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"The names of King John and Magna Carta are inextricably linked in history and the story of the thirteenth century."
Definitely an understatement!
Happy Reading!
Sarah
Nice. You always seem to find these nice historical reads!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy this author, also. She's written another called Heroines of the Medieval World which features my homegirl Eleanor of Aquitaine!
DeleteThis sounds like a very informative, powerful read! Happy Friday!!
ReplyDeleteIt's great so far, I am really enjoying it!
DeleteGood into. A shift into history might be a good choice after the last couple of duds that you've read.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely. History is my go-to, especially when it is an author whose work I have already read!
DeleteNeat that its the ladies' side of history during that time.
ReplyDeleteI like it. She has another book called Heroines of Medieval World that is really good.
DeleteHappy Friday! My first line is from "Collateral Damage" by Lynnette Eason:
ReplyDelete"Sergeant First Class Asher James stared at Captain Phillip Newell, sure that he'd heard wrong."
Thanks for sharing your line!
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ReplyDelete"1803. The day the child walked in from the marsh was one of deadening cold. A north wind had blown steadily all day, making ears and chests and bones ache; the child's bare feet cracked through a crust of ice on the watery ground. She came slowly towards the farmhouse from the west, with the swollen river sliding silently beside her and the sun hanging low over her shoulder, baleful and milky as a blind eye."
The Misbegotten by Katherine Webb
How terribly sad, and with bare feet. Poor babe.
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ReplyDeletesherry @ fundinmental
Thanks for stopping by!
DeleteWhen Polonius instructs his man Reynaldo how best to find out what kind of life his son is leading in Paris, he suggests various circuitous ways of extracting information from Laertes' friends, such as hinting that he games or drinks, and noting how they receive such hints, and so by the judicious use of these indirect methods to draw forth the truth.
ReplyDeleteCaroline Spurgeon: Shakespeare's Imagery
I've added this one to my TBR. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
DeleteAwesome! I love your blog name! In my blog I shared a line from The Captured Bride by Michelle Griep
ReplyDelete"It ain't right, You ain't right"
Have an awesome weekend!
https://www.musingsofasassybookishmama.com/
Thank you! It came about because as I was setting up my blog, all the cute and witty and memorable names were in use that I came up with, so in frustration I literally said, "UGH! All the book blog names are taken!" and thus, here we are! Thanks for sharing your line!
DeleteHappy Friday! Today I'm sharing the first line from Smoke Screen by Terri Blackstock: "He left me for a size-two selfie star and didn't want me to make a scene."
ReplyDeletehttps://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2020/04/first-line-fridays-smoke-screen-by.html
Thanks for sharing your line!
DeleteInteresting title -- I'm assuming from the subtitle that "Magna Carta" is just to set the timeframe?
ReplyDeleteThere is a good bit of backstory on John and Magna Carta, but yes it frames how the women lived their lives within that time, and also how Magna Carta, when applicable, impacted them. It's great so far. She's written another book, called Heroines of the Medieval World that I really like.
DeleteHappy Friday!
ReplyDeleteOn my blog I'm sharing from Being Known by Robin Jones Gunn. It's such an EXCELLENT story. Currently, I'm reading Hadley Beckett's Next Dish by Bethany Turner. I'm just getting into chapter 2 so I'll share a line from there.
"Meemaw? Are you home?"
Hope you have a great weekend. Happy reading! 🙂
Thanks for sharing your line!
DeleteI was lucky enough to see one of the original Magna Cartas in Lincoln when we visited in 2015. For a document that came to be so important, it's actually very plain and small!
ReplyDeleteI am so jealous! When Mom and I were in the UK in 2009 we had a day trip scheduled for Stonehenge, Bath, and Salisbury Cathedral. The morning of the tour, we arrive at the shop to find that Salisbury is temporarily closed, so we will be going to Windsor instead. Perfect! I thought, I can give Henry a piece of my mind at St George's. BUT NO! The queen was KNIGHTING PEOPLE THAT DAY. Seriously. All I wanted was to see this little piece of parchment, that was relatively useless almost immediately but so romanticized, and instead I get stuck at Windsor where I can't go yell at Henry!
DeleteFrom Akin by Emma Donoghue: "An old man packing his bags."
ReplyDeleteThat's the whole sentence?! That fragment?
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