Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

Went to Virginia to visit my sister.  I took my personal copy of Cleopatra so that I would have to read it.  I had started it because Stacy Schiff is coming to speak here.  I felt it was not as an interesting narrative history as some others I have read (Warmth of Other Suns, Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks).  This might have been because of the lack of historical facts about Cleopatra.  On my way to Virginia, I left the book in a restroom at Detroit airport, and did not have enough time to go back because I needed to catch my next plane. I thought - now I don't have to read it.  However, I think anyone interested in the real Cleopatra should read it.  Schiff uses the historical record to describe what Cleopatra's life must have been like in the absence of historical record.