Booking Through Thursday: Biggest

Q: What’s the biggest book you’ve read recently? (Feel free to think “big” as size, or as popularity, or in any other way you care to interpret.)

A: I would have to say the book I am reading now is the biggest for one reason, that it is a nonfiction, and it is through the whole span of the British monarchs. It is "Royal Affairs", a lusty romp through the extramarital adventures that rocked the British Monarchy by sweetheart author Leslie Carroll. The reason it is big is it covers almost anything and everything that I ever had questions about. From Henry II and Rosamund de Clifford to present day Prince of Wales Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. I love this book for the fact that it is fact and that it is broken down by sections of royal houses. It is a great read for an ADD reader like myself. Even though I am not finished it is the biggest read because it covers all the dirty affairs through out history.

"Insatiable kings, lecherous queens, kissing cousins, and wanton consorts—history has never been so much fun.
Royal unions have always been the stuff of scintillating gossip, from the passionate Plantagenets to Henry VIII’s alarming head count of wives and mistresses, to the Sapphic crushes of Mary and Anne Stuart right on up through the scandal-blighted coupling of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Thrown into loveless, arranged marriages for political and economic gain, many royals were driven to indulge their pleasures outside the marital bed, engaging in delicious flirtations, lurid love letters, and rampant sex with voluptuous and willing partners."

"This nearly pathological lust made for some of the most titillating scandals in Great Britain’s history. Hardly harmless, these affairs have disrupted dynastic alliances, endangered lives, and most of all, fed the salacious curiosity of the public for centuries. Royal Affairs will satiate that curiosity by bringing this arousing history alive."