tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post6362745988066226671..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Lissa Evans, author of Crooked Heart, interviewed by by Louisa YoungMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-66919407904260412792014-11-28T16:44:35.736+00:002014-11-28T16:44:35.736+00:00Coincidentally I'm in the middle of this wonde...Coincidentally I'm in the middle of this wonderful book and couldn't be enjoying it more! Makes you want to savour every sentence...Jennie Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18302976546168011107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-81117312686689480722014-11-27T17:45:00.288+00:002014-11-27T17:45:00.288+00:00I'm off to look this up immediately... Thank y...I'm off to look this up immediately... Thank you, both.Ann Turnbullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06484265041343702129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-14632146597043923102014-11-27T15:35:52.343+00:002014-11-27T15:35:52.343+00:00Funny, historical and "morally shaky"? S...Funny, historical and "morally shaky"? Sounds delightful. Thanks for the interview.Y S Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18330808933361167527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-60821847410848439922014-11-27T10:28:11.715+00:002014-11-27T10:28:11.715+00:00I. Claudius had its moments of comedy too. But I a...I. Claudius had its moments of comedy too. But I agree in general.Mary Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-61803259926274076852014-11-27T10:24:10.969+00:002014-11-27T10:24:10.969+00:00Thanks for this - I'll be looking up 'Croo...Thanks for this - I'll be looking up 'Crooked Heart.'<br />Funny + Historical? - Try Tom Holt's 'The Walled Orchard' - written from the POV of a comedy playwright in Ancient Athens. The narrator takes a scathingly bitter, funny view of his city and fellow citizens - and this makes the history all the more vivid and real. Instead of the usual, stars-in-the-eyes view of 'the glory that was Greece', you get a 'dog-shit-on-the-sandals' view which is instantly recognisable from the 21st Century.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.com