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- Reflected in You (45)
- A Crossfire Novel
- By Sylvia Day
- Reading since Oct 18, 2012
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- King Hereafter (12)
- By Dorothy Dunnett
- Reading since Oct 9, 2011
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- The Stolen Crown (2)
- The Secret Marriage That Forever Changed the Fate of England
- By Susan Higginbotham
- Reading since Sep 29, 2011
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- Le confessioni di Caterina De' Medici (60)
- By C. W. Gortner
- Reading since Jun 24, 2011
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Le confessioni di Caterina De' Medici

Finora mi è piacuto, ero arrivata quasi alla fine ma mi sono bloccata. Come purtroppo mi succede alcune volte ho perso interesse nella storia. Non mi piace quando succede ma non mi piace neanche dovermi sforzare per arrivare alla fine. Ogni libro ha un suo momento, e questo non era quello per Cateri ... (continue)

Finora mi è piacuto, ero arrivata quasi alla fine ma mi sono bloccata. Come purtroppo mi succede alcune volte ho perso interesse nella storia. Non mi piace quando succede ma non mi piace neanche dovermi sforzare per arrivare alla fine. Ogni libro ha un suo momento, e questo non era quello per Caterina de Medici. Lo riprenderò sicuramente, prima o poi.

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- Touch the Dark (102)
- Cassandra Palmer Series, Book 1
- By Karen Chance
- Reading since May 12, 2011
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- A Fistful of Charms (103)
- By Kim Harrison
- Reading since Jan 30, 2011
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- Passion (8)
- By Jude Morgan
- Reading since Jan 6, 2011
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- Avoiding Commitment (2)
- By K.A. Linde
- Finished on Oct 7, 2012
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- Thoughtless (17)
- By S.C. Stephens
- Finished on Oct 2, 2012
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- Katherine (54)
- By Anya Seton
- Finished on Aug 16, 2012
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- Backstage Pass (19)
- Sinners on Tour
- By Olivia Cunning
- Finished on Jun 23, 2012
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- Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel (65)
- By Sylvia Day
- Finished on Jun 19, 2012
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- Forever Amber (18)
- By Kathleen Winsor
- Finished on May 8, 2012
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- Blood Of The Rose (2)
- By Anya Bast
- Finished on Feb 10, 2012
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- The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn (16)
- By Eric Ives
- Finished on Feb 5, 2012
  
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The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn

Here Anne Boleyn is, in all her magnificence and tragedy. I had read a lot about the Tudors before starting this, so I had clear in my mind who was who, and what part did they took in the course of History, so I was able to enjoy all the speculations and all the links Ives made. A lot has been told ... (continue)

Here Anne Boleyn is, in all her magnificence and tragedy. I had read a lot about the Tudors before starting this, so I had clear in my mind who was who, and what part did they took in the course of History, so I was able to enjoy all the speculations and all the links Ives made. A lot has been told and written concerning Anne Boleyn, and she doesn't always come out well portrayed, partly because of her complexity, partly because of the discordant sources concerning her life, her character and her actions. Some authors, being their writings fiction or non-fiction, seems to see her only as an instrument of her ambitious family, a fragile woman who has been manipulated in taking the heart of a king but wasn't able to hold it; her death being caused by her inability to give a son to her husband, who tired of her, decided to condemn her. I sincerly hope, and believe, that there must have been something more. Of course we know that passional love, the one that awakens all your instincts, that is like a storm, strong and powerful from the beginning, in most cases isn't made to last, because it overwhelms you, it makes you do things you would never have tought to do, and it's an all taking. When it ends, it leaves you empty, angry, broken. But from acknowledging the distruction that this kind of love leave, to believe that Henry was able to kill the very person for whom he had changed all the rule of his kingdom, for whom he had destroyed his marriage and started the Reformation is, neverthless, believing that he was guided only by his impulses and emotions. I believe, like Ives does, that there was more behind Anne's downfall. Of course, had she given him the so-waited child, and had their love lasted, maybe she could have saved herself, but other things were involved in her ruin. Anne was well learned, ambitious, intelligent, bold, she wasn't just henry's mistress or wife, she was his counsellor, and this frightened the ones belonging to the anti-boleyn faction, afraid of losing their power or being moved away from their position. Cromwell in primis had nothing to lose, and everything to earn from Anne's disappearing from the scene. He started as her ally, but as their ideas and ideals started parting, he became her first detractor, and later enemy. The idea that her enemies were ready to strike but lacked of proofs and that her very words caused her downfall is interesting and most sad. As Ives describes her trial and the evidences that leads the charge against Anne, it appears clear that she was framed, guilty only of having a certain amount of power and influence towards Henry. Sure there is more that we don't know, and probably we never will, concerning Anne's life. Ives, as an authoritative historian, puts concrete facts in his theories, basing on recognized truths and possible motives, drawing the aspects of a woman that was remarkable and marked the turning point in English history.

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