October 15, 2010

Challenge - Day 14

A non-fictional book

I love to read historical fiction where a fictional character is written into a story from history. It makes the historical event seem more real to know that there were common people involved that you will never know about. It makes me wonder, what were those people like?

But there is one historical book that I loved: Nicholas and Alexandria by Robert Massie. I have always been fascinated by this last Tsar of Russia and his family. Of course part of that is I think he was a very handsome man, but he was also devoted to his family. The Russian aristocracy has always intrigued me and one day I would love to visit St. Petersberg, Russia.

1 comment:

anne marie in philly said...

I tend to read bios/autobios. right now I am reading a book about harry truman's presidency; and OMG, the parallels between then and now are astounding!