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SusannaG

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.

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Read (1095) Planning to read (109) Currently reading (26) abandoned (5) back at library (11) looked into, decided against (13) possible gift (11) wishlist (6) wishlist - library (42)
Favorite (21) Wishlist (73) Reviewed (214)
17th century American history (13) 18th century American history (22) 1920s and 1930s (119) 19th century American history (53) 20th century American history (31) alternate history (30) American history (90) ancient Egypt (11) ancient Greece (29) ancient near east (5) ancient Rome (65) anthropology (13) archaeology (11) art history (14) astronomy (2) biography (92) books with a passport (1) British history (120) children's literature (37) Civil War (12) classic English lit (63) contemporary fiction (4) cultural history (5) dragons (4) economic history (3) Edwardian (25) English Civil War (8) epistolary (4) espionage (1) ethics (1) exploration (9) fantasy (88) food (4) French history (22) French literature (7) gblt (1) German history (11) Greek literature (1) historical fiction (338) historical mystery (201) historical romance (60) history (341) history of science (32) humor (34) knitting (5) lima beans (1) linguistics (1) literary fiction (3) magical realism (2) Medieval history (42) memoir (13) movies (2) music (1) mystery (384) native americans (1) non-fiction (19) pirates (2) plays (52) poetry (3) read as a child (2) Regency (46) religion (2) Renaissance (8) Restoration (4) romance (57) Russian history (7) Russian literature (1) science (50) science fiction (43) Shakespeare (20) short stories (23) social history (43) spooky (2) sports (5) steampunk (2) Stuart (1) the Enlightenment (24) the movies (1) the South (13) true crime (5) Tudor (58) unreliable narrator (1) unusual narrator (6) vampires (4) Victorian (60) weird (17) werewolves (4) wishlist - library has (0) witches (1) World War 2 (18) World War I (38)
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Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth - Holger Hoock
The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World - Greg Woolf
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years - John Guy
The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Alison Weir
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance - Jim Al-Khalili
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire - Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 - Adam Hochschild
Rebel Heart: The Scandalous Life of Jane Digby - Mary S. Lovell
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art - Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo
The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-taker and Jack Sheppard, House-breaker - Lucy Moore
The Plantagenet Chronicles - Elizabeth Hallam
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin - Susan Nagel
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History - John M. Barry
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 - Robert Middlekauff
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives Of Katherine Of Aragon And Juana, Queen Of Castile - Julia Fox
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford
Bedlam: London and its Mad - Catharine Arnold
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940 - James MacGregor Burns
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