Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Memoirs of a Byzantine Eunuch--#16 finished

This is a book that has been on my shelves for probably about 15 years if I had to guess.  One of those library sale pickups for a quarter or 50 cents that looked interesting so bought it.  I finally got around to reading it and conflicting opinions on it.  Lots of history that author supposedly tried to stay true to but also a ton of debauchery and basically awful behavior by almost everyone in the book.  It is about Constantinople in late 800s or maybe early 900s.  Emperors, church, warring parties and a lot of what has were like vs have nots.  Interesting reading but still a lot that seemed put into the novel for shock's sake too.

There were no copies in PBS & I have already posted it in system.  Will see if it goes anywhere.

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