Top 5 Tuesday was created by Shanah at Bionic Book Worm, and now being hosted by Meeghan reads.
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I hope everyone is having a good week so far.
This weeks topic has left me struggling to choose just five books. It turns out a lot of my favourite books are just one word titles. Anyway, here are the ones I chose.
What one word book titles are your favourites?
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Goodreads Monday is now hosted by Budget Tales Book Club. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
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I hope everyone has had a good start to the week.
My chosen book to feature is one that I will hopefully read this month. It is also one that I have been really excited to read.
The middle ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings: a patriarchal society which oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little deeper into the truth, we can see that the ‘dark’ ages were anything but.
Oxford and BBC historian Janina Ramirez has uncovered countless influential women’s names struck out of historical records, with the word FEMINA annotated beside them. As gatekeepers of the past ordered books to be burnt, artworks to be destroyed, and new versions of myths, legends and historical documents to be produced, our view of history has been manipulated.
Only now, through a careful examination of the artefacts, writings and possessions they left behind, are the influential and multifaceted lives of women emerging. Femina goes beyond the official records to uncover the true impact of women like Jadwiga, the only female King in Europe, Margery Kempe, who exploited her image and story to ensure her notoriety, and the Loftus Princess, whose existence gives us clues about the beginnings of Christianity in England. See the medieval world with fresh eyes and discover why these remarkable women were removed from our collective memories.
Please drop me a comment if you have taken part in Goodreads Monday and I will head over for a visit.
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I hope everyone has had a nice weekend so far.
Posts this Week
Currently Reading
I am throughly enjoying this and I am only put out that I have work tomorrow so I won’t be able to read as much as I would like.
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I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. I have spent a lovely day reading A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon.
My TBR pile for February went rather well. I managed to read two books and a half off the list. Sadly I didn’t read my Persephone book or finish Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
Nonfiction Read
I bought this book last year and to be honest I forgot about it but yesterday I remembered it again and decided it should be this months nonfiction read.
Ancient Greek or Roman Text
I will hopefully finish Meditations this month and then start The Greek Plays. I have already read some of the plays but it will be good to reread them again.
Persephone Book
I really hope to read this this month as I never managed it last month.
Classics Club List
I’ve read this book so many times but I really want to read it again and it is one of the books on my Classics Club list.
So those are my planned reads for this month whatever time I have left in the month I will devote to my mood reads.
I hope you have some good books planned for March.
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Happy Friday!
I hope everyone has some fab plans for the weekend.
My chosen poem this week is one that my students sing and play regularly as it is a great beginner piece.
Lavender's Blue Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green, When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen; Call up your men, dilly dilly, set them to work, Some to the plough, dilly dilly, some to the cart; Some to make hay, dilly dilly, some to thresh corn, Whilst you and I, dilly dilly, keep ourselves warm. Anon
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It is time for another update of Reading My Height in Books. I tried to get Lyra to join in with the photo this time but as soon as she saw the pile of books she became suspicious and ran away.
The book pile now contains 12 books and is exactly 11.5 inches high. This leaves me with 55.5 inches to go.
This time in 2021 I was at 8.5 inches high so I am ahead. Hopefully I can keep ahead of 2021 and finally manage to read my height in books.
Look at that pile grow!
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My chosen quote this week is by one of my favourite authors Neil Gaiman.
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
Neil Gaiman
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WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words.
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
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I hope everyone has had a good start to March. I’ve had a busy day teaching but I managed some reading during my lunch break which was lovely.
What I am Currently Reading
I’ve made a big push with The Count of Monte Cristo this week. I am still really enjoying the book but it is quite a slow read. I started Diddly Squat yesterday and have nearly finished it. It is a really easy read and very funny.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
This was a reread for me and I absolutely flew through it. I am absolutely loving being back into the world of Dr Galloway.
What I Think I will Read Next
So many books to read and I have quite a few lined up for March. Hopefully, I manage to get a good number read this month.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I have managed to read another six books this month so I am doing well with my reading so far.
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12/80 Goodreads Challenge
I hope everyone has had a good reading month this February.
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Goodreads Monday is now hosted by Budget Tales Book Club. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
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I hope everyone has had a good Monday and start to the week.
My chosen book for my Goodreads Monday is one that has been on my TBR for quite a while but one I hope to read this year as part of my nonfiction challenge.
Jerusalem 1119. A small group of knights seeking a purpose in the violent aftermath of the First Crusade decides to set up a new order. These are the first Knights Templar, a band of elite warriors prepared to give their lives to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. Over the next two hundred years, the Templars would become the most powerful religious order of the medieval world. Their legend has inspired fervent speculation ever since.
In this groundbreaking narrative history, Dan Jones tells the true story of the Templars for the first time in a generation, drawing on extensive original sources to build a gripping account of these Christian holy warriors whose heroism and alleged depravity have been shrouded in myth. The Templars were protected by the pope and sworn to strict vows of celibacy. They fought the forces of Islam in hand-to-hand combat on the sun-baked hills where Jesus lived and died, finding their nemesis in Saladin, who vowed to drive all Christians from the lands of Islam. Experts at channeling money across borders, they established the medieval world’s largest and most innovative banking network and waged private wars against anyone who threatened their interests.
Then, as they faced setbacks at the hands of the ruthless Mamluk sultan Baybars and were forced to retreat to their stronghold in Cyprus, a vindictive and cash-strapped King of France set his sights on their fortune. His administrators quietly mounted a damning case against the Templars, built on deliberate lies and false testimony. Then on Friday October 13, 1307, hundreds of brothers were arrested, imprisoned and tortured, and the order was disbanded amid lurid accusations of sexual misconduct and heresy. They were tried by the Pope in secret proceedings and their last master was brutally tortured and burned at the stake. But were they heretics or victims of a ruthlessly repressive state? Dan Jones goes back to the sources to bring their dramatic tale, so relevant to our own times, in a book that is at once authoritative and compulsively readable.
Please drop me a comment if you have taken part in Goodreads Monday and I will head over for a visit.
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