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Title: Booke of Days
Review: Considering Americans excel in the creation of historical fiction - particularly in motion pictures - I find it astounding that they should complain of the book's inaccuracies.It's fiction. It's a novel. But, by God, it's beautifully written. Rivele writes so keenly and convincingly the story was quite easy to visualise and I loved the journal format, being a journal writer myself as well as being a keen reader of history. I was immediately grasped by the power of his characters (how Roger wrote of his love for his wife and his faith), bound by the path of his story and was so upset when I finished that I promptly began it again.If you're a historian looking for a gripe, then no doubt you'll hate it. However, if it's words, language and storytelling you truly love then this book is surely The Holy Grail.
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