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| Tue, 06-28-2005 - 7:09am |
let's talk aboout biographies today. What have been some of your favorites and are there any in your TBR pile right now?
I just picked up Brooke Shields' "Down Came the Rain" and am looking forward to it


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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is one of my favorite books. Extremely powerful. What I like about Yellin's biography of Harriet Jacobs is that she is able to fill in the rest of the story. It took years of research. The first part of her book is a great mini-detective story as she tells how she tracked down the real Harriet Jacobs.
I thought I saw somewhere that there is a new dual biography of Elizabeth and Mary. Have you read that?
TK
MissTK
Oooh, I HAVE actually read that, if it's the one I'm thinking of:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375408983/qid=1120679983/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_ur_2/103-4921877-9028624?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
It was pretty good--it was a different perspective on them both, and since I haven't read a Mary Queen of Scots biography specifically, only via Elizabeth I biographies, it was fascinating learning about her. A lot of her letters did survive.
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