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I know this Broke and Bookish topic is a few weeks away, but by then it will no longer be relevant-so Top Ten Books I Wouldn't Mind for the 1 in 75,000 Years Convergence of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving 1. Hild by Nicola Griffith 2. The Lowlands by Jhumpa Lahiri 3. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert 4. The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne M. Valente 5. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney 6. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 7. How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ 8. The Collected Works of Katherine Phillips vols. one and two (out of print) 9. The Annotated Persuasion by Jane Austen, David M. Shepard(or the annotated version of any of Jane Austen's books) 10. Or any other awesome historical, literary, science fiction, and/or fantasy work that I might enjoy

30. Mary Boleyn: Mistress of Kings by Alison Weir I've been fascinated with Mary Boleyn since I learned of her existence. Everybody knows the story of her sister, Anne Boleyn, whose charms caused the king of England, Henry VIII, to divorce his first wife and break with the Roman Catholic Church in order to marry her. Everyone also knows the sad end of that story, which culminated in Anne becoming the first of Henry's six wives to be beheaded. But what is known about Mary? Nothing much, until more recently, with the release of Philippa Gregory's bestselling novel The Other Boleyn Girl . Alison Weir points out that it is this novel, and the movies of the same name, along with the "Tudors" television series, that have propelled Mary out of obscurity, and into what Weir claims is undeserved notoriety. While I am a huge fan of Gregory's novel, it was not my first encounter with Mary Boleyn. My first knowledge of her stems from a book that is significant in

29. The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory. Narrated by Bianca Amato and Graeme Malcolm. When I first started listening, I was afraid I had gotten the wrong tape. The description was of a young woman begging for a cross, and receiving one from a hated Englishman. She was about to be burned at the stake, and a king whom she had saved would not save her--how did I accidentally get an audio about Joan of Arc? But it turns out that instead, Gregory uses Joan of Arc as a guiding narrative force in the life of Margaret Beaufort as she uses the water goddess Melusina as a narrative guide to Elizabeth Woodville's life in The White Queen . I found this devise less annoying, as it was evoked less often, and presented more as Margaret's imagination than a "true legend." I personally enjoyed The Red Queen far more than I did The White Queen . Gregory's true triumph here is the character of Margaret Beaufort. There are few deviations from her narration, and these are read