Quinn Date reviewed: Aug. 20, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 4 1-sentence review: Combining World War II AND time travel (sort of) is like hitting all my tragic romance buttons at once.

2. The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn Date reviewed: June 16, 2022 (I don't think GR has this right -- I got an advanced copy and reviewed it not long after reading it. I posted a review on Facebook on Feb. 28, 2022) Goodreads stars I gave it: 5 1-sentence review: Amazing writing, a bombshell of a heroine, and a story that makes me see, smell and hear the Eastern front -- I'm not kidding when I say this is Quinn's best book so far. (Note: I wrote that line when I hadn't read No. 1 on the list yet.)

and finally....

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn Date reviewed: July 4, 2022 Goodreads stars I gave it: 5 Entire review because I have no self-control:

Earlier this year, I said I thought The Diamond Eye may be Kate Quinn's best book. I am revising my opinion. THIS may be Kate Quinn's best book. I read it in one day, basically didn't put it down except to do work. I think the last time I did something like that, I was reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the day it came out. And I was 13.

The Rose Code has all the usual Kate Quinn Hallmarks -- great heroines, wartime stakes, swoonworthy love interests, engaging side characters, and cameos from real life historical figures (in this case folks like Alan Turing and Winston Churchill, plus a snide reference about Ian Fleming's womanizing) -- while also having a tighter story (unlike in, say, The Huntress, Quinn isn't having to juggle multiple flashbacks in this book) and what I felt was a slightly less over-the-top climax though ... it was still pretty over-the-top. I think by the time I got to it I was just in a jubilant state.

Anyway, just read this book.

Also, for a spoiler that will make you happy (but is a spoiler nonetheless) ... yes, Beth reunites with the dog.

#iz blogs about books #kate quinn #the very secret society of irregular witches #book lovers #the diamond eye #the rose code #signal moon #sangu mandanna #emily henry #i'm only tagging the top 5 books and their authors to keep these tags from being out of control #those are the ones you need to read anyway #although all but the bottom two are at least servicable #2022 was a pretty good year for books i thought

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queenaryastark · 2 years

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Catherine de Medici:

-- The Rival Queens by Nancy Goldstone

Cersei Lannister:

Six-and-ten for him, and three for you. Gold shall be their crowns and gold their shrouds, she said. -- Maggy the Frog, Cersei VIII, AFFC

#cersei lannister #catherine de medici #asoiaf

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 years

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Republican politicians are preparing a media onslaught to deflect, discredit and delegitimise Thursday’s opening hearing of the House of Representatives panel investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.

While major TV networks broadcast the first session live in prime time, Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News will stick with its usual show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, which has long pushed Donald Trump’s talking points.

Trump loyalists are expected to flood the airwaves with claims that the January 6 Select Committee lacks credibility and Democrats are out of touch with more pressing concerns such as inflation, crime, border security and baby formula shortages.

Elise Stefanik, chair of the House Republican Conference, told reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday: “They are scrambling to change the headlines, praying that the nation will focus on their partisan witch-hunt instead of our pocketbooks. It will not work.”

In what amounted to an attempt at a prebuttal, Stefanik described the January 6 Committee as “unconstitutional” and “illegitimate” and designed to “punish” the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s opponents. She criticised its decision to hire James Goldston, the former president of ABC News, to help make its presentation compelling.

“This further solidifies what we have known from day one: this committee is not about seeking the truth - it’s a smear campaign against President Donald Trump, against Republican members of Congress, and against Trump voters across this country.”

The comments set the template for Republican counter-programming on conservative media such as Fox News, Newsmax, the One America News Network, Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast and other outlets that will seek to portray the hearings as a sinister show trial in which Trump supporters are the victims.

Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, wrote on the Federalist website: “The committee’s real goal, and what it hopes to achieve with its unprecedented subpoenas and its bright-light hearings, is a repudiation of conservatism and all those who hold conservative values.”

For their part, Democrats hope that the hearings will cut through a crowded news agenda much more successfully than the former special counsel Robert Mueller’s turgid testimony about Trump’s ties to Russia. After an investigation entailing more than 100 subpoenas, 1,000 interviews and 100,000 documents, they are likely to characterise the riot as not a spontaneous gathering but part of a broader conspiracy.

Congressman Jamie Raskin, a Democrat on the committee, promised in April: “The hearings will tell a story that will really blow the roof off the House. Because it is a story of the most heinous and dastardly political offence ever organised by a president and his followers and his entourage in the history of the United States.”

Trump, whose “big lie” falsely claims that he won the 2020 election, was impeached by the House for his role in encouraging the assault on democracy. Dozens of the insurrectionists have been brought to justice, many having been convicted or pleading guilty to serious crimes.

But Republicans, who previously rejected an independent September 11-style bipartisan commission, have sought to downplay the attack and deny the legitimacy of the committee, alleging that it is driven by political motivations to abolish the electoral college and prevent Trump’s re-election.

