2011 Book Review #94: Four Queens

Title: Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
Author: Nancy Goldstone
Genre: 13th Century European history
Thingummies: 4

Synopsis: One Provencal family in the 13th century had four daughters, who went on to be Queens of France, England, Germany, and Sicily. A tragic lack of enough names to go around, leading to half the people in the book being named Eleanor, caused them to repeatedly invade Muslim countries in a misguided attempt to discover new girls-names-mines.

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2011 Book Review #95: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Title: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Author: Agatha Christie
Genre: Classic mystery
Thingummies: 2.5

Synopsis: An English house party goes awry when the hostess dies of strychnine poisoning. The twit of a narrator calls in the Belgian detective Poirot to be overly excitable.

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2011 Book Review #96: Eastern Standard Tribe

Title: Eastern Standard Tribe
Author: Cory Doctorow
Genre: Near-future science fiction
Thingummies: 3

Synopsis: A user-interface guru ends up in a mental hospital, possibly because of betrayal.

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