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Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

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informative slow-paced

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History is only as accurate as those who record it, and that goes double when the subject is a woman. 

This was such a fun book. It’s been such a long time since I had so much fun reading a book. I think this book got me out of my reading slump a bit. I also learned a lot about different women throughout history. A lot of them, I hadn’t heard of, which surprised me. I learned that history is not kind to women and it’s so unfortunate and frankly, it’s quite irritating. But that’s a topic for another day. 

This book was divided into different categories: warriors, usurpers, schemers, survivors, partiers, floozies and mad women. Each section had many different stories about women who were in these categories. I didn’t keep a list of my favorites because to be honest, all the women were my favorites. Each woman gave something to history, whether it was positive or negative. 

With non fiction books, I look for readability. This means: was the book easy to read? Did I understand the language? (Some non fiction books like to show off how smart they are and use big terms for simple things)  Did I retain the information? The answer to all these questions is yes. The book was organized well. Things were not repeated. If they were, it was to show comparison between women. The categories helped with the organization quite a bit. This book was also written in a fun way. There were bits of sass from the author, especially when there was a lot of misogyny happening, which was all the time. I wouldn’t mind reading more from this author because she made this topic fun. 

Overall, I highly recommend this book. Especially if you are looking to broaden your horizons and learn about women of history. You will learn a lot about women and how much history has slighted them. The way the author writes this book will charm you. This book was great fun and I can’t wait to check out more work by this author. 
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