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Borgia is a miniseries just like The Tudors. (There is also a miniseries on Showtime titled ‘The Borgias.’)…
“I, Elizabeth,” by Rosalind Miles, tells the story of Queen Elizabeth I in the style of an autobiography.…
After finishing The Tudors miniseries, I eagerly dove into The Kennedys, as one of my good friends had…
Sex and death are inextricably linked in this Showtime series on King Henry XIII. From his first wife,…
If we could shrink the Earth’s population to a village of 100 people, with all existing human ratios stayng the…
In the end, the only thing we have in abundance is the memory we have woven. Each of us chooses…
“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” tells the story of Oscar Wao, a shy, nerdy, overweight and sometimes…
“The Map of Love,” by Ahdaf Soueif, is an intricately-weaved story of love across place, time and ethnicity.…
Let me begin with, Isabel Allende is so underrated. I have blogged about her books before–namely, “Daughter of…