Un! My plan for the rest of my life and then some...

I love historical fiction, by all types of authors. But Philippa Gregory is one of my favorites. I do have to say I hate that everyone only know her as the woman who wrote The Other Boleyn Girl when really her other books were much better. I also heard the movie sucked. The book I just finished by her is called Wideacre. It's set around 17th century England, and its the tale of this family who owns a private estate deep in the country. Now the mom and the dad have two children. One of them the girl, is crazily power hungry and will do everything she can to ensure that the estate lives on and that her children will be the ones to receive it. The boy on the other hand, happens to be the weakling of the family as well as a masochist. So the girl, Lacey, falls in love with this farm boy, and starts sleeping with him. She tells him how she wants to own Wideacre, and he wacks her pop so she can do that. But it turns out that that's not what she meant, and she gets all pissy and decides to chop the farm boys legs off. But before that her brother catches the two of them going at it, and hes not very happy to say the least. So anyway. The brother gets married, and the sister gets married, and the mom is just a widow. Did I mention that this whole time the brother and sister are sleeping together? Well they are, and one day the mom catches THEM going at it, and again, she;s not very happy and is going to tell the spouses. So of course Lacey has to kill her mom. Now I don't want to give away the ending, but I will tell you that everybody dies and Lacey doesn't end up getting what she wanted. :D Now my thoughts on this whole shenanigans is this: Power hungry women suffer and make sacrafices, occasionally human sacrafices, but rarely get what they want. Elizabeth 1 became one of the most powerful queens in the history of history, but she was also known as the Virgin Queen. Cleopatra was another powerful queen, and she ends up commiting suicide at a ripe young age. What is with all of these successful young women and dying! Hilary Clinton had to be humiliated and go through an extremely public scandal, because of a man's mistake I might add, all so she could not be elected president! I realize she isn't dead yet, but one day.... My point is, when she dies, who are we supposed to look up to? Where are the powerful women role models? Although impressive, I don't think Madonna and Cher really count. Which is why one day I plan to take over the world.