Joan of Arc: A Life (Penguin Lives)

Excellent bio with a overdue feminist viewpoint of this insistenly mysterious & fascinating young woman. Her referneces to literature of authors that have taken her on in various forms illustrates her sound scholarship. Also, as a very Catholic writer & novelist, she adds her own intellectual critique of the Church without confusion. A fine adn not lenghty selection for any book club energizing our group of women with Jewsih, Catholic, and humanist Protestant sects in ther backgound.

Good Histroy

Brilliant story-telling that flows.

Tedious; have read better biographies.

Good

Very satisfied.

I'm reading this as an audiobook and keep puzzling over Mari Devon's pronunciations of familiar words and names. Find it distracting.

Poorly written book by an English professor that seems to think showing off her English writing skills, fancy words and drawn out descriptions, is a good thing. She also does a poor job of presenting the life story in a believable, well laid out manner. She seemed to jump back and forth from what seemed like a well researched, true history of Joan to a fictional extrapolation or imagination of what people dreamed up to make Joan a appear as a famous person.