This was a really amazing read and I know everyone's first comment is that a female can't be Pope, but the truth is this woman becomes Pope by pretending she is a male her whole life. The story starts with her as a young girl whose older brother begins to teach her her lessons. She has an incredibly stunted father who doesn't believe woman should learn so they have to keep everything secret. Basically this girl is incredibly intelligent and curious to learn but she keeps running into these incredibly huge obstacles because no one is used to a girl being this intelligent, they think it's pretty much the work of the devil. Finally she takes over her brothers persona and the whole world opens up for her. It is a really interesting read, as said before, the only thing that annoyed me is the names of the characters. They were awkward to say and that totally annoys me! lol
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Pope Joan
This was a really amazing read and I know everyone's first comment is that a female can't be Pope, but the truth is this woman becomes Pope by pretending she is a male her whole life. The story starts with her as a young girl whose older brother begins to teach her her lessons. She has an incredibly stunted father who doesn't believe woman should learn so they have to keep everything secret. Basically this girl is incredibly intelligent and curious to learn but she keeps running into these incredibly huge obstacles because no one is used to a girl being this intelligent, they think it's pretty much the work of the devil. Finally she takes over her brothers persona and the whole world opens up for her. It is a really interesting read, as said before, the only thing that annoyed me is the names of the characters. They were awkward to say and that totally annoys me! lol
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Glad you liked it. You just never know how a book is going to hit someone. Emma has been asking me about my all time favorite books and so I had her read Water for Elephants and then The Bean Trees. She LOVED Water, but Bean Trees, not so much! It is okay not to love what others love I tell her!! Okay...so what do I need to do to post my latest reads on here??
how could you not like bean trees?? that was such a cute read.
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