Don't you hate when you pick up a book, get sucked into the plot, and then drop everything else you're doing? That's what happened with me and the most recent book I've read: The Accidental Empress. Historical fiction, based upon the life of Queen Elisabeth of Austria... My God, I picked the book up and I couldn't put it down until I finished it.
I'm working on an book review. The kind I usually do, a slightly more professional review, which I will have ready either tomorrow or Monday.
In the meantime, get your library card out, log into your local public library, and put in a request for The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki. (When I placed my request, I was number 43 on the waitlist. As word about this book spreads, it's going to be harder to find.)
Now that I have been rudely ripped out of the 1860's and rudely popped back into the 21st century, I need to readjust to life in this century.
And I need to adjust myself to the fact that Sisi lived well over 150 years ago, and that I will never get to meet her. I believe I would have been just as enchanted by her as her subjects were.
*sigh* I want to go visit Vienna and Budapest in the late 1800's.
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