Posted by Dag T. Hoelseth
on 2/7/2009, 20:22:17
62.16.146.63
It has been some time since the last book corner at the ERMB. So I just wonder - what are you reading now? (Has to be royalty-related).
I haven't read much "royal literature" lately, other than the latest issue of Royalty Digest Quarterly, which reached my home at Oppsal in Oslo last week.
But I have bought 2 "new" royal books.
http://www.dast.nu/recension/2-x-gustaf-iv-adolf
2009 is full of anniversaries - for instance Abraham Lincoln, Knut Hamsun and more relevant to this board - it is 200 years since King Gustaf IV Adolf was dethroned.
Yesterday I bought one of two new books on King Gustaf Adolf - Mats Wickman's En kunglig tragedi – en biografi om Gustaf IV Adolf, Stockholm: Fischer & Co., 2009. ISBN: 978-91-85183-62-3. 233 p.
I also bought - finally! - Tor Bomann-Larsen's fourth biography about King Haakon VII and Queen Maud. Don't know why I haven't bought it earlier. Had hoped to get it for Christmas 2008, but received other nice gifts instead.
In addition, I also bought a guidebook about Montenegro and Bosnia-Hercegovina, as this summer trip goes to Balkan. Not too relevant, but Montenegro was after all a former monarchy, and I hope to visit Cetinje and the royal palace and graves. I believe there was an article about this in Royalty Digest Quarterly some time ago - could someone help me with the reference? Thanks in advance.
So, what about you - what are your latest additions to your royal library, and what are you currently reading?
DTH