I'm a historical fiction nut. You may say I'm crazy for crusaders. Frenzied for pharoahs. Wiggy for warriors, lol!
My tea, and a good read awaits.
So when I went to the library yesterday I stumbled upon this while looking for Lahiri and Aslam (who aren't by the way, historical fiction authors per se but regardless) in the fiction section....(after a busy morning saving little frogs no bigger than my thumbnail from certain destruction on a main road with my girls, and several bike rides to train us for a long ride along the Waterfront Trail to Niagara Falls....but that's another story...)
I opened up the book I found and read the first paragraph...
Granada 1491
There was a scream, and then the loud roar of fire enveloping silken hangings, then a mounting crescendo of shouts of panic that spread and spread from one tent to another as the flames ran too, leaping from one silk standard to another, running up guy ropes and bursting through muslin doors. Then the horses were neighing in terror and men shouting to calm them, but the terror in their own voices made it worse, until the whole plain was alight with a thousand raging blazes, and the night swirled with smoke and rang with shouts and screams.
From; The Constant Princess by Phillipa Gregory
Well that prompted me to want to read more! How exciting! I love suspense, and right now, I love to be entertained. Regardless of my knowledge already of how things inevitably turn out for Katherine of Aragon. Who wouldn't want to read a breathtaking and unguarded account of how a person from our histories may or may not have felt during the course of her exciting life. I can't wait to see how this one ends. Well I know how it ends but, you know what I mean! ;)
Did you know?? Catherine of Braganza (a Portuguese Infanta who married Charles I) brought HIGH TEA to England as well as the use of the fork. No kidding. :) {Naturally I joked with Julian last night that he could thank my people for bringing him civility...lol!!!)xo
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