Book Ladies

Lately, I've been on a historical women reading frenzy.  It started with Michelle Moran's Egypt trilogy (highly recommended) and moved on to the French Revolution and the USA in the 50's, 60's and 70's.  

If you're looking for a new read, here's what I've finished recently and really liked.

Found this at the dollar store.  Elizabeth Taylor fascinates me and I found some parts of her life helpful to me.  Finished this in a week.

This one took me a while to read but it was worth it.  I found myself sympathizing with the queen in multiple ways and overall, it did nothing to help with my opinion of the French.  

 

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Hippie Chic

Found this gorgeous, vintage leather tooled bag sitting on a shelf all alone last weekend.  I knew if I took it home, it would be fast friends with my other purses.  It clearly wanted to go home with me with a price of $15.  :)

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The caftan I'm wearing is from Ross and was $10.  I get all my caftans/ coverups from Ross.  :)

Eat Pray Love. Whatever.

I had heard good things about this book for years.  I had high hopes that it might give me some wisdom or insight into handling life problems or getting a better outlook on life in general.  I had my doubts around page 35 when the author loses all her money then gets it all back the next day so she can go and pursue her dreams, but I powered through.  Made it to page 48 and threw the book away.  She just HAD to slip in a one liner about her political beliefs.  A nasty, false one liner that can easily be applied to her party of choice (glass houses...).  I'm so sick of this.  There was no reason to add the sentence.  She just did it to make a dig and to try and influence people.  It doesn't help the story at all.  It's completely irrelevant to what she's trying to say.  It left a bad taste in my mouth and now I will never know if the book contains some wisdom for me.  Probably not.  I figured out the kind of person she was from page nine and I don't really buy stories where everything just seems to fall in place right when it needs to.  That just isn't reality.

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You Being Beautiful

I've got a great Dollar Tree 10 minutes away from my house.  It's big, bright and makes me feel like I'm shopping in a real store (not all dollar stores are created equally...).  On Friday, I managed to get the rest of the Easter candy I needed for Husband's Easter basket, two circle mirrors for sunburst projects I have planned, and this:

A hard cover book originally priced $27?  Um, yeah.  I'm not just gonna let that pass me by...

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