Ashley Marchand

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Ashley.


101 Essays That W...
Ashley Marchand is currently reading
by Brianna Wiest (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Book cover for The Silent Patient
Murderous rage, homicidal rage, is not born in the present. It originates in the land before memory, in the world of early childhood, with abuse and mistreatment, which builds up a charge over the years, until it explodes
Loading...
Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
“And for all he begrudged Sophia Dorothea her murky birth, George got an early start on making his own pack of illegitimate children, knocking up one of his sibling’s governesses when he was just 16 years old. His mother warned him “not to have his name bawled from the housetops as the progenitor of bastards.”
Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
“The duke married her anyway, but life with this millionairess didn’t prove any better than with the last one. Gladys once brought a revolver to dinner and, when asked why, remarked, “Oh, I don’t know, I might just shoot Marlborough.” Hubby had her committed,”
Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
“But after the boozy excess of the ’80s came the swift and devastating hangover of the ’90s.”
Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
“She’d always had a taste for luxury (this was the woman who had brought her servants and a bathtub to the front lines while serving as a nurse in World War I),”
Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
“was the first sultan to marry a concubine in three centuries; moreover, Roxolana was the first slave concubine in the history of the Ottoman Empire to be freed and made a legal wife.”
Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

year in books
Kelly N...
2,878 books | 361 friends

Anne Tomyn
437 books | 57 friends

Beatriz...
645 books | 41 friends

Avril
417 books | 43 friends

Erin Mu...
621 books | 88 friends

Marissa...
119 books | 48 friends

Kayla W...
205 books | 103 friends

Brittan...
28 books | 2 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Ashley

Lists liked by Ashley