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Michelle Moran: “Madame Tussaud”

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Madame Tussaud book by Michelle Moran

Good heavens, I have seriously fallen out of my reading habit. I used to read one or two books a month and now I find my mind far too preoccupied to read half as frequently. A tad bit ironic how I had to leave the corporate world to come to understand the real meaning of work, sweat and labor and no, I wouldn’t trade it for a million shining jewels but alas, it is high time to get back into reading.

Are you reading enough? I don’t mean news articles, blog posts, or the stuff in that Inbox. I mean real solid books — or virtual ones that come on your iPhone, Kindle (loved reading Dumas on the Kindle) or iPad or favorite electronic gadget. Books with a beginning, middle and an end. Books that have always been the basis of all education and knowledge, among other things. [Read more…] about Michelle Moran: “Madame Tussaud”

Michelle Moran: “The Heretic Queen”

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Reading The Heretic Queen in London Paddington Station

“I am sure that if I sat in a quiet place, away from the palace and the bustle of the court, I could remember scenes from my childhood much earlier than six years old.”
– Prologue to “The Heretic Queen”

I wish there were still a thousand more pages to read but alas I have finished reading all of Michelle Moran’s fantastic fiction! I could not have imagined a more fulfilling journey through time back to Ancient Egypt than the one taken through Moran’s genuine voice and her simple yet beautiful prose. “The Heretic Queen” tells the story of young Nefertari which takes place nearly half a century following Nefertiti‘s reign. [Read more…] about Michelle Moran: “The Heretic Queen”

Michelle Moran: “Cleopatra’s Daughter”

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Reading Michelle Moran in MontrealWhat did I do on a 4-day vacation in Montreal in September? We came to Canada a few days before Toronto International Film Festival and Montreal was the obvious traveler’s guide choice in which to spend a few late summer days. We walked countless miles every day, and while I found the people warm and the climate superb and the food choices plenty, I was slightly bored with the city. So we hit the coffee shops and fancy Chinese tea spots and the Hyatt lounge far too frequently. In these hours over tea or espresso, I voraciously read through the 427-page fantastic tale of Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran.   [Read more…] about Michelle Moran: “Cleopatra’s Daughter”

Michelle Moran: “Nefertiti”

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Reading Nefertiti by Michelle Moran in ArgentinaThe most magnificent films of our time would be hard pressed in creating the visual images Michelle Moran stirs up with her powerful words, from a history that existed over three thousand years ago, a kingdom that ruled in the heart of Egypt in an unstable period, and a queen that was so beautiful and graceful that eternity indeed remembers her, as she had desperately hoped it would. “Nefertiti” is compulsively readable and a treasure of historical fiction to behold. [Read more…] about Michelle Moran: “Nefertiti”

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