They complain that Jordan of Ohio and his colleague Jim Banks of Indiana were barred from taking part by Pelosi. Democrats say the pair were disqualified because they backed Trump’s efforts to overturn the election and sought to block any investigation.

Banks said at a press conference on Wednesday: “Speaker Pelosi blocked us because she’s afraid of what a real investigation would uncover.”

Along with seven Democrats, the Committee does have two Republicans but both are staunch Trump critics: Liz Cheney of Wyoming, daughter of the former Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who is not seeking re-election. Both were censured by the Republican party in February.

Kinzinger responded to Fox News’ lack of planned coverage by tweeting: “If you work for @FoxNews and want to maintain your credibility as a journalist, now is a good time to speak out, or quit. Enough is enough.”

News coverage of the hearings will be relegated from Fox News to its sister channel, Fox Business Network, which has much lower ratings. Carlson, who will go head to head with the hearing at 8pm on Thursday, has claimed the insurrection “barely rates as a footnote” and described the committee as “wholly illegitimate”.

Tara Setmayer, a former Republican communications director on Capitol Hill turned Trump critic, said: “The Republican party and rightwing media is no longer interested in telling the truth, which is why they’re avoiding showing the hearings. Democrats need to consistently hammer home to the American people the importance of what they’re doing and let the facts speak for themselves and not be distracted by the kabuki theatre that Republicans will try to put on to distract from the truth."

Setmayer added: “The truth is s so damning for the Republican party and they know it. We’re hearing about everything else because they know they can’t stand on the merits of the other side. That’s why we’re hearing about caravans and crime and all of the hot-button cultural issues that fuel the Republican party and get their people riled up instead of the truth of January 6. They can’t handle it.”

Having sought to downplay the deadly insurrection for 17 months, Republicans know the sheer magnitude of Thursday night’s media coverage – aspiring to that of the Watergate hearings that dominated the national conversation in the 1970s – will make it difficult to ignore. It is possible that Trump himself will be stung into speaking out and denouncing the proceedings.

Charlie Sykes, founder and editor-at-large of the Bulwark website and author of How the Right Lost Its Mind, said: “There’s going to be a full-court press to delegitimise the hearings, to throw up as much smoke and dust as possible, which is interesting to me. The conventional wisdom is that these hearings are not likely to move a lot of votes or change the midterm elections but Donald Trump and the Republicans are certainly acting as if they pose a threat. Otherwise, why would they be mobilising like this? Obviously they see the hearings as somewhat dangerous. From Trump’s point of view, what he is most concerned about is the fact that it’s going to be on primetime television. He’s a television guy and he understands the power of this and I’m guessing the fact that they’ve hired a guy who’s a documentary maker really got his attention down at Mar-a-Lago."

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 9 months

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The Amazing Readathon Week One

The Amazing Readathon is a readathon created by Brianna from Four Paws and a Book and co-hosted by many others in the BookTube and Bookstagram community. This one is based on the reality TV show The Amazing Race and it’s about spending the month of August travelling the world. There are prompts and ways you can get bonus points (team colour, BIPOC author, etc), but there is some mood reading…

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#Amanda Jayatissa #Anthony Doerr #Biography #Books #England #English History #France #Germany #Historical Fiction #History #Jennifer Ryan #Kate Moore #Multi-POV #Nancy Goldstone #Sarah Waters #Women&039;s History #Women&039;s Rights

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ladysophy · 2 years

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As I’m reading through the latest biography on Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts, I’m already picking up errors from Nancy Goldstone’s Daughters of the Winter Queen (when I think back about it). A reviewer from Goodreads pointed out that Goldstone relied on the Victorian historian and writer Agnes Strickland too much and I agree. Strickland had a Victorian bias view on the Tudors and Stuarts, so she’s not very reliable for a source.

There have been many justifiable complaints about Goldstone being historically inaccurate in all of her published books concerning historical royal women and her allegedly too know it all at best and plain arrogant at worst personality. So my rating for Daughters of the Winter Queen is now 3 stars out of 5.

#thoughts #17th century

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rainbow-femme · 3 months

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BOOK RECS PLS?

Hmm it’s hard to say without knowing your tastes but here are some of my favorites in no particular order

-The Foxhole Court series

-The Captive Prince series

-Tournament of Losers (Megan Derr has a lot I like but this is my favorite and a good starting point)

-The Errant Prince

-The Martian

-The Romanov Empress

-The Carry On series

-His Dark Materials/Golden Compass series

If you like graphic novels then Lucy Knisley has ones I love about just different parts of her life that are relatable and funny

I also love historical non fiction and I very much enjoy anything I’ve found by Nancy Goldstone, Carolly Erickson, and Dan Jones

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picturesisyphushappy · 1 year

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The Maid and the Queen - Nancy Goldstone

#currently 📖#joan of arc #yolande of aragon

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smithlibrary · 1 year

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