This is all about the trials. It tells how they started, details about the different people and trials and what came after. Some parts were interesting to me, but sometimes it was just more of the same facts with another trial so similar to the one before. It's crazy and scary that something like...
I have never read this author's previous books, but have to say that I probably won't read any of her other works if they are set up like this. History is a dry subject, but the way this was structured made it even more in my opinion. Stacy Schiff takes a look at Salem, Massachusetts during it's wit...
For some reason an ad for this book suddenly started appearing on Youtube. An ad that seemed to imply it was just coming out when, in fact it has been out for almost a year. Either way, the ad, which was an interview with the author, got me very interested to know more.Non-fiction books must be very...
Sometimes I forget how I heard about certain books and why they made it onto my TRL (To Read List) but a lot of the time I just see a blurb about a book somewhere and it peaks my interest. That's what happened with The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff. As the title suggests, it's about the witch...
This book, a historical account of the Salem witch trials by an author whose prior work has been highly acclaimed, turned out to be a long-winded and tedious disappointment. I regret the many hours I spent slogging through it.Schiff takes a textbook-like approach to the writing, throwing facts and a...
Loved this - very readable, fascinating look at the life and times of Cleopatra, and by extension, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Augustus.Schiff explains the context for Cleopatra's life: the history of Cleopatra's family as rulers of Egypt, and what it meant to rule in Egypt, especially alongside...
I can’t remember the last time I read an honest to God biography, so either it’s been a really long time or whatever it was was so unmemorable that my brain has erased it from my memory banks. Last autobiography? Easy: Benjamin Franklin. And I read memoirs all the time. But biographies, man, they’re...
This book was fascinating, and reading it was an interesting experience.This is the first book I've read by Ms. Schiff, and it took me more than half of the book to come to appreciate her writing style. It seemed for much of the book as though she wasn't sure of who her audience was. Ms. Schiff us...
Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: A Life is speculative, board-line revisionist history. It is unabashedly pro-Cleopatra. Schiff looks at all the historical accounts - many of which did not paint the Egyptian queen in a kindly light - and attempts to distort the image so that the portrait favors her subject...
This was probably one of my more challenging books I've read this year and it is one of my favorite history subjects. Schiff's style of writing was a little hard for me to get into but once I got past the first couple of chapters it was smooth sailing. I totally enjoyed Stacy Schiff's narrative of C...
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