Monday, February 1, 2010

Royal Mistress Challenge



The Rules of the Challenge

1.Runs from January 1st, 2010 to December 31st, 2010. But this is an ongoing challenge and I will be renewing it next year.

2.Join anytime during the year – just leave a comment, with a link to your signup post if you do one – you don’t have to! Anyone can join, you don’t have to have a blog.

3.Books can be re-reads, or can overlap with other challenges.

4.If you’d like me to include a link to your review, leave me a comment or email me at: misadventuresofmoppet [at] googlemail [dot] com.

5.Choose your own level. You can change level anytime or change your mind about the books you will read at any time. I noticed other people have fun names for their challenge levels, so here are mine:

Orange Girl – Read one book
Maid of Honour – Read up to three books
Courtesan– Read up to five books
Maitresse en titre – Read up to seven books
Secret Wife – Read more than seven books!

UPDATE: Non-fiction counts towards the challenge! Either general books like Eleanor Herman’s Sex with Kings, or multi-biographies like Antonia Fraser’s Love and Louis XIV, or biographies of individual mistresses or favourites.

I shall begin with the Maid of Honour level .

1. The King's Mistress by Emma Campion
2. Courtesan by Diane Haeger
3. The People's Queen by Vanora Bennett

Challenge Completed

2 comments:

  1. Welcome to the challenge, Cat! Looking forward to your reviews.

    I'm in the Tournament of Reading and French Historicals as well. Nearly did the Tudor Book challenge but I don't think I'll read enough Tudor stuff this year (although I do have Queen of Subtleties out from the library as we speak). I may yet succumb to the Typically British challenge as I really like the idea!

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  2. I have joined this challenge too. We are going for the same level :) Looking forward to your reviews!

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