Book Dump

So I realized a few days ago that I hadn’t been keeping up with reviews of the books I’ve been reading, which is something I was really intending to do. I’ve found so many good authors lately that I really wanted to share the love in the hopes that some of you might decide to try them. Anyways, for the sake of getting it done, I’m going to do three of them here, because I read them all in a row, and they actually kind of fit well together. They’re all either biographies or autobiographies of strong female figures, and even though I do gravitate toward historical fiction, it’s been a while since I’ve read so many in a row.

( Memoirs of Cleopatra, Anna and the Kind of Siam, The Sound of Music )

All these books basically have one theme in common – they place strong women in the driver’s seat and let them role. Be it a queen, a governess, or a wife and mother, each of these women demonstrated amazing strength and fortitude, and they did whatever it took to protect whatever was most dear to them. Whether it was a country, an ideal, or a family, these women fought for what they believed in and, in some way, changed the course of history for the better.