Judith Merkle Riley (1942–2010)
Autore di A Vision of Light
Sull'Autore
Judith Merkle Riley is a professor of political science at Claremont McKenna College.
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Judith Merkle Riley, née Judith Astria Merkle. Please do not combine with Judith Riley.
Serie
Opere di Judith Merkle Riley
2006 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Riley, Judith Astria Merkle
- Data di nascita
- 1942-01-14
- Data di morte
- 2010-09-12
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA (birth)
- Luogo di nascita
- York, Maine, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Claremont, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Livermore, California, USA
- Istruzione
- University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
- Attività lavorative
- historical novelist
Professor of Government - Breve biografia
- Born on January 14, 1942, Judith Astria Merkle grew up in Livermore, California. Her great-grandfather was a Swiss emigrant, who moved to the United States in 1860. Her uncle was the famous baseball player Fred Merkle. Her father, Theodore Charles Merkle was controller of Project Pluto; and her brother Ralph C. Merkle is technological professor at a computer science school. Judith held a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and taught in the Department of Government at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. She wrote six historical novels, including three in a series featuring the character Margaret of Ashbury.
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Judith Merkle Riley, née Judith Astria Merkle. Please do not combine with Judith Riley.
Utenti
Discussioni
Historical Fiction-Illiterate Medieval woman dictates life story to a scribe in Name that Book (Luglio 2010)
Recensioni
A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel di Judith Merkle Riley
There are lots of tropes I truly hate in this book: rape, abuse, death of a child, incest, death of a spouse, men with too much power hurting women and children and lots more - and still, I love this book. Margaret is such a beautiful person, I fell in love with her. Five stars.
En la Inglaterra medieval, Margaret, la joven esposa de un rico terrateniente, dicta a un fraile el relato de su insólita vida. Hija de una pobre familia campesina, a los catorce años se vio obligada a casarse con un viudo, adquirió habilidades de curandera, fue acusada de brujería y estuvo a punto de morir a manos de la Inquisición.
Series Info/Source: This is a stand alone book. I bought this book for my Kindle.
Thoughts: I am setting this aside 25% of the way in. I appreciate the writing style and the humorous tone to Susanna's portions of the book. However, there are long chapters in this book that deal with random aristocracy characters and how they summoned a demon to take down the royalty in the country. There are a ton of characters in these chapters and it is hard to follow both all the characters and what is driving the story forward.
The portions from Susanna's POV are entertaining; I enjoyed watching her start to make a living for herself selling her paintings (even if she does have to pass them off as her dead husband's). I enjoyed the humor and irony in these portions. Unfortunately, for me, these portions didn't makeup for the long chapters dealing with the other parts of the story. Additionally, this book oddly flips between first and third person...sometimes even mid chapter. This was jarring and made it tough to read.
I would say this book takes some patience to read, which is something I am in short supply of right now. So, out of frustration and just pure boredom, I am setting this aside. It's not an awful book so far, but it is also a bit of a mess format and story-wise. I don't recommend picking this up unless you have the time and patience to struggle through some odd writing and some less interesting (and more confusing) story/character elements.
My Summary (3/5): Overall this wasn't for me. Susanna's parts of the story were good but the other half of the story was confusing, full of too many characters, and boring. I didn't have the patience to make it through this. I may pick it up at some point in the future and I also may checkout some other books by Riley since I did enjoy her writing style in general.… (altro)
Thoughts: I am setting this aside 25% of the way in. I appreciate the writing style and the humorous tone to Susanna's portions of the book. However, there are long chapters in this book that deal with random aristocracy characters and how they summoned a demon to take down the royalty in the country. There are a ton of characters in these chapters and it is hard to follow both all the characters and what is driving the story forward.
The portions from Susanna's POV are entertaining; I enjoyed watching her start to make a living for herself selling her paintings (even if she does have to pass them off as her dead husband's). I enjoyed the humor and irony in these portions. Unfortunately, for me, these portions didn't makeup for the long chapters dealing with the other parts of the story. Additionally, this book oddly flips between first and third person...sometimes even mid chapter. This was jarring and made it tough to read.
I would say this book takes some patience to read, which is something I am in short supply of right now. So, out of frustration and just pure boredom, I am setting this aside. It's not an awful book so far, but it is also a bit of a mess format and story-wise. I don't recommend picking this up unless you have the time and patience to struggle through some odd writing and some less interesting (and more confusing) story/character elements.
My Summary (3/5): Overall this wasn't for me. Susanna's parts of the story were good but the other half of the story was confusing, full of too many characters, and boring. I didn't have the patience to make it through this. I may pick it up at some point in the future and I also may checkout some other books by Riley since I did enjoy her writing style in general.… (altro)
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- Popolarità
- #8,834
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 80
- ISBN
- 118
- Lingue
- 8
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