Comments for Madame Guillotine

Comment on Writing update! by Nicolle

Nicolle — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:12:01 +0000

Wooooow!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m thinking about buying a kindle this year,,, and, yes! I’m definetly reading your books once I do it!
And I gotta say… even loving printed books the way I do, at least here in Brazil they’re just getting more expensive every day! So don’t be upset about not having a publisher, or things like that… Within 5 years almost everyone will have a personal library in theirs tablets!!!

And continue writting, cause I’m sure I’ll love your books and will be extremely annoying, asking more and more books all the time!

Bye!!!

Comment on Writing update! by Madame Guillotine

Madame Guillotine — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:06:10 +0000

Thank you! So you pronounce Versailles as Ver-sales? :)

I’ve always wanted to visit Kentucky – I was insanely into horse racing as a youngster and was always making plans to go to Kentucky and meet Steve Cauthen! ;)

Comment on Writing update! by Madame Guillotine

Madame Guillotine — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:04:31 +0000

Oh you are so sweet – thank you! I’m so glad that you are enjoying the Marie Antoinette book so much. It was definitely intended to be a light hearted romp of a book, with no foreshadowing of what was to come for the poor woman. :)

I am very interested in LaFayette and his family. Adrienne, his wife, sounds like she was a bit of a character! I was very moved to see their graves in the cemetery at Picpus in Paris, beside the two grave pits from the Terror.

I love that you have places named after him. :)

Comment on Victorian book graffiti by Blaadyblah

Blaadyblah — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:51:17 +0000

You prompted me to go check a few old volumes on the shelf but none have more than a name or price. I’ve seen some nice ones in old bookshops though over the years but that is a really lovely example. So tempting to lose a few hours researching the people and places. Not unlike the curiosity old tombstones ignite.

I write in my own books, often also in books I’ve given as gifts. I’ve still got books I inherited from the family bookshelves (or liberated from the charity shop box). My Complete Works of Shakespeare is the copy my Mum took to school in the sixties. I like to think some of my books are only held in trust for when Spawn is old enough to enjoy them.

Comment on Writing update! by David Fry

David Fry — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:31:49 +0000

Sorry I pushed the wrong button and did not let me finish. Anyway our fair city of Louisville,in the state of Kentucky was named after Louis XVI. We have a Fayette county. (We say fay- it county and our city of Versailles we say versails). Any way it is a beautiful state and I find your book also beautiful and I love reading you post, keep up the good work

Comment on Writing update! by David Fry

David Fry — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:21:38 +0000

I have been enjoying very much you Diary of a Princess. After reading all the books about MA fatal end it is most pleasant to read your sweet account of her youth. Sadly I am going slow with it because it is on my phone and takes me time getting used to finding the time. After work for a refresher I head to the nearest Mickie D’s for a dollar and six cent ice tea and will read your book. But you book half way through has been very lovely.
My last pulp read was about Madame LaFayette and her experience during the Revolution. I am now reading an old book about LaFayette himself. His involvement with the royals and the Revolution I found compelling and I was fascinated with him anyway since he helped us during our revolution. (Sorry don’t mean to bring up any ill will here).
Did you know that because of Frances’ aid to our revolution many places have been named in their honor. For instance the ciry I reside is Louisville, Kentucky

Comment on Is this the face of Anne Boleyn? by nokomarie

nokomarie — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:19:11 +0000

I suppose I am free to disbelieve the experts. I think Henry’s sister Mary is a much better match. This lady has everything from ruddy hair to a rather flattish forehead and fair eyebrows, very like Henry.

Comment on Mary, Queen of Scots got her head chopped off by Caroline

Caroline — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:05:49 +0000

I have visited the Throckmorton house and seen that chemise but I’m afraid I see Mary Queen of Scots as a feckle and vain woman who made stupid choices that displayed none of the political astuteness that kept her cousin Elizabeth on the throne. As for the Austen quote, she was known for her wicked sense of humour and she did write that ‘history’ as entertainment for her family, not as a serious historical document so I’m inclined to read it as satire. But the whole cult of personality is interesting – how some figures are idealised and made into heroes when in fact we know very little about them – including our dear Jane who would be surprised at her fame, I think.

Comment on Mary, Queen of Scots got her head chopped off by Tara

Tara — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:52:37 +0000

Oh, I meant “with such gravitas.” Carried away by exclamation points, clearly.

Comment on Mary, Queen of Scots got her head chopped off by Tara

Tara — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:51:26 +0000

As a fan of Mary, myself, I am delighted by the Austen quote!

Re Mary’s continuing appeal, well, some of us (part-Irish, it must be said) do love a martyr. And I feel very much that Mary faced a life where the deck was stacked, and not in her favor. Those Scottish nobles, her half brother chief among them! Her first husband’s untimely death, which propelled Mary to Scotland in the first place! The accusations against Mary for her second husband’s death! How the nobles of Scotland dragged Mary’s son away! It boggles my mind, long years of captivity aside, that Mary survived so long and which such gravitas.