Empress Orchid
Registered by mrswoo1 of Rugby, Warwickshire United Kingdom on 4/25/2007
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
Blurb: Empress Orchid is a fictional peek into the intrigues of the Forbidden City, based on the true story of China's Last Empress.
To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen year old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperors wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden City. Orchid trains herself in the art of pleasuring a man, bribes her way into the royal bed and seduces the monarch. Little does she know that China will collapse around her and that she will be the last Empress.
I have read this book and found it fascinating !!
To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen year old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperors wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden City. Orchid trains herself in the art of pleasuring a man, bribes her way into the royal bed and seduces the monarch. Little does she know that China will collapse around her and that she will be the last Empress.
I have read this book and found it fascinating !!
Journal Entry 2 by mrswoo1 at Summersault Coffee House and Emporium in Rugby, Warwickshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (4/25/2007 UTC) at Summersault Coffee House and Emporium in Rugby, Warwickshire United Kingdom
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Book to be left on the Book Crossing Bookshelf just inside the shop.
Book to be left on the Book Crossing Bookshelf just inside the shop.
Picked up for my Mum.
I like the lady on the front. Given to my Mum.
Given to me to read. I enjoyed this and found this very interesting, particularly as it said that it was all based on real life - I would love to know just how accurateit was. Such an alien culture.
Journal Entry 6 by Batsheep at The Dream Factory (Playbox Theatre) in Warwick, Warwickshire United Kingdom on Saturday, June 9, 2007
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On a chair in the theatre for this evening performance of The Twits. The girl on the trapeze is terrific.
On a chair in the theatre for this evening performance of The Twits. The girl on the trapeze is terrific.
Journal Entry 7 by Batsheep at The Dream Factory (Playbox Theatre) in Warwick, Warwickshire United Kingdom on Saturday, June 9, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (6/9/2007 UTC) at The Dream Factory (Playbox Theatre) in Warwick, Warwickshire United Kingdom
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On a chair in the theatre for this evening performance of The Twits. The girl on the trapeze is terrific.
On a chair in the theatre for this evening performance of The Twits. The girl on the trapeze is terrific.