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Originally Posted by issybird
I abandoned a book by Emma Southon about Agrippina; I found her style, vulgar and graphic, off-putting and at odds with the subject matter -- aside from being so conjecturable as to be unlikely, at least for me. Nor was I interested in modern day comparisons to the likes of Prince William and Kate Middleton, just as one example. It made my worst of the year list.
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This is not reassuring. I own
A Rome of One's Own in audiobook but haven't listened yet. I was interested to see the author had a podcast (via @astrangerhere's post) but, finding it on Spotify, saw it marked as
Explicit, and lost interest right away. Now I'm seeing your comment and I'm hoping
A Rome ... is not in that style.