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SusannaG - Confessions of a Crazy Cat Lady

Just another GR refugee. Other than that, I had a stroke in 2004, and read almost anything I can get my hands on, though I have a particular weakness for history, mystery, and historical fiction.

1384 BOOKS

Currently reading

Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition

Paul Watson

Progress: 6 %

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

Progress: 40 %

Wizard's First Rule

Terry Goodkind

Progress: 49 %

Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

Tracy Borman

Progress: 14 %

Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life

Helen Czerski

Progress: 20 %

The Hanover Square Affair

Ashley Gardner

Progress: 10 %

Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

Beth Archer Brombert, Massimo Montanari

Progress: 10 %

Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth

Holger Hoock

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Progress: 9 %

Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years

John Guy

Progress: 20/512 pages

Favorite books

Recently added

Where There's a Will - Rex Stout, Dean Koontz

Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars - John Gaudet

Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World - Jill Jonnes

In Honor of Bastille Day

3:55 pm 14 July 2015

Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends - Mary McAuliffe

Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through the Great War - Mary McAuliffe

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century - Barbara W. Tuchman

The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism - Ross King

The Count of Monte Cristo (Wordsworth Classics) - Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King - Antonia Fraser

Eiffel's Tower: The Thrilling Story Behind Paris's Beloved Monument and theExtraordinary World's Fair That Introduced It - Jill Jonnes

Paris to the Moon - Adam Gopnik

The Iron King - Maurice Druon

My Life in France - Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme

In honor of Bastille Day, a few of my favorite books about France, or with a French setting.

Historical fiction History French History

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