Stamp our passports because we are in VERSAILLES this week talking about Nancy Mitford’s Madame de Pompadour! We’ve got crazy court rules, a charming mistress, wild English sisters, and a few too many Nazis. Join us! Books mentioned: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, Robert K. Massey; Cleopatra: A Life, Stacey Schiff; Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Siegfried Sassoon; The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford; Hons and Rebels, The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford. Links: <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzkbouKG830">Diana Mitford interview</a>, <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fZj6ydAk7k">Jessica Mitford interview</a>. Email us at thatbookpod@gmail.com. Friend us on <a href= "https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/78092395-that-book-podcast"> Goodreads</a> and follow us on <a href="http://instagram.com/thatbookpod">Instagram</a>, <a href= "http://twitter.com/thatbookpod">Twitter</a>, and <a href= "http://facbook.com/thatbookpod">Facebook</a>.

InstaPoetry (Season 2, Episode 7)

That Book is about those books you've always heard of but have no idea what their deal is. Hosted by Hannah Weaver and Michael Goldsmith, readers with high expectations and low standards.