I am posting this in 2010, but this was my final book of 2009. I had high hopes of beating 50 this year, and I definitely could have done it but as is natural, life intervened.Another book club pick. I enjoyed Pope Joan, and if there is even the slightest truth in it, that women dressed as men in order to be educated or to join religious hierarchies, that is pretty amazing.
Historical fiction always makes me happy. The writing was decent, the characters were fairly well developed, but there was just no spark about the book for me. I wouldn't recommend this to someone, but also wouldn't warn against it.
