Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past by Elizabeth Boyle

Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past

Elizabeth Boyle

352 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir reflective medium-paced
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Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty. All three happening together brings a moment of reckoning. Medieval historian Elizabeth Boyle made sense of these events the best way she knew how - by imme...

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Moods

reflective 86%
informative 80%
emotional 53%
hopeful 40%
challenging 33%
funny 33%
inspiring 13%
adventurous 6%
dark 6%
mysterious 6%
sad 6%

Pace

medium 75%
slow 16%
fast 8%

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