Hello Online Reading Challenge Readers!
We’ve come to the end of the first month of the 2018 Online Reading Challenge already. Did you enjoy reading something set during the Tudor/Renaissance era? Did you find something especially wonderful? Let us know in the comments!
There seems to be an endless supply of books about the Tudors and the tangled political plots in pursuit of the throne (and a male heir). But there was plenty of other interesting things going on during this time period – did anyone find something set in Renaissance Europe, or Asia or Africa? It would be fascinating to compare!
Hang onto your library card, we’re about to leap several centuries forward in time to the 20th century and the pivotal and tumultuous 1950s and 60s! Still lots of political intrigue but now with indoor plumbing!
I read “Apricots and Wolfbane” which was a fascinatingly strange book about a female assasin set in the Renaissance time period. She used poison to kill her marks and apparently this was a real thing and the book is based on a real person. Who knew?
That sounds fascinating! Thanks for letting us know what you read and thanks for reading along! Ann